An NBA star is reportedly trying to reverse his recent purchase of a home for which he paid over $6 million.
Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and his girlfriend were reported to have moved into the Toronto home in May, but after a person visited the home looking for its previous owner, the couple left and have not returned.
Gilgeous-Alexander bought the home from Aiden Pleterski, a self-proclaimed “crypto king” who filed for bankruptcy last year.
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Court documents reportedly say Pleterski owed nearly $27 million Canadian to more than 150 investment clients and was even kidnapped and beaten last December.
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Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) reacts after a basket during the first half against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena. (Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports)
Angry visitors often came to the house looking for Pleterski until security arrived on site. The incidents led to another resident moving away. Pleterski has agreed to rent the home from Ray Gupta, owner of Toronto real estate holding company Sunray Group.
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Gilgeous-Alexander is said to have known neither about Pleterski nor what was happening in the house. So when someone came to the house looking for Pleterski and camped near the house just two days after he and his girlfriend Hailey Summers moved in, they left and never came back.
When the person entered the home, Summers apparently called a non-emergency phone number and learned that there had been “multiple reports of threats to the property, including the threat of burning the home down.”
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander catches his breath after hitting a basket against the Denver Nuggets during the second half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, in Denver. The Thunder won 119-107. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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The NBA player’s lawsuit says the home’s sellers never disclosed the potential security threat.
“The defendants knew that no reasonable person viewing properties of this type, quality and price would purchase them if the history of threatening visits to the property and the ongoing risk involved were disclosed,” the lawsuit says, according to CBC .
Gupta did not deny this.
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“Any buyer who could afford to spend more [8 million Canadian dollars] Anyone who lives in a luxury property values privacy and definitely does not want to have a part of the property where there have been threatening visits from the last two residents in the past.
Gilgeous-Alexander is a Toronto native who represented Canada at the FIBA World Cup this summer. He was the 11th pick of the 2018 NBA Draft and scored a career-high 31.4 points per game last year.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, #2 of Canada, controls the ball against Mikal Bridges #5 of the United States in the second quarter during the third place game of the FIBA Basketball World Cup at the Mall of Asia Arena on September 10 2023 in Manila, Philippines. (Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
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The home has six bedrooms and is 10,000 square feet on Lake Ontario.
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