Kanye West Ordered to Testify in Deposition After Months of Allegedly ‘Avoiding’ His Sex Assault Case

Kanye West has been ordered by a judge to appear for a deposition, according to a court document filed on Monday, December 1 and obtained by Globe.

The music mogul, 48, who is being sued for sexual assault by his former assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, is scheduled to be deposed on Friday, January 16 — three days after his former staffer gives her testimony.

As Globe previously reported, Pisciotta’s lawyers had filed court papers in October alleging that West’s lawyers ignored repeated emails regarding discovery documents and deposition dates in the case.

“In the unusual event that Defense counsel decides to respond to Plaintiff’s emails, their responses are nothing more than breadcrumbs designed to placate Plaintiff for the purpose of avoiding court intervention,” the papers alleged.

The papers also noted that in an April court appearance regarding another lawsuit, West’s lawyer, Eduardo Martorell, “openly admitted that he was not able to reach his client, and that he did not have a firm commitment from his client to appear for his deposition.”

Pisciotta has accused her former employer of sexual harassment and assault. She claims that over a period of a year, he touched her against her will, disclosed his NSFW fantasies about her, sent her sexually explicit images of himself and demanded she send photos of herself.

“During the same time period, Defendant Ye orally raped plaintiff, forcibly touched her vagina without her consent, and masturbated in front of Plaintiff on multiple occasions,” her lawyers allege.

After Pisciotta filed her suit last year, lawyers for West denied her claims in a statement to Page Six, calling them “baseless.”