US rapper Goldlink faces being booted out of his rented luxury London home after being accused of throwing a series of rowdy parties.
The 31-year-old performer – real name D’Anthony Carlos – hired the Rotherhithe house in February this year on a two-year tenancy after the owners moved to France.
He agreed only use the property as a private residence and keep music to minimum after 11pm to avoid disturbing the neighbours.
But it is said he has brought chaos to the community by throwing four ticketed parties, with hundreds of people descending on the home. Social media videos also circulated of the parties in full flow.
A judge at Central London county court granted an interim injunction in August, banning Goldlink from hosting commercial or ticketed parties.
He is accused of breaking the terms of the injunction, and the owners are now taking steps to get him removed from the home.
The rapper could face asset seizures, fines, and even a prison sentence if he breaches the court order.
Under the terms of the order, the rapper is banned from allowing anyone but immediate family into the property, smoking inside the home, playing music that is audible outside between 11pm and 10am, and advertising parties.
Barristers Tom Morris and Brooke Lyne, with law firm Taylor Wessing, represented the home owners as they presented the court with evidence of four parties that had been thrown at the property inBrunel Road.
The home, they said, is a “large luxury home, developed to a high specification by its owners, who formerly occupied it as their family home.
“When they moved to France, they agreed to grant a tenancy to Goldlink for two years, starting in February 2024.
“The terms of the tenancy prevented Goldlink from using the property other than as a private residence, from playing music so as to be audible outside the property after 11pm, from causing annoyance to neighbours, from smoking, and from taking in any paying guest.“In breach of those covenants, Goldlink had been organising and hosting ticketed parties in the property, organised through his company, Iffy FM Ltd.
“There was evidence of four such events having taken place and that they involved the use of the flat in a manner akin to a nightclub with professional sound equipment.
“The evidence also showed that they were attended by hundreds of people, that cannabis had been consumed, and that the neighbours had been substantially disturbed.”
An interim injunction was granted in August, and lawyers in the case said Goldlink has not yet entered any defence case.
“Following a breach of the terms of the injunction by Goldlink, the claimant is now taking steps to obtain possession of the property”, the lawyers added.
