Brad Pitt’s Make It Right NOLA foundation is being sued by dozens of homeowners. Many of the homes built by MIR were and are defective, from bad construction, to shoddy materials, to water damage and more. All of the people who lived in MIR homes had to purchase them, often at a discount, but through loans and FEMA grants and such. They had to spend their own money on these “charity” homes. And so when their homes became unliveable, they went to MIR for help. MIR barely helped at all. So the homeowners filed a class action lawsuit against Brad and Make It Right. Only now Brad Pitt wants the judge to say that he (Pitt) had nothing to do with MIR. “Make It Right? I don’t know her.”

Brad Pitt is defending himself against accusations he only helped out New Orleans residents following Hurricane Katrina for good press, denying the claim and demanding a judge let him out of the class action lawsuit filed by Katrina victims. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Pitt is seeking to be dismissed once and for all from the class action lawsuit against the actor and his Make it Right Foundation accusing the charity of selling them “defectively and improperly constructed homes.”

Pitt claims the lawsuit “does not otherwise contain a single factual allegation that Mr. Pitt made any promise to any putative class member, that he entered any contract with any putative class member, or that he made any misrepresentation to any putative class member. ” The actor is responding to a recent motion by the victims who claimed that “Mr. Pitt gladly accepted responsibility for his personal participation when the publicity was favorable … [He] received incalculable marketing and publicity benefits from his involvement with the Foundation and the Lower Ninth Ward… But when it surfaced that these homeowners, who are burned with 30-year mortgages on homes that may not last another five years, defendant seeks to be dismissed from legal scrutiny by conveniently ignoring his personal participation and plaintiffs’ allegations of fraud.”

The plaintiffs claim Pitt “personally participated in the tortious and fraudulent acts and omissions alleged in Plaintiffs’ Petition. He promised he would build quality, sustainable, green, safe and healthy homes designed to withstand hurricane force winds, promises upon which the homeowners detrimentally relied.”

In his newly filed court docs, Pitt says, “While plaintiffs attempt to allege a myriad of purported wrongful conduct, they do not supply any specific facts indicating that Mr. Pitt was personally involved in any of them.” Pitt argues, “While plaintiffs urge in the Opposition that certain generic and innocuous statements Mr. Pitt allegedly made to the press somehow give rise to claims against him individually, this is simply unsupportable.”

[From The Blast]

I can’t wait for the plaintiffs to offer up all of the proof that Brad was super-eager to take credit for MIR and all of the MIR work – he was on the cover of Architectural Digest, he did multiple TV interviews, he headlined fundraisers, and on and on. Make It Right was used as proof that Brad was just as charitable/serious as Angelina Jolie. And then he lost interest, and discarded those people like a child discards a toy they no longer want to play with. Is Brad’s argument really that he wasn’t super-involved in MIR and that he never made ANY promises about what MIR would do?

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