How Kanye West's marriages and relationships unfolded
Public interviews and court filings trace Kanye West's engagement to Alexis Phifer, his past relationship with Amber Rose, marriage to Kim Kardashian and their divorce. Julia Fox's own account and Bianca Censori's interview document later relationships.
3 August 2007 to 6 February 2026 · 16 dated events · 17 sources
Status in the record · 6 February 2026
Censori described West as her husband in her February 2026 interview. This timeline follows documented public milestones, not a complete dating history.
Coverage through6 February 2026Editorial review2 November 2026
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2007
3 Aug 2007
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West and Alexis Phifer discuss their engagement
In a joint Harper's Bazaar profile, Kanye West and designer Alexis Phifer appeared as an engaged couple. West credited Phifer with helping shape his style.
In an interview with XXL, Amber Rose referred to West as her former partner and said she wished him happiness. This dates her public account, rather than assigning an unverified start or end date to their relationship.
Kim Kardashian confirmed her engagement to West in an interview with Entertainment Tonight published five days later. She described their long friendship as a foundation for the relationship.
Vogue published its joint cover profile of Kardashian and West ahead of their wedding. The interview and family photographs also publicly identified their daughter North.
In Vogue's published Met Gala interview, Kardashian said she had chosen her wedding dress. The appearance documented the couple's preparations before their marriage later that month.
Kardashian and West married on 24 May 2014, the date recorded in her later court filing. West separately described their Florence wedding in his own GQ interview.
In GQ's published interview, West spoke about learning from Kardashian and the strength he saw in working as a team. His comments provide his own account of the early marriage.
Kardashian and West discussed their shared design choices with Architectural Digest. The accompanying family portrait identified their four children: North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.
In a signed declaration, Kardashian said the marriage had broken down and asked to end their marital status separately from the remaining divorce issues. The declaration was her request, not a court decision.
Julia Fox publishes her own account of dating West
In a first-person piece for Interview, Julia Fox said she had met West on New Year's Eve and described their subsequent dates. She did not announce an engagement or marriage.
In her Vogue interview, Kardashian said she had begun prioritising her own happiness and connected that change to her divorce. This was her explanation of the decision.
West responds to the request for separate marital status
West's lawyers filed a response opposing the requested order without additional legal protections. The filing addressed the conditions for ending marital status separately from the remaining issues.
At the hearing, Judge Steve Cochran granted Kardashian's request to become legally single, according to AP's courtroom account. Other divorce issues remained unresolved. In a statement to Us Weekly, West's lawyer described his objections as procedural.
In a Vanity Fair interview, Bianca Censori described West as her husband and said they grew close while working together. Her account confirms the marriage without establishing an exact wedding date.
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