LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A choose has ordered the property of late Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to pay his former lawyer a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} as a part of a contract signed months earlier than the entrepreneur’s dying.
Hsieh, who based after which offered the net shoe retailer, died in a home hearth in November 2020 in Connecticut. He was 46. Since then, a number of individuals have filed collectors’ claims and lawsuits in opposition to the property for fee. Earlier court docket filings estimated his wealth at almost $850 million. Hsieh died with no will.
Attorneys for Hsieh’s property have repeatedly written in court docket paperwork that Hsieh didn’t have the psychological capability to log off on contracts within the months and years main as much as his dying.
Courtroom paperwork filed by Hsieh’s household in 2021 indicated Hsieh used ketamine and nitrous oxide within the years earlier than his dying. Based on associates, Hsieh used “as many as 50 cartridges of nitrous oxide a day, often in public, or during ‘meetings’ with people,” paperwork mentioned. Courtroom paperwork additionally mentioned Hsieh’s bed room was “littered with hundreds of spent nitrous oxide cartridges.”
Because the 8 Information Now Investigators beforehand reported, all through 2020, attorneys for Hsieh’s property mentioned “continued [abuse of] hallucinogenic and dissociative substances, including nitrous oxide, which combined with his delusional thinking, fundamentally destroyed Tony’s ability to exercise reasonable diligence and judgment, and rendered him vulnerable to those seeking to take advantage of him.”
In 2023, a Clark County choose dominated in legal professional Puoy Premsrirut’s favor in her lawsuit over a $2.2 million price — a contract she signed with Hsieh in August 2020, paperwork mentioned. In 2024, attorneys for the property argued Premsrirut “committed malpractice because she represented an incapacitated party,” transcripts mentioned.
On March 28, Clark County District Courtroom Decide Susan Johnson granted Premsrirut’s partial abstract judgment, ordering the property to pay her $366,000 plus late charges. Johnson wrote in her order that arguments about “legal malpractice” failed.
Representatives for the Hsieh property beforehand mentioned in court docket that appeals had been doubtless.
