On the heart of millionaire Money App founder Bob Lee’s explosive homicide trial is the suspect’s sister — a glamorous plastic surgeon’s spouse who was reportedly concerned in San Francisco’s underground celebration scene, which regularly includes medicine and swinging intercourse.
Khazar Elyassnia, 38, has allegedly been partying and sleeping with Lee when her brother, Nima Momeni, 40, stabbed Lee to loss of life within the early hours of April 4, 2023.
That night time, 43-year-old Lee was discovered bleeding out and begging for assist in the guts of San Francisco at 2:30 a.m. — simply half an hour after he was noticed leaving Elyassnia’s posh Millennium Tower residence alongside Momeni.
Momeni’s attorneys say he killed Lee in self protection, alleging the tech founder was excessive on medicine and tried to slash Momeni.
Lee and Elyassnia had been concerned in a rich San Francisco’s celebration scene often called “The Life-style,” which revolves round drug use and informal intercourse, the Wall Road Journal beforehand reported.
The couple had attended such a celebration collectively the night time of the killing, and Momeni was underneath the impression that Lee had drugged and raped his sister, prosecutors argued throughout their opening statements Monday.
Momeni determined to precise revenge on behalf of his sister, prosecutors stated — just for Khazar to name her brother “f–king psychotic” hours later in “damning” textual content messages.
Prosecutors stated these messages are a key a part of the proof that may show Momeni is responsible of first-degree homicide.
Additional ramping up the drama — Momeni’s attorneys tried to have Lee’s ex-wife Krista barred from the courtroom after she referred to Khazar as “the whore of excessive tower” — a reference to her house in a luxurious high-rise, courtroom paperwork present.
The siblings are reportedly shut, pals have beforehand stated, born lower than a 12 months aside and immigrating from Iran with their mom within the Nineties.
“[Nima] would do completely something for [Khazar] and she or he would do something for him,” one good friend instructed Mission Native.
Since 2013, Khazar has been married to Dr. Dino Elyassnia, a outstanding plastic surgeon who makes a speciality of nose-jobs.
His identify has been splashed throughout magazines for years, the place he’s talked glowingly of his marriage and spouse, in line with the San Francisco Normal.
He has joined her in courtroom all through her brother’s trial proceedings.
However the picture of a sunny marriage has grown cloudy since her identify was linked to Lee and “The Life-style.”
One particular person instructed the Normal he matched with Khazar on a courting app in 2019 and even went residence along with her.
Final November, she was arrested for a DUI after smashing her Mercedes into a number of vehicles in broad daylight in San Francisco.
Cops alleged stated they noticed her huffing nitrous oxide whereas behind the wheel, and police found spent canisters of the intoxicating inhalant in her automotive.
The costs had been later dropped pending additional investigation.
It’s unclear when her alleged relationship with Lee began, however she beforehand denied being sexually assaulted by anybody on the celebration — and even insisted to her brother that nothing untoward occurred, in line with courtroom paperwork.
Momeni has pleaded not responsible to homicide.
“Nima needed to stand his floor towards somebody who had barely slept in a 90-hour span and was using cocaine the entire time,” lawyer Saam Zangeneh stated in courtroom, in line with the Normal.
“Individuals on these long-term cocaine benders they’re paranoid, aggressive, and violent.”
Lee was discovered with each ketamine and cocaine in his system when he died.
