Influential American rapper and fashion icon Kanye West has been named as a suspect in a battery report taken by the LAPD’s Newton Division on Thursday morning (US Pacific Time), Variety has confirmed. He was not arrested; A rep for West did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The incident happened around 3 a.m. on South Santa Fe Avenue and Bay Street in downtown Los Angeles, LAPD spokeswoman Redina Puentes, quoted by Variety, said. The location is outside the Soho Warehouse, a members-only club.
Online newspaper TMZ was the first to report, citing police sources, that the incident is being investigated as rape battery, which carries a maximum sentence of 6 months in prison.
TMZ also posted a secretly filmed video of West, which it says was “shot sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning,” in which a clearly agitated West is heard shouting, ” Did you say that or not? Did you all say that or not? … Because that’s what happened… Now.”
Meanwhile, days after Julia Fox and Kanye West were seen on multiple dates, the Italian-American actress opened up about her budding romance and her “Cinderella moment” with the rapper. In Interview magazine detailing her relationship with Kim Kardashian’s estranged husband, she revealed that she met the rapper-singer in Miami on New Year’s Eve and had an “immediate relationship” with him.
Ever since Kim Kardashian filed for divorce in February, West has been single. Despite several public announcements that the former pair would be reconciled, he has recently been linked with Fox. According to Page Six, the actress is also dating husband Peter Artemiev. The couple has an 11-month-old boy, Valentino. Earlier, Fox has been seen pointing towards relationship problems on social media.
(with IANS inputs)
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