A contractor suing Kanye West is looking to call the rapper’s spouse, Bianca Censori, to testify in their ongoing case
Tony Saxon, who initially filed the lawsuit in 2023, has requested in a Los Angeles court order that the Australia-born model/architect, 31, take the stand in the labor-related litigation, TMZ reported after reviewing court documents.
While it was not immediately clear why Saxon cited Censori as a potential witness in the case, a 2024 piece published by The New Yorker indicated that she had been involved as an intermediary at one point.
The legal dispute, which is due back in court later this month, stems from an initial arrangement that West and Saxon reached in September 2021. At the time, the rapper was looking to make a series of drastic changes to an oceanfront Malibu mansion he purchased for more than $57 million.
Saxon told the court in legal documents that, in fulfilling West’s unique specifications, he provided multiple services. They included project management, property caretaker and security.
Saxon said in legal documents that he spent up to 16 hours a day working on the remodel, and sometimes had to sleep on the ground with his coat to remain on schedule.
Saxon said in his legal filing that things between him and the Runaway rapper went awry two months into the endeavor, in November 2021.
The contractor told the court he voiced his opposition to a number of requests West made regarding the renovation of the home.
Saxon said West ordered him to demolish the marble bathrooms and remove all plumbing, windows and electrical equipment.
When West proposed moving large generators inside the house, Saxon told the court he informed West that it would create a major fire hazard.
Saxon said in the suit that West, in response, threatened him and said he would be considered ‘an enemy’ if he did not fulfill his vision.
Saxon said West told him, ‘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 in legal documents that he told West he did not watch TV and was promptly fired on the spot and told to ‘get the hell out’ of the home.
Saxon claimed to the court that West only paid him for one week of work. He is suing West for a number of labor code violations, and more than $1 million in unpaid wages, and damages.
In the lawsuit, Saxon said the rapper’s vision for the home was to make it like ‘a bomb shelter from the 1910s’, according to NBC News.
‘We were going to be gutting all of that out and sort of building him a Bat Cave,’ Saxon said, adding the rapper told him he wanted a place he could ‘hide from the Clintons in and the Kardashians in’.
While Saxon believed the home was more of an ‘art project,’ he later came to realize West actually wanted to reside there.
West ‘wanted no electricity,’ Saxon said. ‘He only wanted plants. He only wanted candles. He only wanted battery lights. And he just wanted to have everything open and dark.’
West denied all of the accusations in a November 2023 filing requesting that the lawsuit be dismissed.
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