Kanye West Wins Contractor Lawsuit

Two weeks ago a civil lawsuit filed against Kanye West by the contractor for his former Malibu beach house, kicked off with Ye's attorneys accusing the contractor of being a crackhead [click here if you missed that].

The jury must have agreed...

From The Daily Mail

Kanye West and his team are taking a victory lap after a jury awarded a contractor suing him $140,000 - 'a small fraction' of the $1.7 million he had been seeking with the litigation.

West's spokesperson Milo Yiannopoulos told the Daily Mail in a statement that the contractor, Tony Saxon, recovered 'only a small fraction of what his lawyers demanded' with the $140,000 - after asking the jury for 'approximately $1.7 million.'

Yiannopoulos said the jury rejected almost all of [Saxon's] claims in the case, which saw both West and his spouse Bianca Censori take the stand to testify.

'Although the jury found that Saxon qualified as an employee for certain purposes,' he said, 'they awarded no damages for lost wages, overtime, waiting-time penalties, retaliation, punitive damages, or any other statutory penalties.

'The only damages awarded were $140,000 related to Saxon’s claim that he was injured while working on the property.'

West Coast Trial Lawyers attorney Neama Rahmani told the Daily Mail Wednesday that his client Saxon was 'relieved' and 'vindicated' as the case drew to a close.

The verdict handed down to West on Wednesday was split into $100,000 for Saxon's medical expenses, past and present; and $40,000 for past pain and suffering, Rolling Stone reported after reviewing the court ruling.

Saxon did not get anything for future pain and suffering or punitive damages, according to legal docs reviewed by the outlet.

West had not been acting in 'malice, oppression, or fraud' in firing Saxon from the construction project, which the jury ruled was not a wrongful termination, according to legal docs.