Yeezy sell-off was Krafted

BILLIONAIRE Patriots owner Robert Kraft helped craft a charitable way for Adidas to unload $1.3 billion of its Yeezy apparel made by disgraced antisemitic rapper Kanye West.

Adidas has said that a significant portion of the profits from its remaining Yeezy items will be donated to five organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change.

The company has not revealed how much it’ll donate — but a source told Page Six it will be a “substantial financial seven-figure payment.” The brand has also said it doesn’t expect to make a profit on the sales.

Adidas released its first batch of leftover Yeezy wares in June, and reports said the sale racked up $565 million in online orders. Now a second batch of the shoes are up. As part of the new wave, shoes sold directly via Adidas in North America will include blue square pins, a symbol created by Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism as part of a $25 million awareness-building campaign.

The blue squares have been publicly worn by celebs including Tom Brady, Mike Tyson, Jon Bon Jovi and Dave Matthews.

Adidas cut West’s deal as a result of his antisemitic rants late last year, which included praise for Hitler, leaving the manufacturer with millions in unsold footwear.

A sports insider told Page Six, “Four or five weeks ago, Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden flew over to see Robert Kraft” and they hatched the plan to include the blue square pins in the shoes for American and Canadian customers.

Said the insider, “Adidas was brave to do what they did. They had the inventory, and they cut Kanye off. They had 15 million pairs, over a billion in value. They were courageous, and you’ve gotta give the credit to their CEO.”

Yesterday, Kraft appeared on a panel called Hate Has No Home Here, as part of the NAACP’s 114th National Convention, with rapper Meek Mill, Fox Sports’ Joy Taylor and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.