Courts and Crime
Jennifer An alleges West assaulted her during the filming of La Roux’s “In for the Kill” video in 2010
Model Jennifer An, who rose to prominence as a finalist on the 2009 season of America’s Next Top Model, is speaking out against Kanye West in a new interview with the BBC. In 2024, she filed a civil suit against the rapper describing how he allegedly choked her and used his fingers to simulate oral sex on her during a shoot for La Roux’s “In for the Kill” music video in 2010. The footage was not included in the final cut. “I feel like he was like trying to touch as much as he could,” she told the news network.
She also described how she felt unsafe, as his alleged actions caught her by surprise. “All of a sudden he just reaches a hand out and starts choking me, and I’m just not sure what’s happening,” she said. “And then, he pulled his other hand out and starts choking me with both hands, and then starts smearing my makeup all over my face and sticking his hands inside of my mouth.” What West did to her makeup, she said, “just felt wrong.” When he finished, she said West, “yelled something like, ‘this is art, I’m Picasso.'” She claims he said something along the lines of, “OK, I got what I want,” and left.
