Landlord wins judgment against Clippers’ James Harden in long running fraud case

LOS ANGELES — A jury has ordered James Harden to pay nearly $1 million in punitive damages and share in the payment of another $450,000 in compensatory damages in a contract dispute lawsuit related to a Beverly Hills mansion the Los Angeles Clippers guard leased in 2019.
Plaintiff George Santopietro’s long-running Los Angeles Superior Court complaint alleged that Harden paid $82,200 to stay for a week at the home contingent on him not having more than seven guests. But Harden had mul