KANYE West has courted controversy at every turn of his career, but he may have found his match in his wife’s family.
This week, Bianca Censori and her relatives were thrust into the spotlight after shocking claims her rapper husband told her mother he “wanted to have sex with her”.
The 47-year-old, known as Ye, faces a slew of shocking allegations in a bombshell lawsuit brought by his former assistant Lauren Pisciotta, who accuses him of trying to rape her twice, including once after drugging her at a Diddy party, and choking her.
She further alleged in the suit that Ye boasted about sick sexual fantasies including texting Bianca “I want to f*** your mom”, before clarifying: “I want you to watch me f*** your mom”.
After being approached by reporters, the 29-year-old’s mother Alexandra said she “wouldn’t be drawn into the latest claims” but allegedly finds Ye “slightly disturbing”.
The serious accusations facing the rapper in the lawsuit join an already lengthy rap sheet from Bianca’s own family, which include crimes like heroin dealing, murder and police assaults, the Australian Daily Mail reports.
The Aussie model’s father and uncles were involved in the criminal underworld, according to the publication, with all three having served prison time – and one famously dodging the death penalty.
Here we look into the Censori family – from the killer compared to legendary mobster Al Capone to heroin charges.
Melbourne’s ‘Al Capone’
The Censori family immigrated from Abruzzo, Italy, to Melbourne in the Sixties, where it is claimed Bianca’s father and uncles fell into criminality from their teenage years.
The most notorious of the clan is Eris, the model’s uncle, who was a known killer and only narrowly dodged the death penalty.
Dubbed “Melbourne’s Al Capone”, he was found guilty of murdering Perth waiter Michael Sideris and sentenced to death in 1982.
Eris was spared the gallows under the ‘royal prerogative of mercy’ due to capital punishment being abolished two years later and instead was handed life imprisonment.
A later trial also found him guilty of heroin possession and he was handed an eight-year sentence and fined $20,000 Australian dollars – around £46,000 today.
In 1999, Eris was released on indefinite parole to be closer to his elderly parents and changed his name to Tony Campana, also the name of a US baseball star.
He faced being thrown back in jail in 2020 after police raided a home in Victoria where he was staying while investigating him for fraud against the Bank of Queensland.
Eris has been cleared of all wrongdoing and now the reclusive former crook is suing the police for defamation, alleging the arrest caused him to “suffer public ridicule, shame and scorn”.
His elder brother Edmundo, who lives a more reclusive life, was known as “Eddie Capone” and was previously convicted of assaulting police officers, theft and making threats, the Mail reports.
Despite the alleged outrageous comments about his wife, Bianca’s father Elia ‘Leo’ Censori is said to “ultimately thinks that Kanye is an okay guy”.
The dad-of-three “appreciates Kanye’s power” and that he “puts Bianca’s safety before anything else… despite his immense fame”, they added.
However, Leo has a surprising past, too. In 1982, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for heroin possession, according to newspaper reports.
Alongside the drug dealing charge, Ye’s in-law, who lives in a $2.8million mansion in Aphington, was also convicted in the County Court in Melbourne for possessing a pistol and full jacketed ammo.
His fortune, earned in Melbourne during the Eighties, was so sizeable that a rival gangster allegedly took out a hit on him and he was given a police escort for his protection, the Herald Sun reports.
