Kanye West has shut down reports that he and his wife Bianca Censori are getting divorced after he posted and deleted cryptic messages about “coercion” Thursday.
“Ye and Bianca are in Los Angeles, about to enjoy Valentine’s Day together,” West’s rep Milo Yiannopoulos told The Hollywood Reporter in a report he forwarded to The Daily Beast by email. “Announcements about their private life will come from them directly, not unsourced rumor in the tabloid press.”
Sources on Thursday ran to TMZ, Page Six, and Daily Mail to claim the couple had split, with Daily Mail first reporting they would be officially filing to end their marriage within the next few days.
Shortly after that DailyMail, TMZ published its own report claiming a “source with direct knowledge” told the site that both parties had met with divorce attorneys.
False reports of a separation have plagued the couple before, as both TMZ and Daily Mail erroneously reported their supposed separation most recently last October.
“Is this the fifth or is it the sixth time the press has wrongly reported that Ye and Bianca are separating? I’ve lost track,” Yiannopoulos quipped to THR Thursday.
Censori, 30, married West, 47, in December 2022 and is the head of architecture at West’s Yeezy company.
Minutes after DailyMail published its report on the couple calling it quits, West posted this cryptic message to Instagram: “Coercion is the act of forcing someone to do something against their will through threats or intimidation. It can involve physical harm, psychological abuse, extortion, blackmail or sexual assault.” The post was deleted soon after it was posted.
The fake breakup news comes less than two weeks after West walked the Grammys red carpet with Censori by his side, fully nude under a see-through dress, in a stunt that shocked the internet. The rapper kept his name in the headlines soon after by launching vicious online attacks against Jewish people and declaring himself a “Nazi” on Elon Musk’s X platform.
During that tirade, he wrote “I HAVE DOMINION OVER MY WIFE.” He followed up his many offensive online declaration by directing fans to his Yeezy website to purchase swastika tee shirts, through a locally-aired Super Bowl ad.
An account pretending to be Censori posted a prayer of sorts for the rapper that ultimately went viral. Yiannopoulos reached out to The Hollywood Reporter to debunk that the post was Censori herself.
He also told the site then, “The ‘battered Bianca’ narrative is hysterical and absurd.” He added, “There is a person controlling what Bianca Censori wears. The name of that person is Bianca Censori,” directly contradicting onlooker speculation that Censori may have been—to use a word West has used—coerced.
