An attorney representing Ye wants to be relieved from representing the performer, who the lawyer says won't speak to him or pay him.An attorney representing Ye in a lawsuit brought by an autograph dealer who alleges the rapper punched him after he asked for an autograph wants to be relieved from representing the performer, who the lawyer says won't speak to him or pay him.
But in court papers filed Monday with Judge Theresa Traber, Ye's attorney, Brian Brumfield, says he wants out of the case because the rapper terminated their working relationship on June 21. According to the suit, Poplawski had previously obtained Ye's autograph without a problem. The plaintiff was standing on a sidewalk near the exclusive Soho Warehouse social club on South Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 13, 2022, when Ye saw him, said he was going to make an example of him and referred to his divorce from Kardashian, the suit claims.