#Socialites, Kanye West has been sued again! This time it’s for wanting to transform his Malibu home into a retro “bomb shelter from the 1910s.” A new lawsuit claims he asked his project manager to remove all of the windows and electricity from the home, and allegedly told him, “If you don’t comply, you’ll be considered an enemy.”
According to a new lawsuit filed on Wednesday (September 13) in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Tony Saxon, a 32-year-old former project manager, home security guard, and property caretaker, for Ye, claimed that the 46-year-old rapper fired him for refusing to strip his Tadao Ando-designed beach house, which he bought in 2021 for $57 million, of its custom windows and electricity.
Saxon also said Ye wanted to demolish the marble bathrooms, remove all of the plumbing, and replace the stairs with slides. Speaking with NBC News, he said that he is a jack of all trades and was hired by Ye through mutual friends. As for Ye’s vision with the renovations, Saxon said he wanted to make the Malibu home like “a bomb shelter from the 1910s.” Saxon said, “We were going to be gutting all of that out and sort of building him a Bat Cave [where he said he could] hide from the Clintons and Kardashians.”
Saxon said he initially thought that Ye just wanted to make an “art project” out of the place, and not a place to live in. So as things became clear that that wasn’t the case, he said he grew weary. He said, “As we progress, it’s becoming clear that, no, he wants to live in here. [Ye] wanted no electricity. He only wanted plants. He only wanted candles. He only wanted battery lights. And he just wanted to have everything open and dark.”
He added, “You can’t keep food in that house, because you had no refrigerator left. You had no windows. I had seagulls flying in.” Saxon said Ye didn’t want to be a “slave” to modern conveniences, nor did he want to be “accessible” to the government. Saxon added, “He wants to be on a privatized Wi-Fi network. He wants to have an alternate source of energy. He wants to have no doors, no windows, no fixtures, just concrete.”
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But when Saxon started to fire back on Ye’s demands, he said Ye started to become unresponsive to his complaints. Saxon said he was living and sleeping in the Malibu home as it was being worked on it, and described the conditions as “miserable.”
Three days after Saxon complained about a severe back injury at a team meeting, which is the same one where Ye made his windows and electricity removal demands, he was fired. Saxon said he was terminated on November 5, 2021, after working for Ye for about two months. He said Ye had also promised him $20,000 per week, but he’d only been paid twice (once for one week’s salary and another for the project’s budget).
Saxon said Ye allegedly insisted that he move large generators in the Malibu home, and when he refused, he was told to “get the hell out,” and that he would be “considered an enemy if he did not comply.” The lawsuit reportedly claimed Ye said, “If you don’t do what I say, you’re not going to work for me, I’m not gonna be your friend anymore and you’ll just see me on TV.”
In addition to wrongful retaliatory termination, Saxon has cited unpaid wages, and labor code violations, including hazardous working conditions, in his lawsuit. However, he does not hold any bad blood against Ye . He said, “Hopefully we can bury the hatchet, but I physically cannot do any more work like that anymore. My neck and my back have been destroyed.”
Furthermore, it is reported that Saxon’s lawsuit was filed by the same attorneys who are suing Kanye West over allegations regarding similar “no windows, no electricity” demands at his private Christian school, Donda Academy, and its predecessor, Yeezy Christian Academy.
In April, a lawsuit was filed by two former Donda teachers, alleging several bizarre rules, like bans on chairs, artwork on walls, climbing the stairs, and eating outside food. Per the lawsuit, there was only one food item on the school menu: sushi.
In a separate lawsuit, the former assistant principal said that after the school opened in August 2021, there was no electricity in the venue and that lessons were taught using generators. They also alleged that there was no glass in its windows. A trial is scheduled to begin in the teachers’ lawsuit in April 2025.
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