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Kanye West Allegedly Paid How Much to Get His Sex Tape Scrubbed From the Internet?!

The 'Mercy' rapper has had quite a tumultuous last few weeks and things don't appear to be getting better.

As if we havenโ€™t seen enough of Kanye West in the headlines here recently, his name doesnโ€™t appear to be disappearing soon thanks to yet another shocking revelation. And this one is a bit more scandalous than usual.

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Recently, we told you about how his fashion stunt at the 2025 Grammys jeopardized a performing contract in Japan that reportedly would see him losing out on $20 million. Now, thanks to new allegations, it looks like West might not be a stranger to losing out on big bucks all in one shot.

As noted by the Daily Mail, โ€œThe Life of Pabloโ€ rapper is being blasted by former Hollywood fixer Kevin Blatt, whoโ€™s taken issue with Westโ€™s recent anti-Semitic and derogatory comments about Jewish people. As previously reported by The Root, the Chicago rapper went on a three-day social media rant on X/Twitter in which he, among many things, referred to himself as a Nazi, expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and spewed more hate speech targeted at the Jewish population.

As a result, Blatt subsequently took to Instagram to remind West of how he allegedly paid $250,000 to get him to remove a 2012 sex tape of him and sex worker in Las Vegas having...well...โ€œrelationsโ€ from off the internet. Whatโ€™s more is that Blatt posted a screenshot from the purported video in a since-expired post to his Instagram stories as proof and claimed that the rapper was on MDMA when he had the encounter.

โ€˜Remember that sex tape I helped take off the market for you in 2012 with that hooker in Vegas? Yeah this JEW didnโ€™t forget what a horrible performance and small [eggplant emoji] u had on MDMA,โ€ Blatt wrote. โ€œHey, why donโ€™t you GO F*CK Your favorite person in the world YOURSELF[sic].โ€

While the allegations of how much West alledgly paid are coming from just Blatt, based on a TMZ report from 2012, it does appear that West had not one but two tapes being shopped around the internet at the time.

These new allegations come after Westโ€™s rocky developments in the last few weeks which include: his bizarre ad during the 2025 Super Bowl, getting dropped from his talent agency, Shopify taking down his e-commerce site, X/Twitter getting him to deactivate his account and getting slapped with yet another lawsuit.

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