Ye Lawyer Dumps Him

Kanye West

UPDATE 2PM MONDAY:  Kanye West is no longer working with Johnny Depp’s famed trial attorney Camille Vasquez after he doubled down and refused to walk back his slew of anti-Semitic remarks.

Just days after being hired by the embattled rapper, the Los Angeles-based attorney told her firm, Brown Rudnick, that she wasn’t going to work with him anymore after he continued to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric over the weekend, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told The Post on Monday.

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Kanye West has reportedly hired Johnny Depp’s defamation trial attorney Camille Vasquez to represent his business interests amid his brewing public-image and business crises, reports The LA Times.

The rapper-entrepreneur, who legally changed his name to Ye a year ago, is said to have retained national law firm Brown Rudnick to represent him as his contracts and deals evaporate following his spate of antisemitic remarks and false claims about the death of George Floyd, whose family is suing the rapper for harassment, misappropriation and defamation.

Camille Vasquez

Vasquez is said to be among the group of attorneys at the firm that he hired, TMZ reported Friday.

Vasquez is a partner at Brown Rudnick’s Irvine-based operation and became an international celebrity during last spring’s bombshell defamation trial between Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. Vasquez became a star among Depp supporters on social media and a sought-after talent in the business realm.

TMZ reported that the firm will not be representing the rapper during his protracted divorce proceedings with reality star Kim Kardashian. For that task, Ye recently hired Robert Stephan Cohen of New York’s Cohen Clair Lans Greifer Thorpe & Rottenstreich LLP, who represented Melinda Gates in her split from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

The Vasquez hiring report comes the same day fashion house Balenciaga, which has long collaborated with the performer and had him walk in its recent Paris Fashion Week show, announced that it had cut ties with Ye.

“Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” the brand’s parent firm Kering said in a brief statement Friday.

Global brands have been distancing themselves from the Grammy winner for months following his unrelenting outbursts on social media, which eventually led to his ban from Instagram and Twitter (and a move to buy right-wing platform Parler).