OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s House Sucks, Lawsuit Says

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s $27 cardinal luxury mansion successful the Russian Hill vicinity of San Francisco has a tube that’s dumping sewage connected the broadside of the house. That’s according to a suit filed connected July 12, 2024, and uncovered by The San Francisco Standard.

The suit alleges that seller Troon Pacific and its CEO Greg Malin sold the mansion astatine 950 Lombard St. portion knowing it had a clump of problems. “In oregon astir March of 2020, OWNER—without immoderate anterior cognition of the rancor, mediocre supervision, shoddy workmanship, corner-cutting, and fiscal embezzlement that had characterized the improvement and operation of the Property—entered into negotiations to acquisition what it believed to beryllium a beautiful, luxury location successful San Francisco,” the suit says.

As elaborate by  The San Francisco Standard, the proprietor successful the suit is astir apt Altman. The plaintiff successful the suit is listed arsenic 950 Lombard LLC. Altman is the existent nonmigratory astatine that address, which is besides the registered concern code of an concern steadfast owned by Altman and his brother.

The location connected Lombard was, astatine 1 time, the astir costly location successful San Francisco. It was truthful luxurious it earned itself a walkthrough video from Architectural Digest successful 2020. The video showed disconnected the home’s unthinkable infinity pool, stunning views of the city, and a store it likened to the “Batcave.”

But the 9,500 quadrate ft property seemingly wasn’t each it was cracked up to be. “DEVELOPER failed to timely wage subcontractors who retaliated against the Property done a run of sabotage, which included filling drainage and sewer pipes with contractors bags and debris,” the suit says. “It appears [the developer] saw the looming menace of capitalist lawsuits connected the skyline and rushed the projects to screen its mounting losses.”

According to the lawsuit, the infinity excavation leaks into the little level of the house. Figuring that out, allegedly, progressive a lengthy probe and a laboratory trial for chlorine. There’s h2o each implicit the property, including “an unconnected bath sewer enactment that dumped earthy sewage connected the crushed successful a hard to entree country astatine the broadside of the residence.”

The existent repair estimates are astir $4 cardinal and Lombard LLC is seeking unspecified damages and attorney’s fees successful its lawsuit. Troon and Malin are astir apt connected the hook for this. It has a past of shoddy enactment and losing monolithic lawsuits. In May, they paid retired $48.1 cardinal to investors aft a akin fiasco.