Kanye West is dealing with yet another scandal as he continues to deal with recent racism rant backlash and potentially the end of his marriage with Bianca Censori.
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According to Page Six, West broke his silence about the alleged resurfacing of his sex tape that came out after Hollywood fixer Kevin “KB” Blatt reportedly stopped it from going public.
West wrote in a since-deleted post on his reinstated X (formerly Twitter) account, “THAT WAS A FUN NIGHT CANT WAIT TO SEE IT AGAIN.” He was responding to a post that showed screenshots of Blatt’s Instagram story claiming he stopped the sex tape from going public more than a decade ago.
Blatt is Jewish and previously worked as a marketing and PR specialist in the online adult entertainment industry. He made the claims after West made headlines over his recent antisemitic posts on X. The rant led to his account being restricted. This caused West to leave the social media platform for a short period of time.
“Hey @ye Remember that sex tape I helped take off the market for you in 2012… In Vegas?” Blatt wrote in his Instagram Stories post. He also posted a photo of a shirtless Ye. “Yeah this JEW didn’t forget about what a horrible performance and small [egglant emoji] u had …”
Blatt later told Page Six that he hoped to teach West “a lesson” for his antisemitic rant.
Kanye West Was Forced to Pay $250,000 to a Family Member Who Discovered the Sex Tape on a Laptop the Rapper Gifted Them
The sex tape features Kanye West and an unknown woman. The video was on a laptop Ye had gifted a family member. However, after the family member discovered the video, the rapper was forced to pay $250,000. His cousin, Lawrence Franklin, confirmed the incident during a 2016 interview with the Daily Mail.
“The sex tape episode started his decline – he stopped trusting people,” Franklin explained. “At the end of the day if a member of your family had taken you for a quarter of a million dollars – so they can complete their own ambitions – who can you trust within your circle?”
Franklin said the situation took place around the same time as West’s mother, Donda West, died. “He took a lot of responsibility for that.”
“When you go from being a regular person to being a huge star,” Franklin continued. “And having all of these mounting issues and being completely void of the normalcy that you once had – it’s tough. Where do you go? Who do you trust at the end of the day?”
The tape was originally found in late 2012 when Kanye West started dating his first wife, Kim Kardashian.