Milo Yiannopoulos, a key figure in the artist formerly known as Kanye West’s orbit, has been detained by ICE in Louisiana, though the details of the detainment weren’t immediately clear.
As first reported by TMZ on Friday (August. 28), Yiannopoulos, whose title at YZY as of May of last year was Head of Special Projects, is said to still be in custody at an ICE detention center. Detainment records viewed by Complex do indeed list him as currently being “in ICE custody” as of this writing.
As for the Louisiana location of the detainment, it’s worth noting that Ye has a show slated for New Orleans this evening. At publication time, Ye himself had not publicly addressed Yiannopoulos’s detainment.
Complex has reached out to Yiannopoulos for comment, as well as to ICE media reps. This story may be updated.
41-year-old Yiannopoulos, who initially rose to prominence as a far-right provocateur, was born in the U.K. Still, he was involved with U.S. politics in the early 2020s, including in connection with Ye’s unsuccessful presidential campaign.
Though he at one point split from the larger YZY enterprise, citing then-active plans on Ye’s part to launch a porn division, Yiannopoulos later returned.
