Twitter sued for not paying office rent in San Francisco

California Property Trust, the owner of the building that houses the Twitter headquarters, is suing Elon Musk’s social media company for not paying $136,250 in rent. In accordance (via ), the firm notified Twitter on December 16 that it would default on its lease for the 30th floor of the Hartford Building, located at 650 California Street in San Francisco, if it did not pay its outstanding rent within five days. In a complaint filed this week in San Francisco County Superior Court, the California Property Trust said Twitter did not comply with the order.

According to a December 13 report had “for weeks” stopped paying rent on all its global offices to save costs. The company is also facing a lawsuit for not paying $1[ads1]97,725 for charter flights Musk took during his first week at Twitter. During the same time period, Musk reportedly brought in “more than half a dozen” lawyers from SpaceX to bolster Twitter’s legal team.