The Broadway and Cinema star Leslie Odom Jr. faces the legal pressure of her father, Leslie Odom Mr., in an apparent family dispute that has spread to the courts.
The father of the winner of the Tony Award accused his son of non -compliance with the contract and financial abuse of the elderly, among other accusations, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the Superior Court of the Los Angeles County. The complaint arises from the alleged breach by the actor of the promises to buy a house from his father, according to legal documents reviewed by The Times.
Leslie Odom Mr., who is described in demand as a retiree who lives in Los Angeles and South Carolina, also demanded the star of “Hamilton” and “One Night in Miami …”, 43, for causing intentionally emotional anguish. Among other positions. The artist “failed to comply with his commitments and had a behavior designed to intimidate and damage emotionally.” [his father]causing financial and serious emotional anguish losses, ”says demand.
The accusations “are devastating and without foundation,” said Leslie Odom Jr. on Friday afternoon in a statement to Times.
“I have given years of broad financial support to my father,” he added. “I have no choice but to defend the courts. I am sure that the truth will prevail. ”
The legal lawsuit details several supposed cases in which Leslie Odom Jr., whose career reached new heights after her award-winning performance in the original “Hamilton” cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda, offered to buy a house from his father. Leslie Odom Mr. had lived with his wife in a home in Philadelphia since 1993. According to the demand, the Broadway star allegedly told his father in November 2018 that he wanted to buy a house in “a better part” of Pennsylvania as a way of paying him “for being a great father.”
The actor bought a house in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, and supposedly gave his father's keys and “told him that the house was all his.” Under this impression, says the demand, Leslie Odom Mr. sold his former house in Philadelphia in April 2019 with the intention of living in Wyncote's property until his retirement. In his demand, he affirms that his son “never transferred the property of Wyncote” to his name as he supposedly promised.
The lawsuit also says that in March 2019, the young Odom asked his father to “make his bags once again” and move to Los Angeles to help take care of the grandchildren. According to the lawsuit, Leslie Odom Mr. agreed and his son supposedly promised to buy a house in Los Angeles from his father. That same month, the artist of “When a Crooner Dies” sold Wyncote's house and did not give his father any part of the property. It proceeds, says the demand.
The demand says that while he was in Los Angeles to take care of his grandchildren, Leslie Odom Mr. lived in a house that his son had rented, despite the alleged “guarantees” of the latter that he would buy a house from his father. The rental situation was “very problematic for senior because she wanted stability and financial security in her retirement age,” says the demand. Every year, while living in Los Angeles, Leslie Odom Mr. asked his son about the purchase of a house that was in his name, but the actor supposedly “continued deviating the question.”
The demand says that after almost three years, Odom's father again raised the question and his son supposedly “caused an attack” and said he would transfer his parents “to any place to which they would like to go and that he would pay for it” . Odom's father chose South Carolina and was “relocated” in June 2024. Once again, his son supposedly “could not buy a house there as he had promised,” says the demand.
The complaint says that Leslie Odom Mr. “continued requesting” that his son fulfilled his promise with respect to the house of South Carolina, but that the actor of “Central Park” “was further enraged” and subsequently “became involved in a Series of intimidation tactics to exercise your muscles. ” “Father Odom's demand accuses his son of directing his” people “and using” high power lawyers “to write letters threatening to take legal actions and instructing him to stay away from his son. The demand also accuses his son to hack your online accounts and cut communication with your grandchildren.
Leslie Odom Mr. alleges in his demand that the conflict with his son also tensed the relationship with his wife. “Junior's behavior has caused Senior financial and emotional damage, leaving him vulnerable during his retirement,” says the complaint.
He sued his son for general damage greater than 2.5 million dollars, special damage greater than $ 750,000, legal fees, punitive damage and other additional measures. A jury trial was requested.
