A new lawsuit claims Kanye West, 46, asked his project manager and property caretaker Tony Saxon, 32, to convert his Malibu home into a retro bomb shelter, where he could allegedly hide from the Clintons and Kardashians. Saxon says he was fired for refusing to redo Ye’s beach house he bought in 2021 for $57 million. Saxon says Ye wanted no windows, plumbing nor electricity, and wanted to replace the stairs with slides.
Saxon told NBC News,
“[Ye wants] a bomb shelter from the 1910s. We were going to be gutting everything out and sort of building him a Bat Cave [where he said he could] hide from the Clintons and Kardashians. He wanted no electricity. He only wanted plants, candles, battery lights; and to have everything open and dark. You can’t keep food in that house, because you had no refrigerator left. You had no windows. I had sea gulls flying in.”
Saxon said Ye didn’t want to be a
“slave”
to modern conveniences, nor be
“accessible”
to the government;
“he wants to be on a privatized Wi-Fi network and have an alternate source of energy.”
He said the living conditions were
“miserable,”
and he even began experiencing a severe back injury, which Ye allegedly ignored.
Three days later, Ye had a team meeting and told Saxon to bring in large generators, but when he refused, he was allegedly told to
“get the hell out. 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.”
Saxon said he was fired on Nov. 5, 2021, after 2 months on the job. Saxon said Ye promised him $20,000/week and only paid him twice; so he’s suing for wrongful retaliatory termination, unpaid wages, and labor code violations (hazardous working conditions). His suit was filed by the same attorneys who are suing Ye over similar
“no windows, no electricity”
demands and hazardous conditions at his private Christian school, Donda Academy, and its predecessor, Yeezy Christian Academy.
