The rapper known as The Game has now officially had his Calabasas mansion taken away from him after a Los Angeles County judge decided to put the property on the market to pay off a $7.13 million debt he owes to Priscilla Rainey.
It's been a long, strange trip since Rainey originally sued the rapper back in 2015 for an alleged sexual assault that took place while shooting VH1's She's Got Game. Game made no appearance in court to defend himself against the accusations. In 2016, a jury delivered a sizable default judgment: $1.13 million in compensatory damages and another $6 million in punitive damages punishment not only for the possible assault but also for what the court saw as his total contempt for the judicial system.
A decade later, Rainey is still on the warpath to get what she's owed. She has clarified that she's not easing off from garnishing royalties to going after him for his businesses and intellectual property. It looks like she's landed her biggest legal win yet: The rapper's home in Calabasas, Calif., which Zillow estimates is worth about $4 million, is going to the auction block.
The Game contended that the home was covered by California's homestead exemption, asserting that the property belonged to JTT Holdings LLC instead of him personally. But Rainey's legal team wasn't biting. They persuasively argued that the LLC was a sham Game and his longtime manager, Wack100, created to insulate the asset from his creditors.
With Game's equity stakes in the LLC, that may be the case, but the court made it clear: No matter how you spin it, he doesn't own the property outright, which will not prevent the sale. The court sided with Rainey, and a long-running battle over the home was finally put to rest.
But even with the mansion now on the market for north of $4 million, there is still a steep mountain of debt to be scaled. Even if the home sells for its estimated value, Game would still owe Rainey nearly $3 million to cover the full judgment.
It is a sobering chapter in the saga that has followed Game ever since, for nearly a decade, a far cry from the image of the glamorized lifestyle often painted in the spotlight's glare. For Priscilla Rainey, it's one more step toward justice and financial compensation. It's a brutal reminder for The Game that legal battles don't simply go away, and sometimes, neither do the ramifications.
The implication here is as loud as any song Game has ever recorded: paying no mind to court may have cost him more than just money, and sometimes it costs your house.
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