Kanye Westâs wife Bianca Censori will not face legal action for ânudeâ Grammys stunt
West and Censori walked the red carpet at the awards show before swiftly departing
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Kanye Westâs wife Bianca Censori will reportedly not face legal action for her nude look that shocked the Grammys.
The controversial rapper, 47, and the Australian model, 30, arrived on the red carpet together at the Crypto.com arena dressed in all black.
However, Censori later dropped her black feather coat in front of photographers to reveal a sheer mini-dress.
According to TMZ, LAPD sources confirmed that there will be no legal fallout from the stunt as the Grammy Awards is a private event and no one from the show contacted police to make a complaint.
In a statement to Page Six, LA-based lawyer Andrea Oguntula further clarified the legal position: âWhile Ms. Censoriâs outfit undoubtedly pushed the envelope, a charge of indecent exposure in California requires willful public exposure of oneâs genitals with the specific intent to offend or sexually arouse.
âItâs theoretically possible but unlikely sheâll face any criminal prosecution for this incident.â
Kanye West and Bianca Censori on the red carpet at the 2025 Grammy Awards (Getty )
However, Censoriâs outfit may have been in violation of broadcast dress codes. In 2013, Deadline reported that exposed âbreasts, buttocks [and] genitalsâ are banned at the Grammys, per a "Standard and Practice Wardrobe Advisoryâ instated by television network CBS. The document states that âbuttocks and female breastsâ must be "adequately coveredâ in order to be broadcast.
The Federal Communications Commission, which governs rules around US television broadcasts, states in their own advisory that obscene content is not protected by the First Amendment and is âprohibited on cable, satellite and broadcast TV and radio." Those rules prevented CBS and other networks hosting Grammys red carpet shows from airing the stunt.
While some early reports claimed that West and Censori had been âescorted outâ of the Grammys, it later emerged that the couple had simply left the event after walking the red carpet.
Page Six quoted an insider as explaining the stunt âwas an attempt to replicate the album cover of Vultures.â
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The cover of Westâs 2024 album Vultures 1 featured West in all black, including his face covered by a mask, while Censori stood backward beside him naked except for thigh-high boots and a tiny piece of black fabric.
The cover of Westâs 2024 album âVultures 1â (YZY )
Meghan McCain was among those to react to the incident on social media, describing Censori in a now-deleted message on X as a âhostage.â
The 40-year-old blogger and daughter of the late Arizona Senator John McCain, wrote: âI just want and have wanted for years â for Kanye West to leave us all the hell alone.â
âHeâs a repugnant, vile piece of garbage, and his wife looks like a victim and a hostage,â McCain added before taking the tweet down.
West was nominated for Best Rap Song at this yearâs Grammys for his 2024 song âCarnival.â He lost out to Kendrick Lamar, who also won Song of the Year and Record of the Year for his Drake diss track âNot Like Us.â