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Mike Lindell's MyPillow is getting evicted from its Minnesota warehouse after the company failed to cough up over $200,000 in unpaid rent
By Kwan Wei Kevin Tan,
30 days ago
Things aren't looking great for Mike Lindell.
The embattled businessman is now facing eviction for one of his warehouses in Minnesota.
Lindell's company owes more than $217,000 in rent to its landlord, per the Star Tribune .
Mike Lindell's MyPillow is getting evicted from one of its Minnesota warehouses, the Star Tribune, a local Minnesota newspaper, reported on Tuesday.
"MyPillow has more or less vacated, but we'd like to do this by the book," the landlord's attorney, Sara Filo, said during an eviction court hearing on Tuesday, per Star Tribune.
"At this point, there's a representation that no further payment is going to be made under this lease, so we'd like to go ahead with finding a new tenant," Filo continued.
MyPillow owes First Industrial more than $217,000 in rent and other charges, per court filings seen by the Star Tribune. It is unclear if MyPillow and its staff have fully vacated the premises, but First Industrial's representatives say they have sent at least four eviction notices to MyPillow since September.
Filo's request was granted by Scott County Chief Judge Caroline Lennon on Tuesday, per the Star Tribune.
Lindell discussed the eviction in an interview with the Minnesota Reformer published Tuesday.
Lindell told the outlet that the warehouse, located at 4701 Valley Boulevard S. in Shakopee, was one-third the size of MyPillow's main warehouse and was initially used to store retail equipment.
Lindell told BI that MyPillow staff have not been working out of the building since August 2023, and that it's now "an empty warehouse." It was being sub-let, Lindell said, but "the sub-renters backed out in February."
Lindell added that the MyPillow headquarters in Chaska are still going, and that the company also continues to operate a facility in Shakopee.
The eviction notice is a new development in a shocking downward spiral for one of America's biggest pillow salesmen.
The decline in sales also appears to have put the brakes on MyPillow's marketing activities. Lindell told the Associated Press in January that his company owes Fox News around $7.8 million in advertising fees.
In October, Lindell's lawyers said they were dropping him as a client after he owed them millions in legal fees. Lindell has since engaged new lawyers to represent him in court, per Star Tribune.
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