An angry Kanye West, aka Ye, grabbed a phone from a paparazzi photographer and threw it into oncoming traffic while she recorded him, according to claims in a lawsuit filed in Ventura County. Video of the incident was recorded outside a Newbury Park sports facility on Jan.

Rapper Kanye West is reported to have been sued for assault and recklessness by a photographer over a heated argument.

Kanye West sued by paparazzo for grabbing and throwing her phone on the street. The incident happened earlier this year in January. Deets inside.

Kanye West is being sued by paparazzo Nichol Lechmanik, after a January incident where Ye seized her phone and threw it into traffic.

A paparazzi photographer is suing Ye — the musician formerly known as Kanye West — for assault, battery and negligence after he was caught on-camera grabbing her phone and throwing it

Kanye West is being sued after he aggressively took a photographer's phone and threw it. He's facing battery and negligence charges.

Although I am not a world-famous artist as is Ye, I have just as much right to work as he does,” Nichol Lechmanik said.