Utah company files $19M creditor’s claim against Tony Hsieh’s estate

A Utah constricted liability institution filed a $19 cardinal creditor’s assertion against Tony Hsieh’s property connected Monday regarding a movie workplace abstraction the Las Vegas tech mogul rented successful Park City, Utah, conscionable earlier his death.

Gary Crandall, whose lawyers filed the assertion successful Hsieh’s probate case, owns the company, Quinn Capital Partners, which operates Utah Film Studios in the affluent skis town.

In November 2020, the movie workplace ended its lease aboriginal with a Paramount accumulation institution known arsenic “Yellowstone” truthful that Hsieh’s constricted liability company, PC Studios, could determination into the space.

Hsieh’s and Crandall’s companies were negotiating presumption of a missive of recognition for the abstraction erstwhile Hsieh died astatine property 46 connected Nov. 27, 2020, from injuries helium suffered successful a Connecticut location fire.

He was unmarried and did not permission a will. Hsieh’s father, Richard, and member Andrew are overseeing his estate, and more than $150 cardinal successful creditor’s claims person been filed successful the probate case.

According to Mondays’ tribunal filing, Hsieh’s institution failed to wage rent oregon supply the missive of recognition aft the erstwhile Zappos CEO’s death. PC Studios besides hosted “several licensees successful the space” and collected rent earlier the institution voluntarily vacated the studio, Crandall’s lawyers claim.

Hsieh’s institution had agreed to lease the movie workplace for 5 years astatine $250,000 a month, successful summation to different charges.

The movie workplace is owed damages up to $19 million, “resulting from detrimentally relying connected Hsieh’s idiosyncratic representations” and PC Studios’ breach of the lease, Crandall’s lawyers, Michael Olsen and Thomas Grover, wrote successful the complaint.

In April, the movie workplace filed a suit against PC Studios successful Utah. According to the April suit, PC Studios owed the institution $1.75 million, including rent payments and fees Crandall’s institution paid to marketplace the workplace to different tenants.

The Utah suit besides requested a tribunal bid for Hsieh’s institution to supply a $6 cardinal missive of credit.

Crandall’s lawyers declined to remark connected Tuesday.

In erstwhile tribunal filings, Hsieh’s relatives person described his alarming behaviour successful the twelvemonth starring to his death, including cause usage and delusional thinking. The ineligible conflict implicit Hsieh’s property besides has featured allegations that radical adjacent to Hsieh took vantage of him financially arsenic his wellness spiraled downward.

Much of the ineligible conflict implicit Hsieh’s property involves Jennifer “Mimi” Pham, who, successful tribunal filings by her lawyers, was described arsenic Hsieh’s assistant, right-hand idiosyncratic and person for 17 years.

She besides has filed much than $130 cardinal successful creditor’s claims, the largest of which, astatine $75 million, is the “anticipated profit” from Hsieh’s task successful the documentary-movie streaming service Documentary+ that launched this past January.

Pham’s lawyers connected Nov. 21 filed notices of intent to service subpoenas seeking accusation on Hsieh’s dealings with radical successful Hollywood, including Joseph Gordon-Leavitt and David Arquette.

They’re seeking communications of documentation of Hsieh’s planned oregon executed concern successful Gordon-Leavitt’s institution HitRecord.org LLC, a “documentary task based connected Bozo the Clown,” and the 2 actors’ concerns for Hsieh’s “mental wellness oregon perceived cause addiction.”

The subpoenas besides are seeking documentation oregon “any fiscal oregon monetary benefit” regarding Arquette introducing Hsieh to the heads of a documentary-movie streaming service.

Also connected Monday, the California-based Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin Law Corporation filed a creditor’s assertion successful Hsieh’s probate lawsuit seeking $15,509.50, tribunal records show.

It is for services rendered to Hsieh earlier helium died. An itemized database of services included successful the assertion consists of telephone calls, emails and the reappraisal of documents related to Hsieh’s assorted projects passim November 2020.

The instrumentality steadfast did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Tuesday. Hsieh’s lawyers besides did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

Other creditor’s claims successful Hsieh’s probate lawsuit see a $40,000 claim for a customized “ceiling encephalon prototype;” an $8.7 cardinal claim from a Texas-based travel, fittingness and wellness institution for consulting work; and a transcript of Hsieh hiring idiosyncratic for $450,000 a twelvemonth nether a loosely defined occupation title including moving connected “random projects similar koi food oregon histrion houses.”

Contact Katelyn Newberg astatine knewberg@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0240. Follow @k_newberg connected Twitter.