Hsieh amassed vast wealth selling his startup LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265million in 1998, and shoe company Zappos to Amazon in a $1.2billion deal. The eccentric entrepreneur's vast wealth was looted through bizarre and 'manipulative' contracts written on sticky notes, cooked up by 'so-called friends' who let him spiral into drug abuse and severe mental illness, according to a counterclaim by his father and brother against his personal assistant, Jennifer 'Mimi' Pham, who sued his estate for $93million in February. Late billionaire Tony Hsieh was swindled out of millions of dollars by his assistant while he grew emaciated and delusional from his drug addiction, his family has claimed in legal filings. Pham denies the claims of exploitation and enabling Hsieh.
The suit comes months after Pham sued Hsieh's estate for $93million in February for 'anticipated profit' from a movie venture and a Utah hotel. But the commission was for 'virtually anything and everything imaginable, with no oversight whatsoever, according to the docs. Hsieh initially paid Pham a flat rate of $9,000 a month plus travel expenses, but last year her pay shot up to $30,000, plus a '10% commission'. They claim Pham, through her company, Baby Monster, concocted a series of outrageous contracts that would earn her and her boyfriend millions of dollars. In court papers obtained by, Hsieh's father and brother allege Pham preyed on his vulnerable, drug-addled state to 'exploit' him. Hsieh, 46, died from smoke inhalation last November after barricading himself in a pool shed in Connecticut and starting a fire. The family of Tony Hsieh has claimed the late Zappos CEO was swindled out of millions of dollars in his final weeks by his assistant Mimi Pham. EXCLUSIVE: Emaciated and 'drug-addled' Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, 46, was 'swindled out of millions of dollars by his right-hand person' before locking himself in shed surrounded by whippits and starting fatal fire, lawsuit claims
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