Sofia Vergara skipped out on paying a contractor greater than $1.7 million for an enormous renovation of her luxurious dwelling in Beverly Hills … or so the contractor claims in a brand new lawsuit.
According to the swimsuit, obtained by TMZ, the actress employed Reside Custom Homes in April 2022 to carry out development work on her $26 million mansion situated within the Beverly Park neighborhood.
RCH claims Vergara agreed to pay for the work plus the contractor’s charge, however claims she by no means adopted by as soon as the work was executed.
RCH says the venture was considerably accomplished by December 2022, however then Vergara allegedly requested for important further work past the scope of the settlement, which ended up extending the job till March 2023 … when Sofia lastly moved again into the house.
According to RCH, Vergara requested the contractor to put in clay plaster in 3 powder rooms, an workplace, the eating room partitions, the cabana rest room and the visitor home front room. She additionally needed the corporate to take away and exchange a flight of stairs.
RCH says it fronted the cash for the extra work with the intention to end the enhancements and claims Vergara promised to pay the invoice … even allegedly telling RCH she’d authorized one of many invoices for practically $900K and “already” gave instructions to her cash supervisor to pay the invoice.
But RCH says Sofia by no means adopted by and now owes the corporate a whopping stability of $1,700,492.64.
We’ve reached out to Vergara’s rep … up to now no phrase again.