Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is being accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he strangled a model on a music video set in 2010 and shoved his fingers in her mouth in what the suit refers to as “pornographic gagging.

This is art. This is f--king art. I am like Picasso,” West allegedly told Jennifer An on the set of a music video in 2010.

Model Jenifer "Jenn" An has accused Kanye West, now known as Ye, in lawsuit that he assaulted her while filming a music video in New York City in 2010.

She has accused him of choking her and ramming his fingers down her throat while he yelled, "This is art ... I am like Picasso"

Kanye West is facing legal action over an alleged assault during a 2010 music video shoot. The plaintiff seeks damages for physical and emotional distress.

“America’s Next Top Model” alum Jenn An has accused Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, of strangling and sexually assaulting her on a music video set in 2010, according to a federal lawsuit she filed this week.

Jenn An, a former contestant on "America's Next Top Model," sued Kanye "Ye" West for an alleged sexual assault and strangulation in 2010.

Kanye West made a music video shoot where he s***ally assaulted model Jenn An, who claims he made her gag and choked her until she blacked out.

Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Kanye West is facing some serious allegations of sexual assault in a newly filed lawsuit from a former America's Next Top Model contestant.

The model Jenifer An claims that West choked and gagged her while filming the visual for his and La Roux’s “In for the Kill”

In the lawsuit filed in New York federal court, the model accused the rapper, of staging "his own production" by asking a camera crew to film him choking her