It was not the kind of Brooklyn real estate story that ends with a bottle of rosé and a set of keys. Chris Pine, the actor best known for playing everyone from a starship captain to a grimly competent CIA operative, has filed a lawsuit against a New York developer after a rental deal reportedly fell apart and $100,000 did not come back with it.
The suit names Carlos Saavedra in connection with a Brooklyn townhouse rental arrangement that collapsed before Pine ever moved in. According to the complaint, money was put down and the deal dissolved — but the funds, per Pine's legal team, did not follow. The figure at the center of the dispute is $100,000.
Curbed, which first reported the suit on July 16, 2026, identified the property as a Brooklyn townhouse development. The specifics of what triggered the deal's collapse have not been detailed in public filings as of publication.
Pine's team has not commented publicly beyond the filing. Saavedra had not issued a statement as of Thursday afternoon. No court date has been scheduled.
Celebrity landlord disputes are a reliable feature of New York's high-end rental market — a tier where deposits routinely run well into six figures and verbal assurances have a way of evaporating when closings go sideways. Pine's suit lands at the less glamorous end of the star-property nexus: not a bidding war or a gut renovation, just a wire transfer and an argument about where it went.
The case remains open in New York courts.