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Litigation & Arbitration,
Labor/Employment

Apr. 10, 2023

Kanye West’s school lacks chairs, has too much sushi, suit says

The rapper, who acts as CEO, secretary and CFO of the Donda Academy in Simi Valley, is a defendant in the case filed by Ronald L. Zambrano, who practices with West Coast Employment Lawyers in Los Angeles. He said his clients, two teachers, were fired after complaining about the school’s allegedly unorthodox and unsafe practices.

Students at a school run by rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, were subjected to a litany of health, safety and education violations, including a lack of chairs and lunches consisting only of sushi, according to two former teachers who sued the school.

The rapper enabled “an unsafe and illegal school environment for students that also discriminated against the plaintiffs based on their race,” plaintiffs’ attorney Ronald L. Zambrano said in a ...

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