A luxury Caribbean resort tied to billionaire Bill Gates is facing a $100 million lawsuit from homeowners who claim the five-star property has deteriorated despite the hefty fees they pay to use it.
Legal and Life Troubles
The homeowners association at Four Seasons Resort Nevis filed the lawsuit Aug. 11 in Delaware Chancery Court against Nevis Peak Holdings, the company that owns the resort and surrounding property.
Nevis Peak is owned by the private investment firm Cascade Investment, the family office of Microsoft co-founder Gates, which acquired the resort about a decade ago. According to the lawsuit, Cascade held a 71.25 percent stake in the Four Seasons as of January 2022, Forbes reported.
The resort itself is located along Pinney’s Beach on the Caribbean island of Nevis and is managed by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, which is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
The homeowners claim they paid $100,000 to become members and continue to pay more than $13,000 annually to maintain access to the resort. They also face additional fees, including a 25 percent management fee on work performed for their properties and a 15 percent charge for major construction.
In return, the homeowners allege they are getting a resort that has fallen into disrepair.
Among their complaints are missing pool tiles, broken-down golf carts, outdated or nonfunctioning fitness equipment, and trash scattered around the golf course and surrounding property.
The lawsuit seeks $100 million in damages, according to the homeowners association.
Four Seasons Resort Nevis has attracted high-profile visitors over the years and sits beneath Nevis Peak, a volcanic mountain, along a stretch of Caribbean beachfront.
Gates became connected to the property through Cascade, his investment firm and family office. He has also been a longtime investor in Four Seasons alongside Saudi businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud. Kingdom Holding has held a significant stake in the hotel company.
The lawsuit does not accuse Gates, who has a fortune estimated at roughly $112 billion, personally of wrongdoing, but his ownership stake puts his investment operation at the center of the homeowners’ complaint.
Gates has also faced renewed scrutiny over his past association with Jeffrey Epstein. The tech mogul acknowledged meeting with Epstein multiple times after Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor, later describing his decision to associate with him as a “grave error in judgment.”
In June 2026, Gates testified before the House Oversight Committee about the relationship, saying he never witnessed or had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct. Gates has also denied allegations contained in some Epstein-related documents, with his representatives calling certain claims “absolutely absurd and completely false,” The Guardian reported.
Meanwhile, Gates’ youngest daughter, Phoebe Gates, has been dealing with controversy surrounding her AI shopping startup, Phia, which she co-founded with Sophia Kianni. Bloomberg reporting has alleged that Phia used a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” in which the company’s technology could take credit for sales it did not actually drive and potentially collect commissions.
Cookie stuffing is considered a deceptive affiliate marketing practice where tracking cookies are covertly placed on a user’s browser without their consent or a genuine click. This manipulates attribution systems, tricking merchants into paying unearned commissions for sales the perpetrator did not actually generate.
Phia has said the disputed features were removed and that it is reviewing transactions and issuing reversals where necessary.