1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: If you're listening to the Jonesy and Demander podcast. We 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: haven't heard much from Kanye West lately, have we. No, 3 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: he's got to be quiet on the whole mental side 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: of things. Well for a while there, probably when he 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: was married to Kim Kardashin, and not long after. He 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: was famous for his designs, his shoe designs, his clothing designs, 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: his architectural designs, his music. My son in particular loves 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: his music, which I'm neither here nor there about. He's 9 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: no Glen Campbell. Let's put it that way, Brendan. He 10 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: is no Glen camp No, no one would say they 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: were the same person. But this isn't in intriguing story. 12 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: It's ended up in court. He bought house not long 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: after he and Kim Kardashin broke up. The house was 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: a specially architecturally designed home that he bought for the 15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: equivalent for Australian dollars eighty million dollars back then, Yeah, 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: back then. He bought an eighty million dollar home in 17 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: Malibu in September twenty twenty one, so this is just 18 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: months after he split with his former wife. He then 19 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: hired someone to do his own form of renovations, and 20 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: who would you hire to do that, Someone who you 21 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: think would be cutting edge in this field, someone whose 22 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: work you've always admired and designed as a desired as 23 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: an architect or a designer. He hired Tony Saxon, a 24 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 1: rare record dealer and an unlicensed contractor. He hired him 25 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: to gut the property. So within months, the luxury residence 26 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: was reduced to a concrete shell. As per Kargne's demands, windows, plumbing, 27 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: which I'll get to in a minute, electricity were all removed. 28 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: He wanted some full off grid kind of experience. It 29 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: was suggested by some that by some of his critics 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: that he gutted this house as a jab to his 31 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: ex wife. This move spiked outrage amongst architectural fans, who 32 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: slammed the wrapper four well, destroying the property. So this 33 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: is where the lawsuit happens. Mister Saxon, the aforementioned rare 34 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: record dealer and non licensed contractor, said that he's wanting money, 35 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: He's a million dollars out of pocket. But also he 36 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: said he sustained a broken neck while working on the site. 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: So this house Kane West eventually put this gutted home 38 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: on the market for fifty three million dollars, right, it's 39 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: taking a bit of a bit of a haircut there. Well, 40 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: then he failed to find a buyer at that price. 41 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: He ultimately accepted a twenty one million dollar it's even 42 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: more of a haircut from a developer. And it's unclear 43 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: what state the property currently in is in. But let's 44 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: get to what he's actually done to this house. He 45 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: bought this architecturally designed, beautiful home. Got a picture here. 46 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: It looks like it's it looks like something straight out 47 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: of Bay Route. It looks like it's something that's been bombed. 48 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: So this is what this mister Saxon has said, is 49 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: that he wanted nothing is quote that he gave to 50 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. He wanted no toilets, so that if someone 51 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: wanted to go number two, it was a hole in 52 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: the ground. He wanted the house to be a modernist bunker. 53 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: So if you went around a Kanne West house doesn't 54 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: have any electricity, doesn't have any plumbing, and if he 55 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: wanted to go and do a poop, you'd have to 56 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: this multi million dollar rapper in this multi million dollar house, 57 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: you had to go in a hole in the ground. 58 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: Explains this song Poopy Do scoop scoop di dee whoopoop. 59 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: If only had written songs about plumbing, we'd all be 60 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: better off. He likes stripping things back. He's houses, he's missus, 61 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: all of it, all of it.