No Laughing Matter: Kanye’s Lawyer Jumps Ship

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Being the personal lawyer of a multi-millionaire music artist can be a dream job. But what if that artist is Ye? Money is nice and all, but there are limits to when it is worth representing someone legally. News of Ye’s alleged laughing gas abuse may have been the thing that crossed the threshold.

From In Touch:

A Los Angeles judge signed off on Kanye West’s lawyer dropping him as a client as shocking allegations that the rapper is allegedly hooked to nitrous oxide surface, In Touch can exclusively report.

According to court documents obtained by In Touch, the court granted the motion brought by Ye’s attorney, Brian Brumfield, seeking to withdraw as representation for the entertainer in a $2 million fight with his former business partners at The Gap. Brian also asked to withdraw from several other cases filed against Ye, 47.

There were other issues with their working relationship, namely that Brumfield said Ye stopped communicating with and paying him for his work.

One of the people that did the biggest job of bringing Kanye’s alleged laughing gas abuse to the public eye is Milo Yiannopoulos:

Connelly got Ye hooked on nitrous—laughing gas. It is my belief that Connelly sought to diminish Ye’s mental faculties so that Connelly and his business associates could extract millions of dollars from him.

— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) August 7, 2024

Things are bad when vengeful right-wing grifters are the one speaking out on your behalf, but then again, it seems that’s the lion’s share of who Ye has been spending his time around. Really bad time to lose one of your zealous advocates.

Kanye West Loses Lawyer As Shocking Nitrous Oxide Use Allegations Surface [In Touch]

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