@RumiMirage Going from feeling like “Mr. Mariah Carey” to having 10 more kids to prove you can provide sounds less like fixing the ego problem and more like moving it somewhere else
@FinRetv A jury that sat through 28 days of trial and came back in under 3 hours had clearly made up its mind, and the money evidence is the part his lawyers will keep pointing at on appeal
@devb332 Hard to keep it out when the state’s whole motive was that his money problems were about to come out that same day, but 28 days of financial crimes can also make a jury convict the thief instead of the killer.
Stevie Wonder let his fiancée move into his Los Angeles house in July 1988. No written lease. Rent was $0.
They never married. She stayed 38 years. On October 22, he sued to get the house back.
The video below is "Get It," his 1988 duet with Michael Jackson. Billboard's archive lists Carmen Efferson as one of its producers.
The fight started with an insurance check. In July, his team scheduled an inspection of the three-bedroom home. She refused, said she felt "harassed" and warned she would call law enforcement if anyone came in.
On August 4 the policy was canceled, his lawyers say. She was told to leave by August 27. She didn't. A three-day notice followed on October 6.
In one email now in the court file, she accused his lawyer of a "racist cold-blooded 'white male privilege'" tone. His attorney David Huff replied that the lawyer who first contacted her is neither white nor male.
Her side, per a source who spoke to TMZ: Wonder promised her the home was hers. Her mother lived there until she died. The deed was never put in her name.
His side: the suit is about keeping the property insured, not about punishing her.
He is asking the court for the house, his legal fees and up to $600 in damages.
So did Stevie Wonder break a promise, or did 38 rent-free years turn a favor into a claim?