An Australian comedian has revealed how he was squatting in Kanye West’s mansion for an entire week without anyone noticing.
In early 2023, Jewish documentary filmmaker, satirist and author John Safran spent seven days at the rapper’s home in Calabasas, California, after traveling from Melbourne to Los Angeles to investigate a series of anti-Semitic comments made by the rapper.
He revealed on HIT FM’s Carrie and Tommy radio show how he managed to get onto the property, a 320-acre abandoned property in Calabasas that was previously home to West’s famous ‘Sunday Service’.
John explained how one night he realized he needed to stay on the property to write a book about the experience, which he later titled Squat.
“I think part of it was because he (Kanye) stopped paying his security staff and neighbors told me they hadn’t seen him there for months and months,” John explained.
“I needed a writers’ retreat and he had supported Hitler at the time, so I went to Los Angeles and New York to catch up with people in his circle who had opinions on hand.”
Safran said getting onto the property was easier than it first seemed.
‘There is a big door and behind it there is a forest. You keep walking and the fence ends and the bushes start, so you just slide through that and go down this bank and there’s a stream,’ he explained.
‘You go through the forest behind and then you reach the back of the mansion. I went to move the sliding glass door and it was open.
An Australian comedian has revealed how he was squatting in Kanye West’s mansion for an entire week. In the photo, John Safran.
Juan told him alphabet He had not traveled to Los Angeles with the intention of occupying Kanye’s mansion.
“But once I got there and talked to people, it became clear that the most interesting (thread) to me was the story of Jewish Americans and Black Americans: how they have been allies but also clashed,” he explained.
‘(During interviews) I learned that a squatter had previously stayed at a school that Kanye had set up and then abandoned. That started the idea.
“I found out from the neighbors that they hadn’t seen him there for quite some time.”
Kanye bought the ranch while he was still married to Kim Kardashian, and their divorce was officially finalized in November 2022.
The singer initially purchased the property in 2018 and used it for the Sunday service and headquarters of Donda Academy, an unaccredited private Christian school for preschool through 12th grade.
Kanye reportedly lived at the property with his then-model girlfriend Irina Shayk.
There are reportedly two guesthouses on the property with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in total.
In early 2023, Jewish documentary filmmaker, satirist and author John Safran spent seven days at the rapper’s home in Calabasas, California, after traveling from Melbourne to Los Angeles to investigate a series of anti-Semitic comments made by the rapper.
The domes on the property, now gone, were 50-foot ‘Ye Ecosystems’.
West built the domes through the architecture arm of his Yeezy brand, called Yeezy Home, which he launched in 2018. “We’re looking for architects and industrial designers who want to improve the world,” he said at the time.
Photographs taken of the property in July of this year show that the complex is abandoned and now completely in ruins.
Photos taken of Kanye’s property in Calabasas in July of this year show that the complex is abandoned and now completely in ruins.