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Not just Kanye West, these celebrities also got dumped by brands for their harsh words and actions

Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter again.
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Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter again.

Kanye West has been facing a lot of criticism for his anti-Semitic comments. Due to his controversial remarks, many renowned brands like Adidas and Balenciaga have severed all their business deals with the singer.

Madonna
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Madonna

Madonna at NYC

In 1989, Pepsi canned an expensive ad featuring Madonna and her hit "Like a Prayer" over complaints and boycott threats related to religious imagery and eroticism in the song's official video.

In the video, a scantily-clad Madonna, then 30, dances in front of burning crosses, writhes on the floor of a church and kisses a black Jesus who comes to life. The outrage was felt as far away as Rome, where the Vatican condemned it.
 

Whoopi Goldberg
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Whoopi Goldberg

The US actress paid dearly for making a joke about president George W. Bush's name that involved female genitalia at a Democratic fundraiser in 2004. 

Anglo-Dutch food group Unilever promptly dropped Goldberg from its campaign for a food supplement, saying she had offended consume.

Sharon Stone
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Sharon Stone

The 'Basic Instinct' star caused a furore in 2008 when she claimed that a massive earthquake in southwest China, which left nearly 88,000 people dead or missing, was bad "karma" for Beijing's treatment of Tibet.

Stone was referring to a crackdown earlier in Tibet on protests against Chinese rule. Her remark sparked uproar in China, prompting Christian Dior fashion house to drop her from its local skincare ads. Stone apologised.
 

Kate Moss
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Kate Moss

British supermodel Kate Moss was cancelled by a slew of sponsors in 2005 after a British tabloid ran grainy pictures appearing to show her snorting cocaine.

The incident took place at a London recording studio where Moss's then lover, musician and self-confessed drug addict Pete Doherty was recording tracks with his band Babyshambles.

Global fashion retailer H&M, French fashion house Chanel, Britain's Burberry and cosmetics company Rimmel all dumped her but after a few years she had again built up a stable of sponsors, including Mango and Versace.