US rapper Kanye “Ye” West and his Australian wife Bianca Censori were reportedly escorted out of the 2025 Grammy Awards after they showed up to the event “uninvited”, with Censori potentially facing legal trouble for a stunt pulled
Kanye West and Bianca Censori accused of gatecrashing 2025 Grammy Awards ceremony
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Kanye West with his wife Bianca Censori at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Photo / Getty Images
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Ahead of the Grammys, West arrived casually dressed in an all-black outfit, with only a silver pendant necklace, glasses and diamond grills as accessories. Meanwhile, Censori wore a black fur coat that she held closed with her hand as they arrived.
As the couple stopped on the red carpet to take photos, West stood directly facing the cameras while Censori stood the other way and removed the coat from her body, revealing a see-through dress underneath.
As the coat fell to the floor, Censori turned for frontal photos with West and on her own. The couple then carried on, with a video from the event showing a staff member helping Censori back into her coat.
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“Is this not indecent exposure?” one person wrote on Instagram after their red carpet walk.
A source of Page Six appeared to confirm Entertainment Tonight‘s report, telling the outlet that police officers removed West and Censori from the Grammys following “the crazy outfit moment they pulled on the carpet”.
The insider added the stunt “was an attempt to replicate the album cover of Vultures“, West’s 2024 album with Ty Dolla $ign, which features Censori on the cover in a similar nude outfit, with tall boots and a piece of fabric over her behind.
However, another source told Variety that the claims West and Censori weren’t invited were “not true”, and that West merely “walked the carpet, got in his car and left.”
Several outlets have included photos of West and Censori leaving the Grammys following the red carpet walk in their reports.
After Entertainment Tonight removed their report from social media, the space was filled with people questioning whether the claim was true - particularly as West had been nominated for a Grammy in this year’s ceremony.
“How is he uninvited when he was nominated,” wrote one person wrote on Instagram.
“I don’t think it had anything to do with being uninvited and everything to do with how she was dressed,” wrote another fan on X.
Those who tuned into the red carpet arrivals raised concerns that Censori’s revealing outfit may have actually broken California’s penal code.
California Penal Code 314(1) defines indecent exposure as “when a person exposes his or her naked body or genitals in front of anyone who could be annoyed or offended by it,” according to The Mirror.
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To be held liable for the offence, an individual would have to “intentionally expose your genitals or naked body; expose yourself in front of someone who might be offended or annoyed by it; intend to direct attention to yourself; and intend to sexually gratify yourself or offend someone else when you do it”.
For those who have a record of committing two or more criminal offences, indecent exposure is treated as a felony and could potentially end in jail time or with a requirement to register as a sex offender for at least 10 years.
