Kanye West Sues Construction Manager, Claims Sabotage In Malibu Mansion Sale

Kanye West goes to drop his new album BULLY later this month, nevertheless it looks like he has some authorized points to resolve amid this course of. Per The Los Angeles Times, a lawsuit from Ye towards building supervisor Tony Saxon emerged in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday (January 8).

This is over the sale of Ye’s former Malibu mansion. Specifically, the lawsuit claims Saxon and the regulation agency West Coast Trial Lawyers unrightfully positioned a lien on the property for $1.8 million. It additionally alleges the perpetration of “an aggressive publicity marketing campaign designed to strain Ye, chill potential transactions, and extract fee on disputed claims already being litigated in courtroom.”

This follows Saxon’s own lawsuit against Kanye West from 2023, claiming labor regulation violations, unpaid wages, distressing office circumstances, and incapacity discrimination. He sought to make sure compensation for his work by means of the lien, and the Chicago artist beforehand denied his claims.

“These statements have been designed to create public strain and to intrude with the Plaintiffs’ skill to promote and finance the Property by falsely conveying that Defendants held an adjudicated, enforceable proper to dam a transaction and divert sale proceeds,” the lawsuit reads. It additionally famous how the courtroom launched the lien from the bond, however how this nonetheless impacts actual property standings and different sale metrics.

The history of this Kanye West Malibu property is lengthy and complicated. He initially purchased it in 2021 for $57.3 million, gutted it in an try and make a “bomb shelter,” and offered it to Steven Belmont’s Belwood Investments for $21 million. But since then, many different authorized and monetary disputes stored its standing and its last purchaser hanging within the air.

This is all within the background of Kanye West’s upcoming album BULLY. We bought extra info on the discharge resulting in its last drop on Friday, January 30. This consists of the tracklist, the sale of bodily variants, and the declare from Ye’s crew that he won’t use synthetic intelligence on the challenge. We will see the way it shapes up, and the way this long-running Malibu saga lastly involves a detailed.