Tarek El Moussa Denies He’s Evicting North Hollywood Tenants To Build New Complex
HGTV Personality Tarek El Moussa Denies He's Evicting North Hollywood Tenants To Build New Complex: "My Intentions Are To Do Good" https://t.co/MR0nB3Xuku
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HGTV star Tarek El Moussa has been accused of trying to evict tenants in a rent-controlled property in North Hollywood to build a 138-unit apartment building.
Tenants Clare Letmon and her husband JonPaul Rodriguez went public with the complaints on social media, one of which shows a video of El Moussa bragging about the project being “the biggest flip I have ever done in my life” while trying to attract investors.
https://instagram.com/p/Cuh8TlkLjO_
El Moussa is now hitting back, claiming he has good intentions, that they've tried to facilitate meeting between the two parties, and that it's the current owner who is evicting the tenants, not him and his partners.
https://instagram.com/p/Cvh-Mwop9x0
There's a bit of an issue with that claim though. The current owner - Arthur Aslanian - tried to have the property burned down in order to move along the new project. He is currently in federal prison for a murder-for-hire plot and arson. The remaining five tenants who live in three of the units have since filed a civil suit against Aslanian.
“We want to stay in the area,” said Letmon, who’s pregnant with their first child. “This is a space that’s been here for 100 years for newcomers to Los Angeles who worked as artists, camera operators, production assistants, actors electricity like this. It would break our hearts to watch this get bulldozed.”
The other remaining tentants are said to be over 70 and/or disabled.
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This is so messed up.