Adam Levine and his spouse, Behati Prinsloo, have known as for a courtroom to toss out sections of a lawsuit filed towards them by their former decorator, who claims she suffered a traumatic mind damage after falling from a ladder at their $60 million mansion in Montecito, CA.
Shana Kallen, a California decorator who was enlisted by Levine, 46, and Prinsloo, 37, to overtake the outside of the sprawling property, accused the couple of “negligence” in a 2024 lawsuit, through which she alleged that she suffered extreme and debilitating accidents because of an unsafe working surroundings on the property.
Authorized paperwork seen by Realtor.com® reveal that Kallen accused the couple—who have been recognized solely by their initials, of failing to make sure a secure working surroundings at their dwelling after hiring her to embellish their outside patio with vegetation.
Kallen claims that in March 2023 she fell to the bottom from a ladder that was arrange for her to entry the second-floor patio, claiming that she hit the concrete floor and, because of this, suffered a mind damage.
Nevertheless, she then filed an amended criticism in December 2025, accusing the A-list duo of appearing with “reckless disregard” for her well-being, whereas requesting greater than $25,000 in damages, in addition to as much as $4 million to cowl her “future medical prices.”
In their very own authorized submitting on Jan. 20, Levine and Prinsloo hit again at Kallen, calling for her “improperly pled punitive damages” to be thrown out, whereas additionally asking the courtroom to strike her claims of “negligence,” claiming her accusations quantity to “boilerplate allegations that don’t rise to the extent of malice, fraud, or oppression required with a purpose to maintain a declare for punitive damages.”
The Hollywood duo profusely denied any malicious claims and declare that the accident was attributable to “passive negligence.”
Additionally they requested that the decorator’s ask for “an award of future medical prices” be tossed out, claiming that her plea is prohibited by civil code.
Kallen alleges that the autumn induced her “to violently strike the concrete floor,” leaving her in a coma for 2 days and having to endure a craniectomy.
She claimed that she skilled “vital” accidents due to the accident, together with the “diminishment” of her imaginative and prescient and listening to, inflicting her to put on listening to aids and prism glasses.
Within the criticism, the decorator additionally claimed that her accidents have additionally induced the “suspension of her driver’s license, discount in life span, and different damages to her physique and well being.”
The couple, who share three youngsters collectively, bought the elegant dwelling for $52 million in an off-market deal in 2022. They’ve since offloaded the property to relocate to a brand new house that’s nearer to their children’ college, promoting their Montecito mansion for $60 million in October.
That they had initially bought the property for $52 million in 2022 however made the choice to relocate after coming throughout what their spokesperson described as an abode that was “too particular to withstand.”
Whereas the ultimate worth for his or her mansion did not fairly attain their sky-high ask of $65 million—which noticed the house develop into the costliest property listed on the market in Montecito over the past three months—they’ll stroll away with an enormous sum, even after they poured ample cash into renovating the abode.
Based on its itemizing, the house underwent an in depth renovation throughout Levine and Prinsloo’s possession, with the couple turning to the celebrity-loved crew at Clements Design to assist them overhaul the dwelling.
In consequence, “the house is the epitome of turnkey luxurious,” the itemizing notes. The property comes with two guesthouses.
The house encompasses a “state-of-the-art health club and wellness space,” a house theater, a catering kitchen, a tennis courtroom, a vegetable backyard, a rooster coop, and a koi pond.
Because of its hilltop perch, the house additionally boasts gorgeous views of the ocean, in addition to an expanse of inexperienced garden that’s dotted with timber and vegetation.
Inside, the aesthetic is trendy, but elegant, with roaring fireplaces seen in a number of rooms to present the house a really cozy really feel with out sacrificing the traditional California vibe.
For these with a penchant for entertaining, there are a number of areas within the house to take action, together with the big kitchen that options an island able to seating loads of visitors, in addition to a proper eating room, a darkish front room full with a personal bar, and a fundamental dwelling area that encompasses a wall of home windows.
Outdoors, there’s a lounge space and a eating space the place meals could be loved below the sunshine or the celebs.
The house’s enormous swimming pool has additionally been outfitted with a number of solar loungers and umbrellas to offer one more space through which to entertain visitors or just to take in some rays in privateness.
The upstairs patio space options one more lounging space, in addition to a small desk for eating.
As one may count on of such an A-list couple, the first suite has additionally been outfitted with an unlimited walk-in closet that would double as an extra sitting room.
Levine and Prinsloo will not be shifting far nonetheless, having snapped up one other Montecito abode from fellow A-lister Oprah Winfrey, who offered the couple a dwelling positioned on her personal huge property.
Winfrey offloaded the property to the pair for $17.27 million, greater than double the worth she paid to buy the house from one other Hollywood legend, Jeff Bridges, in 2019.
It is understood that the couple plan to hold out some in depth renovations to the house, with their spokesperson beforehand revealing that they have been viewing the dwelling as an “thrilling alternative,” including that they have been going to spend round a 12 months “growing” the property.
Whereas they haven’t revealed the place they’ll reside whereas work on the property is carried out, information present that the couple additionally bought one other close by dwelling in the beginning of November for $12.5 million.
That property, which they bought by way of the identical belief as Oprah’s dwelling, boasts 7,300 sq. toes of dwelling area, together with 5 bedrooms and 6.5 bogs.
Whereas their new house was by no means placed on the MLS, as an alternative altering palms in an off-market deal, a earlier itemizing for the property described it as having been in-built 1919, with the primary residence on the sprawling parcel designed by architect James Osborne Craig.
At simply 3,500 sq. toes, the primary dwelling on the property is tiny in contrast with the 13,300 sq. toes of dwelling area the couple loved at their former residence, which they offered Oct. 7, six weeks earlier than closing on Oprah’s house.
The first residence boasts simply two bedrooms and 4 bogs, and options exposed-beam ceilings, hardwood flooring, and 5 fireplaces.
Whereas that may not appear to be sufficient area for Levine and Prinsloo’s household of 5, the property does characteristic a number of different constructions on its 4-acre parcel, together with a one-bedroom guesthouse, a carriage home with an workplace and “bonus rooms,” and an array of equestrian services, together with a five-stall barn, a corral, and a tack room.
Different exterior facilities embrace a greenhouse, lovely lawns and gardens, an orchard, and a pool and spa, based on a earlier itemizing.
