Tony Hsieh’s family seeks return of $625K from his financial manager

Lawyers for Tony Hsieh’s household filed tribunal documents Monday demanding that Hsieh’s longtime person and fiscal manager instrumentality much than $625,000.

The documents were filed successful a suit Tony Lee brought against his friend’s property successful April, successful which Lee is seeking astir $7 cardinal from what the suit claimed was a breached contract. The suit alleged that Hsieh, the erstwhile enforcement of Zappos, agreed to wage him $1.5 cardinal a twelvemonth for 5 years for enactment related to Hsieh’s envisioned translation of Park City, Utah.

In documents filed successful September, attorney’s for Hsieh’s household wrote that Lee received $125,000 from Hsieh’s institution for enactment during August 2020. But the amended documents filed Monday bespeak that Lee received “compensation totaling $625,000,” positive an expenses reimbursement of $7,007.

Hsieh’s institution is “entitled to the tenable worth of these benefits; successful this case, the instrumentality of each monies paid out” to Lee, California attorneys Vivian Thoreen, Anjuli Woods and Jonathan Park, and Las Vegas lawyer Dara Goldsmith wrote successful Monday’s filing.

Lawyers for Hsieh’s household and Lee’s attorneys could not beryllium reached for remark connected Tuesday.

Tony Hsieh died Nov. 27 astatine property 46 from injuries suffered successful a Connecticut location occurrence and did not permission a will. His father, Richard, and his brother, Andrew, are overseeing the property of the erstwhile Zappos boss.

Earlier this month, Lee’s lawyers claimed Hsieh’s member bought him nitrous oxide and “plied” him with intoxicant successful the months earlier his death.

Lee’s lawyers made the Oct. 11 tribunal filing successful effect to documents filed successful September that claimed Hsieh spent his last years malnourished, hardly sleeping and hallucinating from ketamine and nitrous oxide use.

Those same allegations were made successful documents filed successful August successful an ongoing suit implicit declaration disputes betwixt Hsieh’s property and his erstwhile longtime person and assistant, Jennifer Pham.

Lee’s lawyers argued successful the Oct. 11 filing that the anterior allegations were “clearly filed astatine the absorption of Andrew Hsieh” and were meant to “seek to inject salacious allegations into the litigation.”

Lawyers for the Hsieh household person not addressed the allegations against Andrew Hsieh successful consequent tribunal filings.

Tony Hsieh’s household has claimed that Lee, Pham and Pham’s boyfriend, Roberto Grande, knew Tony Hsieh was unwell but continued to usage him for their ain fiscal summation successful the months starring to his death, including investments successful Park City, Utah.

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