Monday, March 18, 2024

Construction Company Demands Court Foreclose On Akon’s Mansion

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*Akon has reportedly been hit with a new lawsuit accusing him of owing over $127k to a home construction company, and refusing to pay the bill for years.

theJasmineBRAND.com exclusively reports that now, the company is demanding the court foreclose on the music mogul’s Georgia mansion and use the profits of the sale to pay back his years long debt.

Southern Electric Co. filed suit against the 43-year-old businessman, explaining that back in 2013, they provided $95k in materials and labor to Akon’s Milton, Georgia mansion – which he has been remodeling for years. The company claims Akon’s mother was the one who approved the construction, but they later sued her and eventually won a judgement in arbitration over the unpaid bills.

READ RELATED STORY: Akon’s Atlanta Mansion Hits Market for $2.5M

Currently, they are owed the $95k along with pre-judgment interest of $32,775 which continues to grow at $495 a month until it’s paid off by the singer. They are demanding the home be foreclosed on and the profits from the sale be used to pay off the $127,775 debt owed to them.

It’s the least legal drama pertaining the home. Last year, yet another contractor filed suit over unpaid bills for work done on the floors of the superstar producer’s mansion. TMZ reported that a company called Capital Floors filed a $15,000 lien against the troublesome home. The suit follows the $36,765 filed by a different company back last January.

In related news, Akon recently spoke to HipHopDX about his ongoing initiative to bring power to millions of Africans. Below are excerpts from the interview:

HipHopDX: How exactly are you guys bringing power? Did you have to get an electrician license or sanction by the government how was this going about? Did you have to outsource contractors?

Akon: Yeah, so, the way our project works is that we’re all working with the government because we want to do it on a scale basis. The whole concept of it is to be electrifying all the rural areas as far as out to where the grid doesn’t reach. And of course in Africa, sun is limitless — that’s our biggest resource. So there’s is no way that you not use that sun to bring energy. So solar became the main focus of how we would able to bring energy into those areas. So we created a PPP (Public Private Partnership) with the government where you can bring private investors in, the government subsidize and the people also have an access to be able to come in and invest. So it actually works out to where everybody is held accountable, people are helping the process where investors are able to get their money back. Our team is seeing over the whole process.

HipHopDX: Now Africa is renowned as a continent that hosts a lot of other third world countries, but it’s also the birthplace of some of the most intelligent people on Earth — you’re obviously a living example. Where’s the disconnect in that?

Akon: The disconnection in that is simple and plain; it’s just education. I think more about Africa needs to be pretty much put out there; people need to educate themselves more about Africa. I don’t think it’s up to the school systems to perse do it. It’s up to the person to want to know the history, to understand their origin, and things of that nature. And I think we get to the point where some things just don’t really matter until you understand the base and the root where it came from. And then you start to better understand the challenges that you’re facing, the situations that we may go through, your advancement in certain qualities, certain auras and patterns. All this comes from your history. I think the more you get to understand yourself, the origin in which you came from, you get a better understanding how even your future should be displayed.

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