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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.

‘Kardashian-style’ sisters

The other half of Bianca’s family could not be more different, with her glamorous mother and sisters often compared to the Kardashians.

And it appears her sibling Angelina is following most closely in her footsteps, as she is an aspiring model known for her daring fashion sense.

Who is Bianca Censori?

BIANCA Censori is a 29-year-old Australian architectural designer who moved to the US to work for Kanye West’s Yeezy brand in November 2020.

Born on January 5, 1995, in Melbourne, Australia, the 29-year-old started a jewelry company called Nylons after leaving high school.

Bianca later received a degree in architecture at the University of Melbourne, before working as a design consultant for a year.

After working as a student architect for three years, she completed a master’s degree between 2019 and 2020 ahead of moving to Los Angeles.

There she met with West after he is believed to have slid into her DMs and started working for his brand as the pair grew close.

Prior to Yeezy, Bianca worked as a student architect at DP Toscano Architects and as a design consultant at Kelektic, according to her LinkedIn profile.

On Friday, October 6, 2023, The Daily Mail reported Kanye and Bianca wed on December 20, 2022.

The couple tied the knot under a “confidential marriage license” in the state of California.

The two wed in Palo Alto, California, according to the document.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Bianca has an accumulated net worth of $1million, as of February 2024.

In recent years the Aussie model has garnered plenty of attention because of her skimpy outfits.

One video, originally shared by TMZ, showed the former architect student walking barefoot through a casino.

Other times she has been seen walking next to a masked West wearing a revealing bodysuit.

“[Bianca] has the best wardrobe,’ she told Page 13. “I love fashion and I always like to do my own thing. I don’t follow what influencers are doing but have my own take and do my own thing.”

Angelina regularly parties with Bianca and often dons barely-there outfits like her sister – including going braless in a tight white top paired with skimpy pants for a Vultures 2 album listening party.

Her Instagram feed is also full of racy snaps including see-through short-shorts and bikini top ensembles.

The glamorous star, who describes herself as a “film character” online, has a taste for the high life and has been pictured jet-setting between Hawaii and Tokyo.

She also has an expensive wardrobe including two Balenciaga handbags, one of which is known to retail for £2,000.

Less is known about Bianca’s other sister Alyssia, who has a private Instagram account and keeps out of the spotlight.

In her younger years, she was pictured partying with her siblings but now appears to have a more settled family life working as a nurse and mum to son Leandro.

Like others in the Censori family, Alyssia has kept rather tight-lipped on her thoughts about Ye, other than stating she was “super happy” for Bianca after the couple’s 2022 nuptials.

Luxury-loving housewife

Bianca’s mom Alexandra lives a luxurious lifestyle, too, and is often spotted running errands in a Mercedes Benz and carrying a $5,300 black Prada bag.

Alexandra and the rest of the family met Ye in July when he flew the family out to Tokyo for a holiday and to join him at a listening party for Vultures 2, his album as part of rap supergroup ¥$.

There have been conflicting claims from insiders about how she feels about her son-in-law, with some insisting she finds Ye “slightly disturbing”, and others claiming she is happy for them.

One Yeezy source told the Mail: “Of course, Bianca’s parents worry about her jetting all over the world with him, especially when he has gained so many enemies due to his actions.”

They also claimed both Alexandra and Leo were suspicious about Ye’s intentions with their daughter and feared it could quickly fizzle out.

“Her parents found it suspect that he married Bianca one month after his divorce from Kim was finalized,” the source said.

“They really didn’t want Bianca to be his rebound from such a high-profile marriage.”

However, Alexandra reportedly sees a little of her own relationship in Bianca and Ye’s – with her previously warned against being with Leo.

 

The insider said: “Bianca’s mother Alexandra also had plenty of people who told her that she shouldn’t marry Leo back in the day because of his reputation and, luckily, she didn’t listen.

“They know that Bianca does love this man and, in the end, that is what is most important to the both of them.”