Kanye West hires Melinda Gates’ lawyer in ongoing battle with Kim Kardashian

Kanye West has reportedly hired the same attorney who represented Melinda Gates in her $130 billion divorce from ex-husband Bill Gates in his own ongoing legal battle with ex Kim Kardashian.

Robert Stephan Cohen, who previously also represented Rupert Murdoch and Chris Rock, has become the sixth divorce attorney, according to Kanye. TMZ.

Since Cohen is in New York and Kanye’s divorce is being filed in Los Angeles, the rapper has also hired attorney Nicholas A Salick of Salick Family Law Group, APLC, of ​​Beverly Hills, as counsel in California, the site reports.

Cohen is the sixth lawyer Kanye has hired in his divorce from Kim. Kanye is still working to settle custody and property issues with his ex-wife.

Last month, Kanye’s fifth divorce attorney, Samantha Spector, withdrew from the case over an irreconcilable breakup with the rapper.

Prior to Spector, West fired attorney Chris Melcher from his duties in the case, TMZ reported in March.

Insiders told the outlet at the time that West had been indecisive in his dealings with Melcher, sometimes seeking a settlement and sometimes seeking a lawsuit against her.

At the time of West’s transfer from Melcher to Spector, Kardashian’s attorney Laura Wasser said West had “strategically” switched attorneys in an effort to slow down the legal process in the split. Mirror reported.

Kardashian filed to divorce West in February 2021 after more than six years of marriage and four children together.

She began dating comedian Pete Davidson last fall, but they broke up in August after nine months together.

Kim has been in a contentious co-parenting relationship with Kanye since their split.

A few weeks ago, Kanye accused Kim and Hulu, the streaming giant of the Kardashian family, of tracking him down in choosing where the kids go to school.

He compared himself to a sperm donor without a say, and was furious that the kids went to a posh private school in LA when he wanted them to attend his school, the Donda Academy, founded in honor of his late mother.

In a clear sign of victory — or at least peace with Kim — he recently shared videos of his two oldest children North, nine, and Saint, six, at his school — the Donda Academy. They appeared happily singing and dancing with a group of other children and teachers.

In a recent interview with Good morning AmericaKanye — who now only goes by Ye — explained that while he and Kim battled over the kids’ education, he also battled Adidas and Gap over creative control over his Yeezy products.

“These little nuances… there were parallels at Gap, at Adidas, and at my house. It was kind of a disregard for the voice I have in something I co-created. I co-made the kids, I co-made the product at Gap and I co-made the product at Adidas,” he said.

“I want my children to go to Donda and I have to fight for that.

However, he said he had a “new respect” for Kim and that he always wanted her to be “calm.”

“This is the mother of my children, and I apologize for all the stress I have caused, even in my frustration, because God is calling me to be stronger. I need this person to be less stressed and of the best, healthy mind and as calm as possible to raise those kids at the end of the day,” he said.