Kanye West and his spouse, Bianca Censori, are again collectively as a pair after an obvious cut up, their publicist confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter, and are getting ready to sue the rap mogul’s former dentist for medical malpractice by supplying him with nitrous oxide and the intravenous anesthetic and sedative propofol, fraudulent billing, and a number of different alleged crimes.
In a proper discover of intent to provoke litigation despatched to Dr. Thomas Connelly from Golden Regulation on Wednesday and signed by Andrew Cherkasky, the regulation agency’s president, the dentist’s alleged malpractice involving West is printed intimately. Ye was a affected person of Connelly beginning in 2024 by earlier this yr. Throughout that point, he underwent varied beauty procedures, together with the location of specialised prosthodontic work, a customized titanium crown and different beauty remedies. Connelly allegedly equipped the rapper with nitrous oxide and inspired unsupervised self-administration whereas ignoring clear antagonistic neurological and behavioral indicators obvious within the affected person, the letter states.
“Proof exhibits that throughout the time Ye was below your care, you engaged in quite a few inappropriate and harmful practices that have been far outdoors the bounds of any professional medical function or commonplace of care,” the letter states. “These actions weren’t remoted incidents however relatively a part of a sample of improper conduct by you from 2024 by 2025 whereas Ye was your affected person. Ms. Censori, as Ye’s partner, was a witness to and impacted by many of those occasions (a few of which happened at their shared residence).”
Connelly’s web site touts him as a pioneer in luxurious beauty dentistry for males, stating that “the world’s most influential males belief Dr. Thomas Connelly to craft their signature smiles. Designed for high-profile males, athletes, and people who demand one of the best.” He provides his companies out of Beverly Hills, Manhattan workplaces and by appointment wherever. A message despatched by THR to his observe asking for a touch upon Thursday didn’t tougher an instantaneous response.
West, who was recognized with bipolar dysfunction in 2016, displayed habits that was erratic earlier than and throughout the interval when he was in Connelly’s care, however in these months, he did make a number of weird public statements and go on social media tirades, the place he at one level praised Adolf Hitler and denounced the #MeToo motion. West additionally bought native promoting throughout Tremendous Bowl LIX, wherein he appeared for his vogue and shoe model, Yeezy, that aired towards the tip of the sport. Within the spot, West was proven mendacity down on the dentist, capturing the spot on an iPhone front-facing digicam, with sun shades on.
“I spent, like, all the cash for the business on these new enamel,” the rapper stated, exhibiting off his diamond-encrusted enamel. “As soon as once more, I needed to shoot it on the iPhone. Um … Um … Go to Yeezy.com.”
The next day, the e-commerce part for Yeezy.com contained a single merchandise — a black t-shirt emblazoned with a pink swastika. The T-shirt is labeled on Kanye’s web site as ‘HH-01,’ which is code for Heil Hitler.
In April 2025, West rapped in a brand new track titled “Bianca” that Censori had left him after his Twitter tirade that adopted the Grammys, the place the couple grabbed headlines after they unveiled Censori’s near-nude look on the pink carpet. But the couple has been noticed collectively in Spain in latest days and on Thursday morning, their rep, Milo Yiannopoulos, confirmed to THR that the couple stays married and has reconciled.
Connelly is accused of a bevy of misdeeds within the letter, together with instructing West on the way to self-administer nitrous oxide with none medical supervision or safeguards. The dentist is accused of offering the rapper with tanks, masks, and different gear and directions on the way to administer the “laughing gasoline” himself. The agency writes that the dentist “went as far as to ship massive ‘surgical-size’ nitrous oxide tanks to Ye’s residence (together with the residence he shared with Ms. Censori), successfully enabling and inspiring him to inhale nitrous oxide outdoors of any medical setting.”
The letter famous that Connelly allowed this to hold on as West confirmed signs of neurological and behavioral misery. This could embody confusion, reminiscence lapses, incoherence, unpredictable modifications in temper, impaired motor perform, and different cognitive and behavioral issues, the letter states. It additionally notes that Connelly wrote apologies for his actions.
“On a number of events, you acknowledged in writing that your remedy of Ye was improper,” the lawyer’s letter to Connelly states. “In varied communications (together with textual content message exchanges and/or emails), you apologized to Ye and Ms. Censori and admitted that you just had made errors in your remedy choices.”
The letter additionally notes that Connelly extracted “exorbitant funds” from West for his companies, to the tune of $50,000 monthly, and alleges “cumulatively reaching into the lots of of 1000’s of {dollars}.”
Along with the stream of nitrous oxide, Connelly allegedly equipped to West, he’s accused of administering the drug propofol on a number of events in non-medical settings. One alleged incident happened at a lodge in Las Vegas, based on the letter, and one other noticed the dentist administer the drug, then discharge West from his care previous to verifying his mind-set.
“Consequently, on this occasion, Ye suffered excessive psychological and bodily misery resulting in pressing medical care,” the letter states. “In one other occasion, proof suggests extra improper utilization of propofol or related managed substances when Ye had diminished capability and was not conscious of or able to knowingly consent for the utilization of this substance due.”
Connelly is lastly accused of reckless abandonment of West as his affected person, failing to offer follow-up medical care, detoxing, or any referral because the mogul was within the depths of nitrous oxide dependency and struggling neurological injury.
In August, the difficulty of West’s dependency on the laughing gasoline was addressed by Yiannopoulos, who alleged that Connelly was intent on “[diminishing] Ye’s psychological schools in order that Connelly and his enterprise associates might extract thousands and thousands of {dollars} from him,” as he wrote on X, denouncing the dentist. He additionally posted an affidavit he’d filed to the California Dental Board that week in early August, claiming Connelly had put in Ye’s everlasting titanium prosthodontics earlier in 2024.
The previous right-wing political pundit claimed within the affidavit that Connelly “prices rappers and cartel bosses for pure stones however places vastly cheaper, lab-grown diamonds of their mouths as an alternative.” He additionally asserted {that a} staffer at Yeezy noticed the nitrous tanks dropped at Censori’s residence; in the long run, 5 Yeezy staffers photographed the house nitrous set up. Connelly later claimed that the tanks have been, in actual fact, empty. On the time, a rep for Connelly stated that Yiannopoulos’s reminiscence of occasions was “not solely factually incorrect but additionally deliberately deceptive,” and that he meant to wreck Connelly’s popularity.
Yiannopoulos had additionally posted a textual content message between himself, West and Connelly wherein the dentist agreed to ship tanks of the gasoline to the Chateau Marmont in L.A. because the West’s on-off publicist protested, itemizing among the harmful long-term injury of extended use of the gasoline.
