OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s $27 million mansion is a ‘lemon’ with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges

Sam Altman’s $27 cardinal San Francisco luxury abode is seemingly plagued with issues, ranging from a leaky infinity excavation to faulty piping that dumped earthy sewage connected the property. That’s according to a lawsuit that The San Francisco Standard linked to the OpenAI CEO’s residence, which claims Altman purchased a “lemon” with “pervasive shoddy workmanship and corner-cutting.”

The 9,500-square-foot property is situated connected San Francisco’s iconic Lombard St., wherever it overlooks the metropolis and the bay. As you tin spot successful this walkthrough of the home, immoderate of its cardinal features see a four-sided infinity excavation that hangs disconnected the borderline of the house, a “Batcave” starring into a garage, arsenic good arsenic a strategy that uses recycled rainwater to irrigate an expansive plot and flush toilets wrong the house.

But the $27 cardinal mansion mightiness not beryllium each it’s cracked up to be. In a suit filed past week successful a San Francisco court, Altman’s ineligible squad claims the existent property developer Troon Pacific “misrepresented the information of the Property arsenic of the highest quality” to merchantability it “as rapidly arsenic possible.” The plaintiff besides accuses the developer of failing to prosecute qualified contractors, immoderate of whom allegedly “retaliated” by “filling drainage and sewer pipes with contractor bags and debris” implicit claims they weren’t paid connected time.

That “shoddy” workmanship has led to the excavation leaking a “flood of water” into the home’s little level past August, causing “the gypsum ceiling successful that country to fail” and “the wide beingness of mold,” arsenic claimed successful the lawsuit. Altman’s ineligible squad estimates the outgo to repair the excavation would beryllium upwards of $4 million, and that’s not counting the “unconnected bath sewer enactment that dumped earthy sewage connected the ground,” “numerous leaking irrigation lines,” the “water intrusion astatine skylights,” among different issues.

Altman isn’t the lone idiosyncratic to person taken contented with Troon Pacific’s work. In May, the developer was ordered to wage $50 million backmost to investors who funded a location renovation task successful San Francisco that was ne'er finished, each portion the institution allegedly pocketed millions.

For now, Altman mightiness beryllium stuck dealing with immoderate inconveniences astir the location portion the suit runs its course. But possibly helium tin inquire ChatGPT for assistance fixing immoderate of its issues — oregon amended yet, springiness him suggestions connected however to find a caller place.