The gospel choir from Kanye West’s Sunday Service has been «stripped of its charity status»
According to reports, Kanye West’s Sunday Service gospel choir has lost its charitable status.
The verdict comes three years after the 47-year-old Ye rapper failed to file tax returns for the company. Ye, who is facing lawsuits from former personnel and was notably booted from a succession of big-brand deals due to his anti-Semitic outbursts, is now facing legal action.
The gospel group’s tax exemption status was removed on May 15, per the IRS website.According to The US Sun, the explanation was «for not filing a Form 990-series return or notice for three consecutive years.»
In 2019, Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband founded Sunday Service.Since it was initially registered as a 501(c)(3) organization, it was granted exemption from federal income tax.
‘Religious, educational, benevolent, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, supporting national or international amateur sports competition, or prevention of cruelty to children or animals organizations’ is how they are categorized.
The loss of the charity status remained in effect as of August 12. Every weekend the Grammy winner performed with the gospel choir when Kanye first opened the Sunday Service.
In 2019, they made their stage debut at the Coachella music festival. They also worked with Texas-based Pastor Joel Osteen, who had Kanye perform at the Lakewood Church in Houston in November of the same year.
Although the event’s tickets were free, attendees sold them online for as much as $500. A few of Kanye’s Sunday Service employees and members have legal difficulties with him; in 2020, they filed class action lawsuits against the rapper alleging maltreatment.
At the time, the performer-turned-fashion designer was accused by over 500 performers and about 300 crew workers of breaking California labor regulations by underpaying them and depriving them of food and bathroom breaks.
One of them was Michael Pearson, a Sunday Service performer, who said he was paid a daily rate of $250 and was not allowed to take breaks.In addition, he said that when transportation was not available, artists stood or squatted on the ground all day before walking home.
Although they were requesting more than $10.5 million in damages, it was reported in June that Kanye and the hundreds of Sunday Service performers and personnel reached a $1.35 million settlement.
Kim has secured a first-look agreement with Disney’s 20th Television in order to work on written programming.
The forty-three-year-old reality TV veteran signed on following her roles in the most recent season of FX’s American Horror Story and the upcoming courtroom drama All’s Fair on Hulu, both of which are produced by the 58-year-old writer-director Ryan Murphy, a major force in the entertainment industry.
The mother-of-four will collaborate on a sitcom based on her best-selling book The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness with her friend La La Anthony, 42, and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, 50, as part of her first-look pact.
Deadline reports that Kenya is developing the show, dubbed Group Chat, and that La La, whose real name is Alani Nicole Vázquez, will play the lead role.
«I’m incredibly interested in telling stories that are personal, complicated, relevant, from my own experiences and those that are familiar to me,» Kim stated in a statement regarding her most recent professional move.
