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A trial is finally offering us a sense of what Kanye West might perhaps have been believing when he bought a $57.3 million Tadao Ando estate, then paid a male to gut it, just to put it up for sale. That mess was an exceptionally bad service relocation that some analyzed as an expensive act of vengeance on an Ando-loving ex.
But according to a lawyer for Tony Saxon, the man paid to remove marble and custom-made kitchen cabinetry, West wished to turn the elegant home into an “off-the-grid shelter” without any windows, no electricity, and, many oddly, no plumbing. “He wanted no toilets,” said Saxon’s lawyer Ron Zambrano, per Rolling Stone‘s report on the trial. “If individuals had to go No. 2, it was a hole in the ground.”
Saxon, a rare-record dealer who isn’t accredited as a specialist, was tapped by West to not simply gut the home but to reside in it– over night and on alert for burglaries, according to the fit he submitted in 2023, looking for back pay for the work and damages for injuries he says he got on the task, including a damaged neck.
In court this week, West’s lawyer, Andrew Cherkasky, declared that Saxon was the one who demanded sleeping at your home so he might end up the task before he was “busted for being unlicensed,” per Rolling Stone. He likewise supposedly contested the concept that West desired a beachfront parking lot, instead saying his customer was searching for an experience for his household that was closer to beach outdoor camping. Saxon, he stated in court, “destroyed the Ando home.”
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