Kanye West LOSES civil case over $57m house
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Hello and welcome back to Fame Under Fire from BBC Sounds with me, Anushka Matanda-Doughty. Today, Kanye or Ye on trial. The controversial rapper has been in court this week fighting against a $1.7 million claim brought by a former employee, Tony Saxon, who worked on one of his houses. Saxon said that West withheld wages and made him work long hours in unsafe conditions, including telling him he could not leave the property and waking him up at 3 a.m. to ask why he's not working. The jury were shown a picture of a small mattress on a concrete floor that Saxon claims he slept on while working at the property in Malibu. In closing arguments, Ye's lawyer, Andrew Chukaski, depicted Saxon as an unreliable witness, saying, quote, the lies are so deep and so wicked that not a thing can be believed that came out of his mouth.
He also said that Saxon was a, quote, professional victim. But the jury has ruled in Saxon's favor and a $140,000 payout for lost wages and medical expenses is headed Kanye's way. This trial, in true yay fashion, has not been traditional. For one, he appeared to fall asleep on the stand, although his lawyer argued against this, saying he wasn't asleep, he was bored, saying this is, quote, beneath him. We have all the details of what went down. So, of course, joining me right now to go through it all is our resident trial attorney, Sean Kent from South Carolina. Hi, Sean. Hey, Anushka. How are you guys doing? I'm good. Were you looking down at all those AI fruit videos I've been sending you?
If you send me one more AI fruit video with an orange or a banana, we will fight you.
Because why are they always cheating on each other? And it's like, what a Molina. But OK, so, yeah, I think that this is more important than whatever trial you're prepping for at the moment. Of course. No, not at all. But second to that, second to those AI videos in importance is this Kanye West trial. potentially the first of many. He's involved in a lot of different civil litigation. We've been through some of it in this program. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go and listen to the episode we did on Lauren Persosha, his former personal assistant, with Arik Fadali as her lawyer. But Sean, this is another civil case. We have a verdict on this one, but can you just remind everybody the difference between civil and criminal?
The easiest way to talk about it is if you are sued civilly, you're not going to go to jail. This is about your money and or your property. If you're sued criminally, that is about your personal liberty, that there is a chance criminally that you can be incarcerated.
Yeah, cool Diddy and see how he feels about that.
Diddy would pay any amount to get out as he tried.
Yeah, multiple times. Well, let's talk about the case then. For those of you who haven't been following along to what's been going on in court with Kanye or as he prefers to be called, Ye West, we have our plaintiff. Can you just define plaintiff for me?
So a The plaintiff is the person who is filing a lawsuit. So for argument's sake, if I wanted to file a lawsuit against Anushka for sending me just awful Instagram videos of bananas and oranges and so forth, I would be the plaintiff. I would be suing Anushka. That sounds so bad out of context.
Jesus Christ. That sounds so wrong. If you didn't listen to the beginning of the program, it's AI dancing fruit.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:12
2
What led to Kanye West's civil case involving his Malibu mansion?
4:12–5:20
3
What claims did handyman Tony Saxon make against Kanye West?
5:20–8:13
4
How did the jury respond to the evidence presented in the trial?
8:13–9:03
5
What role did Kanye West's lawyer play in the trial?
9:03–9:43
6
What were the implications of the verdict for Kanye West?
9:43–19:11
7
How does the concept of retaliation apply in this case?
19:11–28:31