A$AP Rocky is going through a $1.1 million lawsuit after a contractor engaged on his $11 million New York City rental allegedly induced a “catastrophic” flood that left his downstairs neighbor’s residence “completely uninhabitable.”

The lawsuit blames the December 23, 2024, incident on “negligence of the putative owner of Unit 5N, Rakim Athelaston Mayers (a/k/a A$AP Rocky),” and native contractor ADE Pro Painting, in keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by The Independent.

The Hip-Hop star’s luxurious, full-floor residence encompasses a personal elevator, and the 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath loft boasts oak flooring and customized ceiling beams.

Unit 4NF, which bought in 2021 for $6.5 million, “suffered damage and destruction” to its “fixtures, furnishings and improvements,” in addition to to “furniture, clothing, and personal items,” of no less than $700,000, the swimsuit contends.

The residence’s residents have spent some $200,000 on alternate residing preparations for the reason that incident.

The unit’s ceilings, partitions, flooring and electrical circuitry needed to be “torn apart and replaced,” and the house “remains uninhabitable,” in keeping with the swimsuit.

“I want to say that I signed an NDA with the rapper, so that prevents me from providing certain details,” the proprietor of ADE Pro Painting advised The Independent in an e mail. “I want to say that we are also affected from this situation, and we did not get pay [sic] for certain services provided.”

The flood might be traced again to the night of December 23, 2024, when “a number of scorching water pipes in and round Unit 5N… burst,] inflicting a deluge of water to cascade from Unit 5N into and round Unit 4NF under, the criticism states.

A 3rd-party contractor found that essential radiator provide valves had been left closed and that no return valves had been put in, the criticism continues.

Kang and Chez Ni LLC are actually looking for a minimal of $900,000, an extra $200,000 from the rental board, and $42,000 for remediation.

The rapper was beforehand sued by a former landlord in 2016 for allegedly turning a Lower Manhattan residence’s “custom made walk-in wardrobe” right into a recording sales space and leaving the unit “in a generally filthy state with dirt, huge piles of debris, and garbage throughout” the residence.

Earlier this 12 months, a Los Angeles jury acquitted Rocky on felony assault fees after allegedly taking pictures at A$AP Relli throughout a 2021 dispute.

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