Kanye West’s team claims about $1.2 million worth of his Yeezy GAP apparel – around 60,000 articles of clothing – has vanished from his warehouse.
According to his chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos, the team then found a fan account that was advertising a sale in Los Angeles this Friday where massive amounts of Yeezy GAP clothes could be purchased for $20 apiece.
Detectives and cops were dispatched to the sale, where the organizers assured the authorities that they had bought the clothes legitimately.
Although the people behind the event insisted they had receipts verifying their side of the story, the police were not able to trace every piece of clothing back to a receipt, law enforcement sources told TMZ.
However, as West neglected to file a police report and there were two contradictory narratives at play, the police could not confiscate the clothes.
Kanye West ‘s team claims about $1.2 million worth of his Yeezy GAP apparel – around 60,000 articles of clothing – has vanished from his warehouse
![West is pictured last month attending the Mami runway show at Milan Fashion Week alongside his second and current wife Bianca Censori](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/05/82535139-13203829-West_is_pictured_last_month_attending_the_Mami_runway_show_at_Mi-a-35_1710566970217.jpg)
West is pictured last month attending the Mami runway show at Milan Fashion Week alongside his second and current wife Bianca Censori
West’s team has now issued a cease and desist letter to the sale organizers, accusing them of forging the receipts to hoodwink the authorities.
Yiannopoulos maintained that West’s team would not have allowed a bulk sale of his apparel, and that they themselves had no record of such a sale occurring.
Doubling down on the accusation that the clothes were stolen, Yiannopoulos asserted that West’s team will file a police report and take any other measures they need to in order to retrieve the missing items.
He alleged further that he and his team were of the impression that they had uncovered the identity of one of the people who stole the clothes.
Yiannopoulos, an ‘ex-gay’ media personality who shot to international fame as a right-wing pundit before his association with West, has said the rap star’s team will give any leads it uncovers to the authorities.
The Yeezy GAP fracas comes days after West and his collaborator Ty Dolla $ign delivered a controversial performance at the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival.
West and Ty Dolla $ign worked together on last month’s album Vultures 1 and are currently percolating its follow-up effort Vultures 2.
When news broke that West would be headlining Rolling Loud, the hip-hop festival found itself faced with a deluge of backlash.
![The Yeezy GAP fracas comes days after West and his collaborator Ty Dolla $ign delivered a controversial performance at the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/05/82535097-13203829-The_Yeezy_GAP_fracas_comes_days_after_West_and_his_collaborator_-a-36_1710566970242.jpg)
The Yeezy GAP fracas comes days after West and his collaborator Ty Dolla $ign delivered a controversial performance at the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival
![They neglected to rap live at all, opting instead to wander around the stage without microphones while tracks from Vultures 1 played behind them](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/04/82535093-13203829-They_neglected_to_rap_live_at_all_opting_instead_to_wander_aroun-m-62_1710562738082.jpg)
They neglected to rap live at all, opting instead to wander around the stage without microphones while tracks from Vultures 1 played behind them
![Ty Dolla $ign defended the 'listening experience' to Big Boy TV , boasting: 'It’s still better than other people's shows that have a mic'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/03/82535067-13203829-image-a-48_1710560838691.jpg)
Ty Dolla $ign defended the ‘listening experience’ to Big Boy TV , boasting: ‘It’s still better than other people’s shows that have a mic’
The criticism focused on West’s past antisemitic outbursts, including praise for Hitler and a vow to ‘go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.’
West saw his career implode and his billion-dollar fortune plummet in late 2022 as a result of his string of tirades directed at Jews.
When West and Ty Dolla $ign’s performance finally took place this week, they neglected to rap live at all, opting instead to wander around the stage without microphones while tracks from Vultures 1 played behind them.
Footage from the show indicates that the live audience enjoyed the spectacle, but the two performers were raked over the coals on social media.
Ty Dolla $ign defended the ‘listening experience’ to Big Boy TV, boasting: ‘It’s still better than other people’s shows that have a mic.’