Rihanna sues over leaks at LA home
(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - These days, pop diva Rihanna is worried about leaks.
Not the kind that can land her in the tabloids, but the ones that can ruin the carpeting and undermine the walls.
She is suing Prudential California Realty and several companies that designed and inspected the hillside home that she claims has serious structural defects that rendered in uninhabitable.
The "S&M" singer's lawsuit, filed Wednesday, claims she would not have paid $6.9 million for the home in 2009 if she had known about the problems. She claims that after a 2010 rainstorm water leaked into several rooms of the house from a balcony that lacks the proper slope and drainage. The suit states the damage left the home "uninhabitable.''
She claims Landmark Design Group, which remodeled the home, has failed to make necessary repairs.
Prudential spokeswoman Wendy Durand says the company does not comment on pending lawsuits.