Ex-NBA Star Lamar Odom Faces Eviction From His Home For Allegedly Failing To Pay $45K In Rent

Lamar Odom has been ordered to vacate his Los Angeles residence, following allegations that he failed to pay $45,000 in rent.

The former NBA star suffered a near-fatal drug overdose in 2015 and has adopted a walking stick to support himself since then.

Lamar Odom, who was previously married to Khloe Kardashian, has opened up about his struggles with drug addiction, explaining that although Kardashian was his wife, cocaine was "his girlfriend."

According to the New York Post, Odom has been ordered to vacate his L.A. rental after the landlord took him to court for allegedly failing to pay $45,000 in rent.

The two-time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers has faced several personal problems in recent years, including drug abuse and a failed marriage to reality TV star Khloe Kardashian.

Now, reports suggest that the sublessor of his L.A. rental, Executive Recovery Group, Inc., sued him, claiming that in December 2024, he entered an oral agreement with them to rent the property on a month-to-month basis.

Odom is said to have agreed to pay $15,000 per month in rent, which was due on the first day of every month. However, he allegedly failed to pay three months' rent from January 1 to March 31.

In the notice, Executive Recovery Group, Inc. claimed that it had given him several notices to pay or leave the property, including one in which it warned that he was "required to pay said rent in full within three (3) days."

"If you fail to perform or otherwise comply, Landlord declares the forfeiture of the lease or rental agreement under which you occupy said premises," the notice declared.

The sublessor's effort to get the basketball star to pay his rent or acknowledge receipt of the notices seemed to have been unsuccessful, even after the company mailed a copy to him.

"At the time the 3-day notice to pay rent or quit was served, the amount of rent due was $45,000," the lawsuit read, which also alleged the fair value of the premises "is $500 per day."

Executive Recovery Group, Inc. also stated that it included an "election of forfeiture" in the filing, and on March 17, allegedly terminated the lease agreement with Odom.

According to the New York Post, the court ruled in April that Odom is to vacate the premises and for Executive Recovery Group Inc. to take possession of the home.

Things started spiraling down when Odom suffered a life-threatening overdose at the Nevada brothel, the Love Ranch, in 2015. At the time, the 45-year-old star entered a coma and suffered 12 strokes and six heart attacks.

He and Kardashian were going through marital troubles, but after his health scare, the reality TV star placed their divorce proceedings on hold and supported her then-husband during his hospitalization.

In an April appearance on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, Kardashian explained that she "started going ballistic" when she caught Odom cheating on her with another woman in a motel in downtown L.A.

At the time, she explained that she'd seen people's posts on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that they'd seen Odom at questionable places, which led her to scour the Internet looking for clues about his location.

When Kardashian arrived at the hotel, she asked the front desk which room the basketball star was staying in and proceeded to go there.

"I saw in the window that him and this girl were — they were either naked or she was in lingerie, something like that," she said, per the L.A. Times. "I knocked on the door, they answered it for some reason, and I just started going ballistic."

The former couple finalized their divorce in December 2016.

Odom has previously been candid about his alleged cheating and struggles with drug and substance abuse.

In a TMZ documentary, Odom admitted that while Kardashian was his wife, cocaine was "his girlfriend."

Noting that he was "embarrassed" by his infidelity, he went ahead to explain that Kardashian was aware of his struggles but was "a good wife" as she "wanted to protect" him.

"For part of our marriage, I had to tell her. You can't hide that. She was hurt. But Khloe was a good wife. She wasn't dismissive, or like, 'Get away from me,' or ugly and nasty. She … wanted to protect me. Behind the scenes, I put her through sh-t," he admitted.

On his infidelity, he said, "I had these random women coming out … I was having full-blown relationships on the road, and my wife is Khloe Kardashian. It's buggin'. I'm laughing out of embarrassment."

Odom spoke in detail about how Khloe supported him during his recovery from the overdose-induced coma. He revealed that the "The Kardashians" star visited him regularly and even called Khloe his "angel," noting that "she's a trooper."

When I woke up out of the coma, my memory was terrible and I couldn't walk or talk, and just her spirit, always being there, her bringing pictures of my mother, my grandmother, just to help me bring my memory back," Odom said per The Mirror.

Khloe eventually moved on from Odom with another basketball player, Tristan Thompson, with whom she now has two children: daughter True and son Tatum. The reality TV star and Thompson have since ended their relationship after news leaked that he'd fathered another child with a different woman.