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Kanye West Drives Benz into a Lawsuit
Kanye West may have been too busy taking care of his Late Registration to realize he was missing car payments.
The Grammy-winning hip-hop star was sued Friday for allegedly not making thousands of dollars in lease payments on a 2003 Mercedes Benz G500 he obtained at a New Jersey dealership.
DaimerChrysler Financial Services, a private Delaware-based trust, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing West and his company KonMan Entertainment of reneging on the lease deal, which required the rapper's camp to pony up $1,295 a month for 39 months.
Court documents state that West, who was president of KonMan when the company added the $75,000 Mercedes to its fleet in 2002, was supposed to bring the car back Jan. 18 when the lease expired. However, the luxury SUV (the square-shaped model that looks as if it just drove in from a combat zone) has yet to be returned, per the suit.
The DCFS trust, which is claiming that West personally guaranteed that the payments would roll in on schedule, is asking for $53,747 in damages along with accrued payments, interest and late fees.
The 2002 lease was signed with Prestige Motors in Paramus, New Jersey, but since the car is currently parked in Sherman Oaks, California, out in the San Fernando Valley, according to the suit, the paperwork has been transferred to DCFS and the case will be heard in Los Angeles.
"The vehicle is in the control of [West and KonMan]...Before the commencement of this action, [DCFS] demanded each of them to return the vehicle," the lawsuit states. "Nevertheless, they refused to return said vehicle and still unjustly detain it. [DCFS] is entitled to immediate possession of the vehicle."
And no, the company won't settle for free publicity from having the Mercedes Benz brand featured in several of West's songs, including "Family Business," "Drive Slow" and "Gold Digger."
His 2003 G500 may be parked for good, but West, 28, has zero intention of letting that stop him from getting around. The multiplatinum-selling artist was in Miami over the weekend shooting Pharrell Williams' new video, "Number 1," on which West serves as a guest rapper.
Before heading east, West brought the L.A. house down Saturday at KISS-FM's Wango Tango concert and went to "Touch the Sky" in the desert at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Apr. 29.
The busy bee is also scheduled to head up Lollapalooza in August with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and headline the 36th annual Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival Labor Day weekend in Seattle alongside A Tribe Called Quest, AFI and Hawthorne Heights.
West's next album, Graduation is set for a December 2006 release and will possibly feature the song "Bittersweet," a collaborative effort with John Mayer.
The reported title for West's fourth album due out in 2007 or '08 is Good-Ass Job, or, as West told USA Today last year, "what you're supposed to get" after Graduation.
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