Kanye West has filed to have his social media outbursts rendered inadmissible in a hearing on whether his estranged wife Kim Kardashian will be declared legally single.
In the past two months he has drawn widespread mockery and opprobrium over a string of posts aimed at Kim and her new boyfriend Pete Davidson, among others.
Kim has filed court documents saying the posts contain ‘a lot of misinformation’ and have caused her ’emotional distress.’
Now the 44-year-old rappers’ counsel has said in response: ‘Kim claims she read something online allegedly by Kanye and characterizes the posts in her declaration as misinformation,’ TMZ reports citing court documents.
The way they were: Kanye West has filed to have his social media outbursts rendered inadmissible in a hearing on whether Kim Kardashian will be declared legally single
‘Kim needed to offer the social media posts into evidence, and show that the posts were written by Kanye,’ Kanye’s attorney continued.
Two months ago Kim filed to be declared legally single, and a hearing will occur next week in order to decide the matter.
Earlier this month Kanye listed multiple provisos that he insisted Kim would have to accept if she wanted to restore her single status.
One was that she cannot remove any money from trusts she created with him, and another is that if one of them dies the other has a ‘right of reimbursement.’
Hitting back: Kim has filed court documents saying the posts contain ‘a lot of misinformation’ and have caused her ’emotional distress’
Kim’s counsel argued at the time that these measures were ‘unnecessary’ because of the prenuptial agreement, according to Page Six.
In the new legal filing this week, however, Kanye’s team argued that the prenuptial agreement – which split their assets – must not be regarded as valid yet.
Kanye’s counsel has argued that the prevailing view in California is that prenuptial agreements signed after 2001 can only be made valid if either both sides of the couple consent to it or if the matter goes to trial.
Kim filed for divorce last February amid a swirl of rumors that her marriage to the rap superstar was on the verge of collapse.
Not having it: Now however his counsel has said: ‘Kim claims she read something online allegedly by Kanye and characterizes the posts in her declaration as misinformation’
Over the past couple of months Kanye has been frequently airing out their disputes in public, including releasing a diss track aimed at Kim and the children called Eazy.
He has claimed that Kim declined to tell him the location of their daughter Chicago’s fourth birthday party last month but that he showed up anyway.
‘America saw you try to kid nap my daughter on her birthday by not providing the address,’ he raged at her on social media. ‘You put security on me inside of the house to play with my son then accused me of stealing I had to take a drug test after Chicago’s party cause you accused me of being on drugs.’
He also took repeated public jabs at Kim’s current boyfriend Pete Davidson, whom he has given the nickname Skete.
Wow: Kanye wrote: ‘UPON MY WIFE’S REQUEST PLEASE NOBODY DO ANYTHING PHYSICAL TO SKETE IM GOING TO HANDLE THE SITUATION MYSELF’ with a still from Baby Boy
Kim eventually texted him that she was worried he was ‘creating a dangerous and scary environment’ in which ‘someone will hurt Pete and this will all be your fault.’
Kanye then posted screen-grabs of the conversation, as well as a picture of Ving Rhames putting Tyrese Gibson in a chokehold in the film Baby Boy.
‘UPON MY WIFE’S REQUEST PLEASE NOBODY DO ANYTHING PHYSICAL TO SKETE IM GOING TO HANDLE THE SITUATION MYSELF,’ he wrote.
Kim pleaded with him over text: ‘Why can’t you keep any of our conversations private ???’ and he replied: ”Cause I got a text from my favorite person in the world,’ adding: ‘I’m your number one fan … Why wouldn’t I tell everyone!!!!’
Leak: Over the past weeks Kanye also shared a screen-grab of a friendly text sent to him by Pete, whom he slammed as a ‘d***head’
‘NO YOU WILL NEVER MEET MY CHILDREN’: Kanye retorted by posting an Instagram photo of Pete and Machine Gun Kelly goofing around together in their underwear
Over the past weeks Kanye also shared a screen-grab of a friendly text sent to him by Pete, whom he slammed as a ‘d***head.’
Pete expressed hopes in the text of ‘one day’ meeting the four children Kim and Kanye share – North, eight, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and Psalm, two.
Kanye retorted by posting an Instagram photo of Pete and Machine Gun Kelly goofing around together in their underwear and wrote in the caption: ‘NO YOU WILL NEVER MEET MY CHILDREN.’
They day after Valentine’s Day he confessed: ‘I know sharing screen shots was jarring and came off as harassing Kim. I take accountability.’
Unrelenting: Kim pleaded with him over text: ‘Why can’t you keep any of our conversations private ???’ and he replied: ”Cause I got a text from my favorite person in the world’
He also shared: ‘I’ve learned that using all caps makes people feel like I’m screaming at them. I’m working on my communication.’
Since Kim left him Kanye has repeatedly begged her in public to come back to him and reunite the family, including on his 2021 album Donda, and recently he even sent a truckload of roses to her house.
However in court documents cited by TMZ this week Kim declared: ‘I very much desire to be divorced,’ arguing that ‘there is no way to repair our marriage.’
She added: ‘Kanye does not agree but at least it appears that he has come to the realization that I want to end our marriage, even if he does not.’
‘I take accountability’: They day after Valentine’s Day he confessed: ‘I know sharing screen shots was jarring and came off as harassing Kim’
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