October 26, 2017: 06:19pm
On Wednesday, the day after his shoe brand was dropped by Adidas, Yeezus made an unauthorized visit to the headquarters of Skechers in Los Angeles, where he was escorted off the premises.
West arrived at one of the company's corporate offices without being invited.
West and his party were removed from the property after a brief discussion.
The company said it doesn't want to work with West and condemns his recent divisive remarks.
The gossip website reported that West was in town on Wednesday.
The statement said that West showed up without warning to the corporate offices of the company.
West made antisemitic and controversial remarks over the last month and was dropped by Adidas on Tuesday. Adidas said it would lose $246 million due to the severing of ties with West. Without the Adidas contract, West fell off the list of billionaires. He is now thought to be worth 400 million dollars. In the wake of West's comments, Gap and Foot Locker said they wouldn't sell any current or future West products.
Forbes valued the Greenberg family, which founded and owns 20% of publicly-traded Skechers, as the 163rd-richest family in America in 2015. Robert and Michael Greenberg are the company's directors. According to Forbes, the Greenbergs are worth at least a billion dollars.
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