OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s $27 million mansion is a ‘lemon’ with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges

Sam Altman’s $27 cardinal San Francisco luxury abode is apparently plagued pinch issues, ranging from a leaky infinity excavation to faulty piping that dumped earthy sewage connected nan property. That’s according to a lawsuit that The San Francisco Standard linked to nan OpenAI CEO’s residence, which claims Altman purchased a “lemon” pinch “pervasive shoddy workmanship and corner-cutting.”

The 9,500-square-foot property is situated connected San Francisco’s iconic Lombard Street, wherever it overlooks nan metropolis and nan bay. As you tin spot successful this walkthrough of nan home, immoderate of its cardinal features see a four-sided infinity excavation that hangs disconnected nan separator of nan house, a “Batcave” starring into a garage, arsenic good arsenic a strategy that uses recycled rainwater to irrigate an expansive plot and flush toilets wrong nan house.

But nan $27 cardinal mansion mightiness not beryllium each it’s cracked up to be. In a suit revenge past week successful a San Francisco court, Altman’s ineligible squad claims nan existent property developer Troon Pacific “misrepresented nan information of nan Property arsenic of nan highest quality” to waste it “as quickly arsenic possible.” The plaintiff besides accuses nan developer of failing to prosecute qualified contractors, immoderate of whom allegedly “retaliated” by “filling drainage and sewer pipes pinch contractor bags and debris” complete claims they weren’t paid connected time.

That “shoddy” workmanship has led to nan excavation leaking a “flood of water” into nan home’s little level past August, causing “the gypsum ceiling successful that area to fail” and “the wide beingness of mold,” arsenic claimed successful nan lawsuit. Altman’s ineligible squad estimates nan costs to repair nan excavation would beryllium upwards of $4 million, and that’s not counting nan “unconnected bath sewer statement that dumped earthy sewage connected nan ground,” “numerous leaking irrigation lines,” nan “water intrusion astatine skylights,” among different issues.

Altman isn’t nan only personification to person taken rumor pinch Troon Pacific’s work. In May, nan developer was ordered to salary $50 million backmost to investors who funded a location renewal task successful San Francisco that was ne'er finished, each while nan institution allegedly pocketed millions.

For now, Altman mightiness beryllium stuck dealing pinch immoderate inconveniences astir nan location while nan suit runs its course. But possibly he tin inquire ChatGPT for thief fixing immoderate of its issues — or, amended yet, springiness him suggestions connected really to find a caller place.