Kanye West’s Yeezy ordered to pay $300K to NYC inventive director in lawsuit

Kanye West’s style model has been ordered to pay a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} to a Brooklyn inventive director who claimed she was stiffed over a photoshoot that includes the controversial rapper.

Yeezy – the style arm behind Ye, previously referred to as Kanye West – should fork over $300,000 to freelancer Katelyn Mooney after failing to reply to her lawsuit, Manhattan Supreme Court docket Decide Gerald Lebovits dominated.

Mooney – a longtime inventive director within the style trade – sued Yeezy in December 2022 claiming the favored model owed her almost $100,000 after hiring her to shoot its founder and new sun shades line SHDZ.

She delivered the ultimate digital photographs on Sept. 14, however was allegedly solely paid $15,000 of the $110,000 — regardless of having agreed to the quantity in textual content messages with Yeezy workers and sending invoices, in accordance with her lawsuit.

Mooney, a mom of three, stated that she needed to take out loans and “max out her bank cards” to cowl hire and different payments after not receiving funds for the 2 months that adopted the shoot, her swimsuit states.

Lebovits issued a default ruling in opposition to West’s model on Monday, discovering Yeezy chargeable for the claims, after no lawyer was entered on the docket for the style line and it by no means responded to court docket papers.

The quantity contains round $95,000 in precise damages plus some $205,000 in statutory damages, in accordance with the judgement.

The motion was introduced underneath freelance legal guidelines that shield unbiased staff.

The Put up reached out to representatives for each Mooney and Yeezy for remark.