Kanye West Challenges $150,000 Jury Award at Malibu Mansion Trial: ‘Cannot Stand’

Kanye West is seeking to overturn the $150,000 jury verdict awarded to handyman Tony Saxon after a recent two-week trial in Los Angeles. Saxon testified he was severely injured while living and working at the $57 million Malibu mansion designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando that West, now known as Ye, purchased for $57 million in 2021. Saxon said Ye planned to transform the luxury contemporary beach house into an off-the-grid bunker and ordered it stripped of all plumbing, toilets, fixtures, cabinets, electricity, and a built-in concrete fireplace.

When Ye sold the property three years later, it fetched $21 million, marking a steep loss. In a new filing obtained by Rolling Stone , Ye’s lawyers Andrew and Catherine Cherkasky argued the $150,000 jury award was not supported by the evidence and should be set aside. “This case went to the jury without a single admissible medical bill, without any medical records establishing injury, and without expert testimony grounded in any reliable causation or valuation methodology,” the lawyers wrote.

They argued that the jury’s award of $50,000 for past...