Kanye West might have broken California law by secretly recording Taylor Swift, even though the recording helped him show Swift knew some of what he planned to say about her in his song Famous.
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Then, in a made-for-TV twist, Kim Kardashian, West’s wife, told GQ there was video of Swift giving the song her okay.
“It’s pretty simple. If someone in California records a conversation which is meant to be confidential … without the permission of the other party, they are subject to being prosecuted for a misdemeanor”, he said. West’s representatives did not return an email seeking the same.
The two-party consent law makes it a felony to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication – namely, a phone call – without the consent of all those involved, Gregory G. Brown, Esq. of Irvine-based business, family and trial law firm Brown & Charbonneau, LLP tells PEOPLE. We can call out Swift for capitalizing on the “angry black man” narrative to paint West in a bad light and bolster her own career, but we can’t pretend like Kanye West doesn’t actually have his problems.
Taylor Swift’s BFF Abigail Anderson has deleted her tweets after receiving death threats. Publicizing it on social media is invasion of privacy, so therefore, Taylor could claim that publicizing it on social media was invasion. So far, there’s no word that’s happened. After hearing the complete and unedited recording in question, the gossip/celeb news site’s legal minds have deduced that although it is illegal under California law to record a “confidential conversation” without the knowledge of the other party, that doesn’t apply in this case because it was knowingly overheard by other people in the room.
Taylor has never denied that conversation took place. That equals out to 3 million more than the sales of all 4 West’s albums combined in total up to that point. “It’s more provocative to say “might still have sex”.
As Kim accurately acknowledged, in NY, consent of only one of the parties who is a part of the conversation is required. “Here is a naked image of her in my video and here is the footage of her talking with me, having a conversation that you may believe we didn’t have, ‘” Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Joe Levy said in an interview.
So, Swift publicly called the song misogynistic but privately told West that the line was a compliment?
Swift took Minaj’s tweet personally.
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The world now knows the truth about Taylor Swift knowing about Kanye West’s lyrics about the pop star in his song Famous after Kim Kardashian released the footage of the phone call on her Snapchat last night, but Taylor may have grounds to sue the couple should she choose. Has any state prosecutor reviewed this matter and decided not to charge West?
