Canadian NBA player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won what’s likely to be a precedent-setting lawsuit to undo his $8.4-million purchase of a Burlington, Ont., lakefront mansion where Ontario’s self-described Crypto King Aiden Pleterski used to live.
Last month, a CBC Toronto investigation was first to report on Gilgeous-Alexander’s lawsuit to void the sale. The suit alleged the sellers fraudulently misrepresented the luxury home by failing to disclose an alleged series of threatening visits to the property — happening daily, at times — by those looking for Pleterski before the NBA star bought it.
Pleterski, 25, had previously been leasing-to-own the mansion for about $45,000 a month — until his