Brother accused of giving Tony Hsieh drugs, alcohol before death

Court documents filed this period assertion Tony Hsieh’s member bought him drugs and “plied” him with intoxicant successful the months earlier his death.

The caller allegations came from Tony Lee, Hsieh’s longtime person and fiscal manager who sued Hsieh’s property successful April, seeking astir $7 cardinal from a breached contract.

Lee’s lawyers made the Oct. 11 tribunal filing successful effect to documents filed successful September, which claimed Hsieh spent his last years malnourished, hardly sleeping and hallucinating from ketamine and nitrous oxide use.

Those same allegations were made successful documents filed successful August successful an ongoing suit implicit declaration disputes betwixt Hsieh’s property and his erstwhile longtime person and assistant, Jennifer Pham.

Lee’s lawyers argued successful the Oct. 11 filing that the anterior allegations were “clearly filed astatine the absorption of Andrew Hsieh,” Tony Hsieh’s brother, and were meant to “seek to inject salacious allegations into the litigation.”

Lawyers for the Hsieh household person not addressed the allegations against Andrew Hsieh successful consequent tribunal filings, and they did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Friday.

Tony Hsieh died Nov. 27 astatine property 46 from injuries suffered successful a Connecticut location occurrence and did not permission a will. His father, Richard Hsieh, and Andrew Hsieh are overseeing the property of the erstwhile Zappos boss.

The Oct. 11 tribunal filing goes connected to allege that it was Andrew Hsieh — not Lee, Pham oregon Hsieh’s different friends — who “engaged successful overmuch of the despicable conduct” outlined successful the erstwhile filing.

“It was Andy that arranged for the acquisition of thousands of canisters of nitrous oxide astatine an alarming complaint for Tony Hsieh’s continued usage erstwhile others who cared for Mr. Hsieh refused to bash so,” tribunal documents state. “It was Andy that plied Tony Hsieh with intoxicant during Mr. Hsieh’s last months.”

The papers besides alleges that Andrew Hsieh tried to enrich himself financially from his brother’s holdings.

Previous tribunal filings successful lawsuits involving Lee and Pham claimed that, according to Tony Hsieh’s family, the tech mogul began utilizing ketamine successful November 2017 to regenerate the addictive quality of intoxicant and medicine drugs. He was antecedently prescribed Xanax, Adderall and Ambien.

In 2020, Tony Hsieh switched from ketamine to nitrous oxide, according to tribunal documents.

Tony Hsieh’s household has claimed that Lee, Pham and Pham’s boyfriend, Roberto Grande, knew Tony Hsieh was unwell but continued to usage him for their ain fiscal gain, including investments successful Park City, Utah.

“Those astir him were spending wealth astatine an alarming complaint without immoderate meaningful show metrics oregon research,” California attorneys Vivian Thoreen, Anjuli Woods and Jonathan Park, and Las Vegas lawyer Dara Goldsmith wrote successful the September filing. “Simply put, Tony’s ‘friends’ were not competent to negociate these investments and were spending Tony’s wealth for the intent of skimming arsenic overmuch arsenic they could disconnected the top.”

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