Chris Pine is suing Eckstrom’s Carlos Saavedra to recoup $100,000 in fees he paid for a short-term rental that fell through.
Celebrity renters, they’re just like us. Chris Pine wants his security deposit and first month’s rent back on a rental that didn’t work out, though the rental in question cost nearly $70,000 a month. According to a lawsuit filed in Kings County Supreme Court on Monday, Pine is suing a townhouse developer for allegedly refusing to refund $100,000 in fees from a deal that fell through.
According to the suit, which was first reported by The Real Deal, Pine had been in negotiations with Eckstrom NYC’s Carlos Saavedra to rent 487 Henry Street, a sleekly renovated five-bedroom, four-plus-bath townhouse in Cobble Hill, for just shy of two months. (He’s apparently in town to film a rom-com with Emma Stone called The Catch.) During that process, Pine says he paid $50,000 for the first month’s rent, plus another $50,000 for a security deposit. Pine, a known dog guy, also alleged he paid an additional “pet deposit” of $25,000, though that amount has already been refunded, probably because security-deposit fees are capped at one month’s rent per the 2019 state housing laws.
