A lawsuit filed against Kanye West claims he fired a housekeeper for refusing to remove all the windows and electricity from his Malibu home so Kanye could create a "bomb shelter."
According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles and reviewed by NBC News, Tony Saxon, a former project manager and property custodian, alleges labor code violations including hazardous working conditions, unpaid wages and retaliatory termination. .
Saxon told NBC that Kanye wanted to transform the beach house, which he bought in 2021 for $57 million, into a "bomb shelter from the 1910s." In addition to demolishing the marble bathrooms, the rapper wanted to remove the windows, plumbing and electrical systems and replace the stairs with sliding structures,” Saxon said.
“We'd take all that out and build him a bat cave,” he said.
Kanye "didn't want electricity," Saxon added. "He just wanted plants. He just wanted candles. And he just wanted everything open and dark. You couldn't keep food in that house because you didn't have a refrigerator. You didn't there were windows."
Saxon also stated that the rapper did not want to be a "slave" to modern conveniences and wanted to avoid being "accessible" by the US government.
On Instagram, the former employee claims she worked and lived in miserable conditions at Kanye's house. "I was a PRISONER of the house. I couldn't just leave it because I was the only one with a key authorized and trusted to live there. I was trapped and had to sleep on the floor," he writes.
The lawsuit says Kanye has only made two payments despite promising $20,000 a week. Saxon claims he worked for about two months.
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