Kanye “Ye” West to Pay Contractor Forced to Live at Malibu Mansion $140K in Mixed Trial Verdict

Kanye “Ye” West has been forced to pay a former contractor he hired to rework a famous Malibu mansion into an “off the grid” self-sufficient compound $140,000, after an L.A. jury delivered a mixed verdict in the weeks-long labor dispute and trial.

In the trial, which went on for two weeks at Los Angeles Superior Court, a verdict was announced on Wednesday after the jury decided Tuesday night that Ye, who has shed his birthname in favor of the two-letter nickname, must pay Tony Saxton for injuries suffered at the property while the unlicensed contractor was working for the rapper. Saxton had sought $1.7 million in compensatory damages.

The mixed verdict will see him handed $100,000 for past and future medical expenses and $40,000 for past pain and suffering. But no awards for damages involving future pain and suffering or punitive damages were granted to the plaintiff. Saxon had not been wrongfully terminated…