A jury has found Kanye West, the musician now known as Ye, liable for claims that he was seriously injured and wrongfully fired during the gutting of his $57 million Malibu mansion in 2021. The plaintiff, Tony Saxon, had asked for $1.7 million in compensatory damages, but was only awarded $140,000 with no additional punitive damages. Saxon alleged that Ye hired him as a project manager and around-the-clock security guard at the house designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando. He testified that he severely injured his neck and back while working at the property and was later fired after seeking workplace accommodations and refusing to run fuel-powered generators indoors. In closing arguments, Saxon's lawyer, Ron Zambrano, argued that under California law, he had been hired as a full-time employee, not an independent contractor.