Source: As.com

Condé Nast, the publishing company of Vogue magazine, has filed a four million dollar lawsuit against Drake and rapper 21 Savage, as both artists made their followers believe on social media that they had starred on the cover of the famous fashion magazine of last October.

The deception, which is part of the promotion of his new album Her Loss, went so far that even in the caption of the post, Drake thanked the editor-in-chief of Vogue, Anna Wintour, presenting the fake cover. However, the outlet and Wintour have stated that they hadn’t any information of the campaign and they hadn’t endorsed it.

In addition to the above, copies of the false magazine were circulated, which became viral on social networks, false posters were also placed in New York and numbers were distributed on the streets of cities such as Miami, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Under this scenario, Condé Nast alleges that the promotional materials were artificially created on the image of Vogue, especially using a false cover, with the logo and the exact format of the magazine.

In the lawsuit, it is specified that Condé Nast sent a cease and desist notice on October 31, demanding that Drake and his team stopped the unauthorized use of the Vogue brand, removed the posts from Instagram, ceased any distribution of this magazine and asked to issue a public statement by the artists clarifying that this was not a real cover of the magazine.

Likewise, the publisher requested the payment of four million dollars, or the tripled profits obtained by the musicians for their album and for the false magazine. Everything is false, and nothing has been authorized by Condé Nast," reads the lawsuit filed on Monday night, November 7, in a federal court in Manhattan, New York.

At the moment neither Drake nor 21 Savage have publicly responded to the lawsuit.