{"id":571682,"date":"2026-04-08T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:38:09","slug":"kanye-wests-legal-issues-grow-with-ex-bodyguard-seeking-nearly-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571682\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West’s Legal Issues Grow With Ex-Bodyguard Seeking Nearly $1M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanye West
\n Ex-Security Guard Wants Nearly $1M<\/p>\n

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\n April 8, 2026
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Kanye West<\/a>\u2019s issues continue to grow \u2026. a former employee of the rapper is seeking close to $1 million in court for unpaid wages and other damages … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

According to court docs obtained by TMZ, Jonathan Monroe — who says he worked as a full-time security guard in 2021 — claims he wasn\u2019t paid all the wages owed nor given overtime.<\/p>\n

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In his new docs, Monroe asks for damages totaling around $850K … including $7,725 for unpaid overtime, $37,620 in lost wages, $500,000 in lost earnings, $100,000 for his pain and suffering … and another $100,000 in punitive damages.<\/p>\n

In his original lawsuit, Monroe claimed he tried to collect the money owed to him but was given the run-around. He claimed on one occasion, Ye asked him to fill up the tank of his Lamborghini and “When I asked for cash or use of his credit card to cover the expense, [Kanye] walked away from me without a response.\u201d<\/p>\n

As TMZ previously reported, Kanye was ordered to pay<\/a> another ex-employee, Tony Saxon, $140K in an unrelated lawsuit.<\/p>\n

This newest legal issue comes as London’s Wireless Festival scrapped its event<\/a> after sponsors started pulling out<\/a> due to Kanye being the headliner and the British government denied him entry to the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West Ex-Security Guard Wants Nearly $1M Published April 8, 2026 3:00 AM PDT Kanye West\u2019s issues continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4,88,483,216,3,484],"class_list":["post-571682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-breaking-news","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}