Two Saudi royals are holding up the sale of a Beverly Hills mansion, arguing about stained carpets and residential repairs

Princess Fahdah Husain Abdulrahman Al-Athel and her ex-husband, Prince Faisal Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, nonetheless personal a 2.3-acre property collectively inside a gated Beverly Hills neighborhood, regardless of splitting a number of years in the past.

They plan to promote it, however a lawyer for the princess says that Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is stalling on making repairs on the property, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, and refusing to pay for it. 

She’s now asking a Delaware decide to order the prince to signal a contract to get the work accomplished. It’s unclear how a lot the repairs will price.

The prince’s lawyer informed Bloomberg that if the court docket decides in his ex-wife’s favor, he “will oppose the movement,” arguing that he’s involved the contractor will go over finances.

The couple acquired married in 2001 and purchased the property as a getaway dwelling in 2011 for $16.8 million by way of a Delaware-based firm. It has two separate mansions with a mixed complete of 18 bedrooms and 28 bogs. The couple divorced in 2016.

One mansion is reportedly in a state of disrepair to the purpose that the house owners have been fined and threatened with foreclosures by the owners affiliation on the gated neighborhood, one of many princess’s attorneys informed the Related Press in 2020.

The pair had reached a settlement in February over who ought to pay for the renovations, the small print of which have been saved confidential. However now, the princess’s legal professionals are arguing that the prince isn’t appearing on the long-pending repairs, rising the monetary pressure on the princess. 

“The landscaping is usually lifeless, the pool is empty, and the water strains emptied,” legal professionals for the princess wrote in court docket filings, Bloomberg reported. “A lot of the carpeting all through the property was stained, broken, or typically unusable.”

The prince claimed that his ex-wife didn’t keep the property or pay taxes on it within the court docket filings. He had additionally requested {that a} $41 million mortgage undertaken for the renovations be returned to him, Bloomberg reported in February.