Elon Musk has made mass layoffs at Twitter since taking over
(Picture: PA Wire)Twitter is being sued in the High Court by the Crown Estate which is alleging the social media giant, now owned by Elon Musk, has not paid rent on its London headquarters.
Court lists showed the Crown Estate case against Twitter was filed at the High Court in London last week.
The alleged arrears relate to office space near Piccadilly Circus in central London, the BBC reported on Tuesday morning.
A Crown Estate spokesman said that court proceedings had been issued in the dispute over Twitter’s UK headquarters in the West End.
In a statement reported by Reuters, the Crown Estate, which owns some of the most expensive land in central London, said the action related to “rental arrears” on the social media platform’s office space in the British capital.
Twitter did not immediately respond for a request for comment.
The company laid off half its workforce after it was taken over by Elon Musk last October.
The job cuts, followed by a wave of resignations, has resulted in the departure of around 5,000 over the past three months. Twitter now employs around 2,300 people, according to Musk, down from 7,400 at the end of October.
In London, the office was left deserted and any evidence that Twitter had once occupied the building were erased.
