The man accused of murdering Cashapp founder Bob Lee confronted him about his sister allegedly taking drugs and “getting naked” at a party they both attended, according to court documents.
Nima Momeni was said to have become enraged when his sister, Khazar Elyassnia, called him crying to come and get her from an alleged San Francisco drug dealer’s apartment on April 3, 2023.
Momeni, 40, felt Lee, 43, had failed to protect his sister and that she had been victim of an attempted rape, according to a trial brief filed by the San Francisco District Attorney’s office.
Khazar and others denied she had been sexually assaulted, according to the brief obtained by The Post.
Witnesses describe how Elyassnia, a friend named Aranza Villegas and Lee had all been partying at the home of Jeremy Boivin, who has twice been convicted of possessing drugs with intent to sell, per Rolling Stone.
Lee left but Elyassnia and Villegas stayed and Boivin allegedly gave them the drug GHB, according to the DA, which is a powerful sedative.
Villegas said she passed out, but when she came to Elyassnia was crying and changing clothes, then called her brother and husband, Dr. Dino Elyassnia, to come and pick her up, according to the brief.
After he had picked up his sister, Momeni called Lee and “proceeded to aggressively question” him about what had happened, according to a friend who was with him at the time.
Momeni “interrogated Mr. Lee about drug use in the apartment, Khazar’s conduct, and specifically about ‘the girls getting naked’ at Mr. Boivin’s apartment,” according to the DA’s brief.
He also called Villegas that night asking what had happened at the party, to which she reassured him nothing inappropriate had taken place, according to the brief.
Despite this, Momeni later texted his sister saying she needed to speak to an attorney about her “attempted rape case,” the brief states.
She responded by saying: “Bob never touched me // No one did.”
Via text, Momeni also scolded his sister for “f–k[ing] up,” prompting her to call him “f–king psychotic” and add: “[y]ou scare me,” according to the brief.
Despite the apparent falling out, Lee and Momeni spent time at the Elyassnia residence later that evening, before leaving together around 2 a.m. on the morning of April 4 last year.
The pair were next spotted together on Rincon Hill neighborhood, where Lee was stabbed three times with a kitchen knife, later found to have been taken from a set at Elyassnia’s house.
The DA is planning to submit the accounts and texts at trial, set for Sept. 18, to establish Momeni’s animosity toward Lee and a motive for him to stab him.
His defense maintain Lee, who they say was by then heavily intoxicated, was the aggressor who had brandished the knife and Momeni only acted in self-defense, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
His team wrote they will argue “specifically that Mr. Momeni stood his ground after Mr. Lee attacked him with a weapon.”
Momeni’s attorneys did not respond to a further request for comment from The Post.
The DA also plans to include a video at trial showing Momeni making “three stabbing gestures with his hand” while in conversation with a private detective, a video taken six days after Lee’s death by a police officer watching Momeni’s movements.
The stabbing motions “directly correspond to the three distinct stab wounds suffered by Mr. Lee,” according to the DA, who claims the video will counteract any self-defense claims.
After Lee’s death, Elyassnia enquired with her brother about what happened between them and saying she would “find out what happened to Bob,” according to the court filing.
Momeni texted back: “I don’t know what [Mr. Lee] ended up doing at the bar or strip club, I just came home,” the papers state.
Momeni’s trial for murder will start on Sept. 18.
