A handyman working on Kanye’s West’s $57 million mansion thought he was going to get axed after he mistakenly called West’s wife Kim Kardashian, “Bianca.”
Jeromy Holding, 53, took the stand during West’s trial surrounding his oceanfront property in a Downtown LA courtroom Monday where it was revealed that the Grammy singer was furious over the workers October 2021 actions.
The handyman was making up to a $1000 a day doing “whatever Kanye asked” at West’s doomed mansion when he found himself standing in front of the home as Kim Kardashian rolled up in a Lamborghini with her children.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian before their divorce. WireImage
Kim Kardashian PGP / BACKGRID
Tony Saxon (left) and attorney at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse during trial versus Kanye West. Frederick M. Brown for California Post
Thinking Kardashian was Bianca Censori, who was the architect for the project, Holding waved and said, “Hi”, he testified.
Kardashian, taken back, walked by swiftly and said, “I don’t know you.”
“I thought you were Bianca,” Holding responded.
Holding then testified he saw West and Kardashian arguing, they were in the middle of a divorce at the time. Then the reality icon angrily jumped into her Lambo and sped off with the kids. That’s when Holding thought he would be fired, he said.
West approached him infuriated, “She’s the most famous woman in the world and you call her by another woman’s name?”
Holding said he could explain but West just said “nahh” and kept me on.
Kanye West and Bianca Censori WWD via Getty Images
The handyman appeared in court Monday with a limp and had three fingers bandaged. He told the court he had cut off his pinky last week while doing some work and had to have it re-attached.
Also revealed in court, as Holding was questioned by the plaintiff’s attorney Roger Haag, was how often West changed his mind about the design of the home. “On a dime”, he said.
The concepts went from a “bomb shelter” to a “monastery” to a “recording studio” and finally a “playground,” he testified.
West’s doomed $57 million dollar mansion. CB / BACKGRID
The court case centers around plaintiff Tony Saxon and his work on the tumultuous remodeling of the beachfront Malibu mansion.
Saxon alleges unpaid wages, unsafe working conditions, and wrongful termination after he was hired to manage, secure, and live in the property during its renovation, according to court documents.
The rapper’s overhaul of the structure removed almost all of the original design.
West’s spokesman Milo Yiannopoulos told The Post: “The truth is that Tony worked as an independent contractor, unlicensed and unsafe, masquerading as a properly licensed worker.”
Saxon is seeking over $1 million from West. Both West and his wife Bianca Censori are expected to testify.