Milo Yiannopoulos was deported to the United Kingdom on Friday, one day after ICE officers arrested him at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
Yiannopoulos had entered the United States legally through New York City on May 14, 2019, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS said Yiannopoulos later missed an immigration hearing. An immigration judge issued a final removal order July 22.
Kanye West Exec Milo Yiannopoulos Flown Back To UK After Getting Deported by ICE https://t.co/jOkbNhhzAY
— TMZ (@TMZ) August 29, 2026
Ye Played New Orleans Without Mentioning Yiannopoulos
Ye was at Caesars Superdome Friday night. An eyewitness there later told TMZ that the rapper “didn’t say a damn word” about Yiannopoulos during the roughly two-and-a-half-hour show. TMZ’s footage showed Ye dressed in red with his head covered on a large globe-shaped stage.
The set included “Through the Wire,” “Jesus Walks” and “Good Life.” Ty Dolla $ign joined him later, and TMZ reported that their portion of the night included Backstreet Boys music and Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack.” “King” opened the show, “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1” was restarted twice, and “Love Lockdown” appeared as a tour debut.
The concert was Ye’s first in New Orleans in 13 years. His previous stop came on Dec. 5, 2013, when the Yeezus Tour reached New Orleans Arena. Kendrick Lamar was the opening act.
Yiannopoulos Had Continued to Work Around Ye
A source familiar with Ye’s operation told TheWrap in May that Yiannopoulos continued to advise the rapper. Their history also includes Ye’s November 2022 visit to Mar-a-Lago: reporting citing NBC News said Yiannopoulos helped arrange for Nick Fuentes to travel with Ye for the trip. Ye and Fuentes dined there with Donald Trump on Nov. 22, and Yiannopoulos later said he wanted the visit to make Trump’s life “miserable.”
Yiannopoulos signed a Yeezy letter as Chief of Staff on Feb. 26, 2024. It went to streaming platforms, publishers, stores, unions, lyrics websites and music-data companies asking them to stop using the name Kanye West. The letter described Ye as being “on par with presidents and popes” and said his name change was legal and permanent.
The legal change had been approved more than two years earlier. Ye filed the petition in August 2021, citing personal reasons. On Oct. 18, a Los Angeles judge approved the change from Kanye Omari West to Ye, with no middle or last name.
On May 1, Yiannopoulos sent Ye another letter. This one was his resignation. Ye had been pursuing an adult-entertainment business, and Yiannopoulos wrote that he could not take part in producing or distributing pornography for moral and religious reasons. He offered an orderly handover by May 31 “or the first pornography shoot, whichever is sooner.” If Yeezy permanently abandoned the plan, Yiannopoulos wrote, “it would be an honor to serve you again.”
A source familiar with Ye’s operation told TheWrap this May that Yiannopoulos was still advising him, though Ye and Yeezy have not publicly announced a current title for him.
Court Records Surfaced After the ICE Arrest
Another set of records involving Yiannopoulos surfaced Saturday, after his ICE arrest. TMZ reported that text messages filed in his court dispute with estranged husband John Campbell included a March 2025 message attributed to Yiannopoulos saying, “I was only using you for a Green Card.” Yiannopoulos disputes the authenticity of at least some of the messages.
He called some of them “obvious fakes” and said Campbell had secretly sent messages from Yiannopoulos’s phone to Campbell’s phone. Reuters could not immediately reach Yiannopoulos for comment after the deportation. The Washington Post reported Saturday that Yiannopoulos had not posted on X since Thursday.