MINNEAPOLIS — There's more legal drama afoot for MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, after package delivery company DHL filed a lawsuit alleging nearly $800,000 in unpaid bills.
In the lawsuit filed in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis on Monday, the DHL eCommerce unit claims MyPillow is in violation of a contract requiring the Minnesota-based company to pay for all parcel delivery services within 15 days of being billed. The lawsuit says the two parties reached a settlement in May 2023 that required MyPillow to pay $775,000 in 24 monthly installments starting in April of this year.
But in court documents, DHL alleges that MyPillow has made only partial payments on that settlement totaling $64,583.34, with the last one received on June 6. DHL says it notified MyPillow that it was in default on July 2. The lawsuit seeks $799,925.59, plus interest and attorney fees.
Lindell told The Associated Press on Thursday he didn't know what the lawsuit was about, but that his company decided to stop using DHL over a year ago in a dispute over shipments Lindell said were DHL's fault.
Lawsuits and billing disputes are nothing new for the “MyPillow Guy.” Lindell is currently being sued for defamation by two voting machine companies. Lawyers who were originally defending him in those cases quit over unpaid bills.
A credit crunch last year disrupted cash flow at MyPillow after it lost Fox News as one of its major advertising platforms and was dropped by several national retailers. A judge in February affirmed a $5 million arbitration award to a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proved that China interfered in the 2020 election.
