{"id":106960,"date":"2022-10-24T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T22:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/caa-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-as-hollywood-boycott-calls-grow-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T22:35:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T22:35:16","slug":"caa-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-as-hollywood-boycott-calls-grow-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/caa-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-as-hollywood-boycott-calls-grow-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"CAA Cuts Ties With Kanye West as Hollywood Boycott Calls Grow \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tAmid calls to cut ties with Kanye \u201cYe\u201d West over his repeated antisemitic comments, CAA stopped representing the artist within the last month, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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\tThe Century City-based talent agency had worked with the artist, but his espousing antisemitic rhetoric in multiple recent interviews has proved indefensible to some business partners. With CAA ending its run with West, Hollywood’s major talent agencies \u2014 including WME and UTA \u2014 have supported calls to end working relationship with the rapper and fashion mogul. <\/p>\n

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\tOn Oct. 23, Jeremy Zimmer, who leads rival agency UTA, sent a companywide email titled \u201cRise of Anti Semitism and Hate,\u201d writing that West’s comments \u201cembolden others to amplify their vile beliefs.\u201d The UTA CEO added: \u201cWe can’t support hate speech, bigotry or anti-Semitism. Please support the boycott of Kanye West.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tDays earlier, Endeavor and WME mogul Ari Emanuel penned a column in the Financial Times<\/em> saying that \u201csilence\u201d isn’t an option for the business community given West’s antisemitism. \u201cThose who continue to do business with West are giving his misguided hate an audience,\u201d Emanuel wrote. <\/p>\n

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\tWhile West has a lucrative deal with Adidas for his Yeezy shoe and fashion line, other major partners \u2014 including French label Balenciaga, as well as production studio MRC, which was working on a documentary with the artist \u2014 have publicly distanced themselves and cut ties. \u201cWe cannot support any content that amplifies his platform,\u201d wrote MRC’s leaders, while Balenciaga noted that it does n’t have \u201cany relationship\u201d with West moving forward. <\/p>\n

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\tWhile the rapper still has official accounts on Twitter and Instagram, posts containing antisemitic comments \u2014 including a tweet on Oct. 8 that called for \u201cdeath con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE\u201d \u2014 have been removed from the social media giants’ platforms. In seeming response, West inked a deal to take ownership of the small \u201cfree speech\u201d social media app Parler on Oct. 17. That app is run by CEO George Farmer, the husband of conservative activist Candace Owens, who donned a \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d T-shirt along with West at Paris Fashion Week earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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\tThe artist \u2014 whose net worth is estimated at $2 billion, per forbes<\/em>‘ calculations \u2014 had his last full-length album, 2021’s in the frost<\/em>, distributed by Def Jam Recordings, a division of the publicly traded Universal Music Group. In a tweet on Oct. 17, UMG stated, \u201cThere is no place for antisemitism in our society,\u201d but made no reference to West. <\/p>\n

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\tWest’s media tour this month has included stops with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, rapper NORE on the podcast Drink Champs<\/em>and Chris Cuomo at NewsNation<\/em>. \u201cI classify as Jew also, so I actually can’t be an antisemite,\u201d West told Cuomo. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n