Attorneys representing a former caretaker of Ye’s beachfront property in Malibu, California, filed a lien on the house on Monday following stories that the rapper put the property up on the market for $53 million, in accordance with information shared with Enterprise Insider.
In September, Tony Saxon, the previous caretaker and mission supervisor who was employed by Ye in 2021 to finish the house’s development, filed a lawsuit in opposition to the artist, claiming poor and harmful working circumstances. The lawsuit additionally alleged that Ye fired Saxon after elevating issues about a few of the artist’s calls for and nonetheless had but to pay Saxon’s wages.
In December, The Wall Road Journal reported that Ye was promoting the Malibu property for $53 million. The report acknowledged that the home lacked essentially the most primary facilities equivalent to plumbing, doorways, and home windows.
Saxon’s lawyer, Ron Zambrano, mentioned in an emailed assertion that the lien may power Ye to promote the home so as to accumulate the unpaid wages owed to the previous caretaker. In keeping with the lien that was shared with BI, Saxon’s lawyer is asking for greater than $1.8 million.
“If anybody does work on somebody’s home in California and that particular person does not receives a commission, underneath the legislation, we will put a lien on the property and if there’s nonetheless no effort to pay the invoice, a choose may power the particular person to promote the home to repay the laborer,” Zambrano mentioned within the assertion. “So on this case, if somebody desires to purchase Kanye’s Malibu residence, they will must cope with us first. That sale can not occur with out Tony being paid.”
An lawyer for Ye didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Saxon alleged within the lawsuit that his job included “16-hour day labor” and “24/7 safety of the property.”
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For weeks, throughout his employment, Saxon was required to sleep on the ground of the unfinished residence, the lawsuit alleged. Saxon additionally claimed he injured his again on the job.
In keeping with the lawsuit, when Saxon requested the artist for time without work on a number of events, Ye would ignore the request and ask for updates on the mission.
Saxon was fired from his job after pushing again on a few of Ye’s calls for, which included eradicating all the electrical energy and home windows and shifting massive turbines inside the home, the lawsuit alleged.
The Journal reported that the house was put up on the market with none plumbing, electrical energy, home windows, doorways, or HVAC. Jason Oppenheim of the Oppenheim Group actual property agency advised the publication that “a lot of the architectural integrity and the architectural worth of the home exists.”
