https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/nba-star-lawsuit-void-purchase-mansion-ontario-crypto-king-1.7015253
> A couple of days after Canadian professional basketball player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander moved into his $8.4 million lakefront mansion this spring, he allegedly received a threatening visit from a stranger demanding the whereabouts of Ontario’s self-proclaimed Crypto King: Aiden Pleterski.
> Pleterski, 24, had previously been leasing to own the Burlington, Ont., property for about $45,000 a month — until his cryptocurrency and foreign exchange investment operation unravelled last year as investors came looking for the more than $40 million they’d given him.
> Gilgeous-Alexander claims he’d never heard of Pleterski before the man showed up at his door.
> It wasn’t until Gilgeous-Alexander’s girlfriend called the police and discovered there had been several previous reports of threats at the home — including a threat to burn it down — that they started to learn about Pleterski’s history with the property, according to court records.
> The couple moved out immediately — and within a month, Gilgeous-Alexander’s lawyers filed a lawsuit to try to void the sale. They claim the sellers fraudulently misrepresented the luxury home by failing to disclose an alleged series of threatening visits to the property — happening daily, at times — by those looking for Pleterski before Gilgeous-Alexander bought it.
> “The defendants knew that if the history of threatening visits to the property, and ongoing risk of same, was disclosed, then no reasonable person looking at properties of that type, quality, and price would purchase it,” reads the statement of claim.
by youguanbumen
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Nobody buys a 9 million dollar home without planning to live there. He is gone.
Just sell the house to Ja. He’ll be all about it.
yeah fuck that, I ain’t living in a home that some crazy investors are threatening to burn down.
The Ontario real estate industry is just filled with pieces of shit.
That’s a hell of a headline…
Sounds like he owes some money
> It wasn’t until Gilgeous-Alexander’s girlfriend called the police and discovered there had been several previous reports of threats at the home — including a threat to burn it down
Yup fuck that
whoever sold him that home definitely operated without ethics and I hope shai wins on that alone.
reminds of a story about a house that happened to be where ~~whoever sets IP addresses set the IP address for just “USA.”~~ MaxMind set the default geographic location for IP addresses they could only say were associated with the United States.
this pleterski guy got kidnapped and tortured for 3 days. lucky he didn’t end up at the bottom of a lake. don’t fuck with crypto weirdos
>Ontario’s self-proclaimed Crypto King
wut
What in the fuck did I just read
Kind of funny how OKC is so much of a shithole that SGA decides to buy a home in Canada instead.
cant blame the guy, i wouldnt wanna be associated with that
Crazy his realtor fleeced him
Let me tell y’all about the real estate industry here in the Greater Toronto Area. Everybody’s a scumbag. Legitimately everyone.
R/nba lawyers, does SGA have a winnable case here?
No word from the Sausage King of Chicago yet.
buyer beware?
Lmao I thought they were calling sga the crypto king
In Toronto you can typically reverse the sale of the home within a year for reasons, so assume this will be quick
Dude pays more monthly for his house than I make in a year. Depressing.
I heard the real estate agent said no takesies backsies so I think SGA is legally screwed.
Shai is very smart
This is pretty much how the Manson murders played out for Sharon Tate, maybe SGA just saw Once upon a time in Hollywood and made the right call
At least he still has his Skims deal
Disclosures are definitely a thing when selling a home. If they didn’t close this stuff, Shai’s winning for sure
sell the house to Glock 40 Moran… I mean Ja!
there’s nothing he’s scared of !
This Pleterski guy doesn’t actually look too hard to track down. Bro is posting his whole life on his Instagram stories and sharing his locations
If someone calls themselves the Crypto King, it is definitely a scammer. The bald guy who scammed with pokemon cards also calls himself Crypto King. lol
Hey good on shai for handling it like a grown up and not like ja would of
Aiden Pleterski faked his own kidnapping and he owns like $300,000 in CSGO skins lmao. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HDKC4zpAclw