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Kanye \u201cYe\u201d West has been forced to pay a former contractor he hired to rework a famous Malibu mansion into an \u201coff the grid\u201d self-sufficient compound $140,000, after an L.A. jury delivered a mixed verdict in the weeks-long labor dispute and trial.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> had not been wrongfully terminated…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kanye \u201cYe\u201d West has been forced to pay a former contractor he hired to rework a famous Malibu mansion into an \u201coff the grid\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2325444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kanye-Ye-West-to-Pay-Contractor-Forced-to-Live-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325446,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325444\/revisions\/2325446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}