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Kanye West celebrated his wife Bianca Censori’s 30th birthday over the weekend with a lavish party in the Maldives. Holidays abroad are quickly becoming second nature for the eccentric couple, who have spent the last few months in Tokyo as Ye continues to face mounting legal problems in the United States.
The Australian architect celebrated her milestone birthday on Sunday in a luxury island destination. In photos and videos shared from the event, Censori was seen wearing a black suit with a deep, plunging neckline, while her rapper husband donned an all-black jacket and pants.
The ‘Gold Digger’ artist, 47, shared a passionate kiss with Censori next to what appeared to be a huge traditional wedding cake, and even climbed a white ladder to pack on the PDA for his guests.
Censori also hit the dance floor with her friends, including Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz and Australian basketball star Elizabeth Cambage.
Of course, absent from the festivities were West’s four children he shares with ex-wife Kim Kardashian: North, 11, Saint, nine, Chicago, six, and Psalm, five. The Skims founder even went so far as to label herself a “single mom” nearly four years after her divorce from West was finalized.
The Yeezy designer has since been banned from the entertainment industry following an anti-Semitic rant and has become the center of lawsuits accusing him of rape, sexual harassment and facilitating a hostile workplace.
Despite West’s mounting legal problems, the couple, who married in January 2023, have recently put on happy faces while traveling through the Japanese capital.
But are the couple’s new habits simply a facade to escape the legal drama that awaits them in the United States? Or does West have valid concerns about his safety upon his return to American soil?
Kanye West, 47, and Bianca Censori, 30, share a passionate kiss during the Australian architect’s birthday party.
Censori Dons Black Jumpsuit With Plunging Neckline For Star-Studded Birthday Party
Censori shares snapshots of her 30th birthday celebration on an island in the Maldives
Explosive lawsuit from former assistant awaits West in California
Lauren Pisciotta, an influencer and former OnlyFans personality, filed a lawsuit against West in June, accusing him of sexually harassing and harassing her while she worked for him in 2021 and 2022. West has denied the allegations, calling them “baseless” and, in turn, , accusing her of ‘blackmail and extortion’.
However, it seemed that West’s refusal was not enough to stop the legal process. In November, Pisciotta’s lawyer, Mark Koorenny, accused the rapper of “evading” the lawsuit by wandering around Tokyo.
The updated document said the disgraced rapper was “out of the country” and “evading service” of the lawsuit, halting the progress of the case.
Koorenny has even suggested serving West through publication, which involves publishing the lawsuit in a newspaper or other place where the defendant is likely to see it or be notified by someone who does.
Although some courts are reluctant to allow such measures, the court is likely to allow them considering the high-profile accused. They asked for a 60-day delay in releasing the lawsuit and hoped to complete discovery and depositions by October of this year.
The filing noted that all of West’s Yeezy companies, which are based in the U.S. and sued alongside the rapper himself, were notified and a guilty plea was expected shortly after Dec. 3, although that has yet to be announced. no plea agreement revealed.
The rapper has been sheltering in a luxury hotel room in Japan for several months.
These days, the ‘Donda’ rapper has made quite the home for himself in Japan, where he is reportedly living in a luxurious hotel room in Tokyo to record his upcoming album, Bully.
West and Censori stepped out at a mall in Tokyo last November wearing matching white ensembles.
West has been waging a “paparazzi war” over the years and was recently sued by a female photographer following an altercation in January 2023.
While some fans may believe West moved to Japan’s capital to avoid legal trouble, others have suggested it’s because he’s now fed up with the paparazzi in Los Angeles.
“They are harassed when they are in America and never really feel safe,” a source exclusively tells DailyMail.com. “The United States is the only country Kanye is in and where he constantly gets into fights that get him into trouble.”
“He’s tired of people invading his space and when they’re abroad this doesn’t happen.” “People respect him more,” the source added.
DailyMail.com has contacted Kanye’s representatives for comment.
The father of four has been waging a “war on the paparazzi” over the years. In June 2023, West was sued by a female photographer for alleged assault, battery, and negligence after she threw her phone into the street following a confrontation in January of that year.
“I think Japan is good for him. In Los Angeles he has a war with the paparazzi. He doesn’t like the paparazzi,” a friend of Kanye’s told music journalist Touré in October, according to Touré. Substack.
‘In Japan he has a different level of tranquility, which obviously leads him to be able to make very good music. Because your mind is calm. Your mind is at rest. “You’re not paranoid about anything,” another friend said.
West and Censori bought a $35 million mansion in Beverly Hills as a ‘last effort’ to save their marriage
However, the ‘Bound 2’ rapper’s peace bubble may soon be coming to an end. In October, West bought a $35 million mansion in the luxurious Beverly Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, even raiding his pension and using subprime mortgage lenders to do so.
The couple closed on the purchase of the home, which contains 11 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, through their joint firm Shore Drive Holdings LLC. Sources claimed that he bought the mansion as a last-ditch effort to save his marriage, as Censori was fed up with aimlessly wandering the world and wanted to be “grounded.”
West and Censori recently purchased a $35 million mansion in Beverly Hills, as Censori was fed up with aimlessly wandering the world and wanted to be “grounded.”
The luxurious home, which counts Adele and Justin Bieber as neighbors, has 11 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms.
West allegedly looted his pension fund and used subprime mortgage lenders to finance the recent purchase.
While West’s high-profile neighbors include Adele and Justin Bieber, the couple will likely use the home as a rental investment property.
A source says the couple’s concerns for their safety have only increased since they “no longer have a base of operations” and West “has been selling their homes and flipping properties.”
“This has gotten worse since he got together with Bianca and he doesn’t want anything to happen to her,” they added. “Sometimes it’s scary for them and the best way to not have to deal with any of this is to just not be where it happens.”
Pisciotta’s rape and sexual harassment allegations aren’t the only heartbreaking allegations facing the Grammy-winning rapper. The former Onlyfans model’s most serious claim was that years before she worked for him, he drugged and raped her, and allegedly only confessed in his final weeks as her boss.
Pisciotta allegedly met West when he invited his client, a musician, to a studio session and party he hosted with his friend, disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
In the filing, the model claimed that West had given her a drink and after a few sips, she “suddenly began to feel disoriented and…began to fall into an altered and highly impaired state.”
“He felt less in control of his body and his speech and that is where (his) memories of the night eluded him,” the lawsuit reads.
The next day, she felt “embarrassed and embarrassed” that she could not remember the night and her musician client refused to comment on what happened.
Pisciotta claimed he only learned years later why his client “was too traumatized and distraught to talk about that night.”
The same month his former assistant’s updated filing was filed, West became the subject of another lawsuit accusing him and Ty Dolla $ign of copyright infringement. A group of Memphis rappers claimed that the song ‘Fuk Sumn’ from the rappers’ collaborative album, Vultures 1, included a sample of their work without proper credit or compensation.
A few weeks later, West was accused of “gagging” and strangling America’s Next Top Model alum Jenn An until she passed out in a federal lawsuit. In the lawsuit against West and Universal Music Group, An claimed that West “smothered” her face with his hands and “gagged her to emulate forced oral sex” during the filming of a music video in 2010.
West has yet to publicly respond to the allegations, but the once-acclaimed musician’s future remains up in the air. If history is to be believed, hopping from one island destination to another bustling Asian metropolis may not be enough to avoid the myriad legal battles knocking at your door.