Water sloshes against the wooden boat. It splashes and splashes. The brown-painted boat chugs slowly through a canal in Venice, very close along the bank, right next to a café. Six tourists pass by in a water taxi. They pass the wooden boat and pull out their mobile phones. A man is sitting on the back of the wooden boat: black jacket, black scarf, bare bottom. A woman leaned in front of him. He’s Kanye West, she’s Bianca Censori, who he’s said to have been married to for a few months.

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