Mohamed Hadid ordered to pay neighbors $2.6 million for mega-mansion

Gigi and Bella’s father Hadid Mohamed not only lost this real estate battle, but now he’s ordered to pay legal fees.

A judge has charged the 74-year-old dad of supermodel sisters to help his nemesis next door with legal fees after a five-year case over a demolished mega-mansion by a real estate developer.

Mohamed Hadid has spent the better part of the last five years losing a legal battle over his vast Bel Air estate, a complex so sprawling that he has earned the nickname Starship Enterprise, according to the Daily Mail.

Problems with Hadid’s dream home began in 2015, when the city of Los Angeles filed criminal charges against him for failing to comply with a cease-and-desist order issued on the building, which had by then grown to about 30,000 square feet – double the size allowed for the home. . plot.

When the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star still didn’t shrink or demolish his dwelling in 2018 as L.A. ordered, those living under the hippopotamus at the top of the hill filed a civil lawsuit.

After numerous appeals, litigation and one trial, Hadid’s neighbors prevailed: last year, the starship Enterprise faced disaster.

All that remains of Leviathan today is the huge slab of its base.

And now, to add insult to injury, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan has ordered Hadid to pay $2.6 million in his opponents’ legal fees.

“I feel justified,” Joe Horachek, 81, who led the civil suit against Hadid, told the Daily Mail of the decision. “Now I just want Hadid to pay and leave.”

Hadid, unsurprisingly, feels very different.

“This is a joke – this is crazy,” he told the publication. Now he is threatening to counter-sue for “two or three hundred million dollars.”

Indeed, it was only in January of this year that Hadid filed a pending third appeal against his neighbors.

Horacek is unlikely to be intimidated by the lack of cooperation and expects that he will need additional legal assistance if he ever sees any payment ordered by the judge.

“We haven’t seen a dime from Hadid. If we want to get the money, we will have to hire people to deal with his assets,” Horasek said.

However, he is happy to be rid of Hadid’s giant villa.

“We are so happy that we can look outside and not see this monster – and we don’t have to worry about it falling on us from above,” he said.