Kanye West has FINALLY seen his children again. Well, three of them, at least.
On Tuesday, the Hurricane rapper was spotted at a 7-Eleven convenience store in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan with three of his children in tow: Saint, 9, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 5. His and ex-wife Kim Kardashian‘s eldest daughter, 11-year-old North, wasn’t in the store with them when paparazzi cameras spotted the group, and it’s not clear whether she had made it to Japan.
For the three younger kids, tho, the sighting was a HUGE deal because this reportedly marks the first time he’s seen them in four months! Seriously!!
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According to DailyMail.com, Bianca Censori‘s husband has been away from the United States for so long that he reportedly hasn’t seen his kids in a whopping 118 days. That’s SO long!
According to one eyewitness who was at the story, the Yeezy mogul and his fam arrived on the scene in a black van with bodyguards in tow. A few locals recognized the rapper, but he apparently declined to take selfies when people came up to him.
The source explained:
“A black van pulled out the front and all of a sudden the kids have gone running in and Kanye followed behind, trying to hide in the 7-Eleven with his hood up. The kids were buying up the store — they had two carrier bags full of random lollipops and snacks. Myself and a couple of other families noticed him.”
Snack run!
From a family standpoint, this is the first confirmed sighting where Ye and his little ones were in the same spot at the same time since back in September when the kids were in the building for a Vultures 2 listening event in Haikou, China. Since then, there has reportedly been no in-person bonding time. Brutal!
Throughout these past four months, Ye and Censori have been traveling a LOT, too. They’ve popped up in Japan, elsewhere in China, way out in the Maldives, and even rang in the New Year in Dubai. But none of those outings have been with his four children. And none of those outings have been in the United States, either! Which, for some insiders, is a REALLY suspicious sign…
See, even despite California’s blazing infernos that have popped up perilously close to the kids’ home base in the Calabasas area, Ye still hasn’t returned home. But according to one source, that has nothing to do with the fires. Instead, they say it’s specifically because Ye is “terrified” of facing similar treatment to that which has befallen Diddy! Yes, really!
On Monday, DailyMail.com quoted an insider who asserted the music mogul has been avoiding a return to the States because he doesn’t want to potentially face more civil — or criminal — consequences amid the already endless lawsuits that just seem to keep popping up against him! The source noted:
“Kanye’s reasoning for not being [in America] has nothing to do with his children and has everything to do with the multiple lawsuits that he is facing in the States. With all this stuff with Diddy, Kanye is terrified.”
Whoa!!
If you do the math on this, the timeline of Ye’s endless round-the-globe road tripping goes back to June of last year. Strangely enough, that was the exact same month that saw the rapper named in a still-ongoing wrongful termination and sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by former assistant Lauren Pisciotta.
The claims in that suit were extremely shocking. And most notably, the filing included an allegation that Ye sexually assaulted Pisciotta during a Diddy party at a Santa Monica recording studio.
Now, to hear this new source tell it, that lawsuit — and the others Ye is currently facing — has motivated him to remain thousands of miles away from American soil. He apparently doesn’t want the Diddy treatment, it would seem.
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