The suspect accused of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee is said to have confronted him over his sister allegedly taking drugs and becoming “naked” at a party they both attended, according to court documents. Nima Momeni, 40, became enraged when his sister, Khazar Elyassnia, called him crying for help from an alleged drug dealer’s apartment in San Francisco on April 3, 2023.
Momeni allegedly felt that Lee, 43, had failed to protect his sister and believed she was the victim of an attempted rape. However, witnesses denied that any sexual assault occurred. The three were partying at the home of Jeremy Boivin, who has been convicted twice for possessing drugs with intent to sell, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Elyassnia later called her brother and husband, Dr. Dino Elyassnia, to pick her up from Boivin’s apartment. After picking up his sister, Momeni called Lee and “proceeded to aggressively question” him about what happened at the party, 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 a trial brief filed by the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. He also called Villegas that night asking what happened at the party, to which she reassured him nothing inappropriate had taken place.
Despite this, Momeni later texted his sister saying she needed to speak to an attorney about her “attempted rape case.” 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 that Lee was heavily intoxicated at the time of the incident and had brandished the knife himself.
Momeni’s trial for murder will start on Sept. 18.
