Buyer calls changes Kanye made to Malibu mansion 'stupid'

Kanye West's mansion — a Tadao Ando-designed masterpiece that the rapper gutted — has a new owner, and he's not a fan of what Ye did to the house.

Bo Belmont, CEO of California-based real estate crowdfunding firm Belwood Investments, has been announced as the new owner of West's gutted Malibu mansion, built in 2013 by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Ando for art collector and financier Richard Sachs.

“We are incredibly excited to acquire this property,” Belmont, who paid “less than $22 million” for the oceanfront home, said in a news release. “This is not just a phenomenal real estate investment; It is an opportunity to revitalize and preserve an architectural gem of the famous Tadao Ando, ​​ensuring it remains a jewel of Malibu.”

While Belmont has great respect for the 4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, five-bathroom property, he doesn't like the changes Ye made there after purchasing it for $57.25 million in 2021.

(The rapper initially listed the home for $53 million in January before dropping the price to $39 million in April.)

“My goal is to make it like Kanye was never there. “The house will be restored to the condition it was in,” Belmont, who was once charged with attempted murder for a pitchfork attack for which he ultimately served three years in prison, recently told the Los Angeles Times.

Of all the changes West has made, including the removal of the building's windows, doors, electrical and plumbing systems, the removal of the floor glazing is causing Belmont the most problems.

“That was a really stupid move. Really pointless,” he told the Times.

Fortunately, Belmont says, the residence's structure remained largely intact through the “mostly cosmetic” renovations West was able to undertake.

However, many of Ye's unrealized ideas for the building were much more than cosmetic and at one point included converting the stairs into a slide, the floors into trampolines and camouflaging the facade, the publication reported.