Snoop Dogg Donates $10,000 In Fight To Help 93-Year-Old South Carolina Woman Keep Home
Josephine Wright's battle against Bailey Point Investment Group has been compared to the parable of David and Goliath.
The 93-year-old woman from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is being sued by the real estate developer that is building a residential development around her family home that dates back to the end of the Civil War.
"I've just never seen a multi-million dollar company handle themselves like this," Charise Graves, one of Wright's 40 grandchildren, told USA Today.
In the effort to save her home, Wright has garnered support from celebrities around the nation, including Snoop Dogg, who donated $10,000 to the fight via Death Row Records, which he now owns.
"Josephine Wright we stand with u !!" Snoop Dogg posted on his Instagram page with an emoji of a flexing arm.
Bailey Point is seeking monetary and equitable relief "in connection with certain encroachments placed and maintained by" Bailey Point on Wright's property. The company alleges that "various personal property and improvements" encroach on land that they own around Wright's home including a satellite east of the defendant’s property; a shed south of Wright's property; and a screened porch on the existing residence.
Meanwhile, Wright's attorneys maintain that Bailey Point used "a consistent and constant barrage of tactics of intimidation, harassment, [and] trespass" to try to force the senior to sell her property.
Wright is a grandmother to 40, great-grandmother to 50, and great-great-grandmother to 16 and says that she is ready to fight for her family's history and their future, her granddaughter Charise Graves writes in a GoFundMe post set up to help Wright with her legal expenses.
"This land has been in our family since the end of the Civil War and she has poured her heart and soul into maintaining the property for herself and her family to enjoy for generations to come," Graves told USA Today.
She added, "They are also making claims that she is not the legal heir to her property which she has lived and paid taxes on for over 30 years. My grandmother is heartbroken but resilient and not ready to give up without a fight."
