{"id":803205,"date":"2026-07-15T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:30:25","slug":"kanye-wests-ex-employee-seeks-1-2m-in-attorneys-fees-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803205\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West’s Ex-Employee Seeks $1.2M in Attorney’s Fees in Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The jury already hit Kanye West<\/a> with a hefty tab … and now a former employee who won a civil case against the rapper earlier this year is now asking a judge to make Kanye cough up $1.2 million in attorney’s fees.<\/p>\n

According to new court docs, obtained by TMZ, Anthony Saxon Netelkos says his legal team is entitled to the massive payout after a jury awarded him $140,000 in damages after finding Ye liable under California’s Labor Code.<\/p>\n

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Saxon’s team says they logged more than 740 attorney hours over the nearly three-year fight, plus additional litigation staff time, and are asking the court to apply a 1.75 multiplier to the fee total because of what they describe as the case’s complexity and risk.<\/p>\n

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Back in March, a jury found Kanye failed to provide workers’ compensation insurance and awarded Saxon $140K.<\/p>\n

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In the new filing, Saxon’s attorneys argue the litigation stretched 35 months, involved five different defense lawyers, extensive discovery, multiple depositions, and a two-week jury trial … while costing their firm more than $300,000 out of pocket. They also say the case was handled on contingency — meaning they weren’t guaranteed a payday if they lost.<\/p>\n

The filing also takes aim at Kanye’s litigation tactics … claiming his side made a $100,000 settlement offer just before trial, then later demanded Saxon pay $200,000 and issue a public apology after proceedings had already begun. Saxon’s attorneys say they rejected both and pressed on to a trial, which they ended up winning.<\/p>\n

They also accuse Kanye’s camp of making the fight even tougher by filing a separate lawsuit against them before trial and attempting to use that dispute as leverage during settlement talks.<\/p>\n

Now it’ll be up to the judge to decide whether the rapper’s $140K trial loss turns into a legal tab in the seven figures.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury already hit Kanye West with a hefty tab … and now a former employee who won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[879,49,48,361,75,12891,44,12892],"class_list":["post-803205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}