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Kanye West and wife Bianca Censori split: reports

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Agence France-Presse

<p>LOS ANGELES - Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori have split, reports said Thursday, capping two weeks of controversy for the rapper whose once-stellar career has descended into chaos.</p><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-2" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_RZC42SPIa/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=675&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A6087592.899999991%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="802" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>The pair have separately sought legal advice over a divorce, entertainment website TMZ said, while the Daily Mail reported the 30-year-old architect has agreed to a $5 million payout.</p><p>The reports come just days after the couple caused a stir with a jaw-dropping red carpet appearance in which Censori paraded naked on the arm of her entrepreneur husband.</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFqenK8SKR1/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=675&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A6055895.599999994%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="665" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>The viral stunt at the Grammy Awards sparked concerns that the 47-year-old rapper and music producer was coercing his wife, who has frequently been seen semi-nude during their two years of marriage.</p><p>Days later, West -- who now calls himself Ye -- went on a days-long rant on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.</p><p>He called himself a &quot;Nazi&quot; and said he had &quot;dominion over&quot; his wife.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/celebrities/2025/2/10/kanye-west-s-account-on-x-goes-dark-after-hate-filled-rant-0735" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kanye West&#x27;s account on X goes dark after hate-filled rant</a></div><div><br/></div><p>&quot;I don&#x27;t make her do nothing she doesn&#x27;t want to but she definitely wouldn&#x27;t have been able to do it without my approval,&quot; he wrote in one unpunctuated all-caps post.</p><p>The account went dark at the end of last week, though it was not clear if it had been pulled by X or voluntarily shut down.</p><p>West&#x27;s Yeezy.com website was yanked this week after it began selling nothing but T-shirts with a swastika on the front.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/celebrities/2025/2/12/kanye-west-s-website-goes-down-after-nazi-t-shirt-sales-1000" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kanye West&#x27;s website goes down after Nazi T-shirt sales</a></div><p>E-commerce provider Shopify said it had removed the site because the retailer had &quot;violated our terms.&quot;</p><p>On Thursday the URL showed only the apparently handwritten message &quot;Yeezy stores coming soon.&quot;</p><p>The New York Post said West&#x27;s Nazi T-shirt stunt had tipped Censori over the edge.</p><p>&quot;She&#x27;s had enough,&quot; the outlet quoted a source as saying.</p><p>&quot;The swastika shirt was the last straw. She told him that&#x27;s not who she is, and that she can&#x27;t be associated with that.</p><p>&quot;She doesn&#x27;t want any part of that circus. He believes that she&#x27;ll come back to him, he&#x27;s saying that she&#x27;s just mad at him, but right now she&#x27;s told him that she&#x27;s completely done.&quot;</p><p>The Hollywood Reporter, however, quoted right-wing agitator Milo Yiannopolous, who it said was a rep for the couple, denying the split.</p><p>&quot;Ye and Bianca are in Los Angeles, about to enjoy Valentine&#x27;s Day together. Announcements about their private life will come from them directly, not unsourced rumor in the tabloid press,&quot; he told the outlet.</p><p>West -- who has previously spoken of living with bipolar disorder, but now says he is autistic -- was formerly married to reality TV star Kim Kardashian.</p><p>The couple, who divorced in 2022, have four children.</p><p>hg/acb</p><p>© Agence France-Presse</p>

<p>Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori have split, reports said Thursday, capping two weeks of controversy for the rapper whose once-stellar career has descended into chaos.</p>

Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori have split, reports said Thursday, capping two weeks of controversy for the rapper whose once-stellar career has descended into chaos.