Alex Dorian is suing for breach of contract and claims he is owed $451,000 since he allegedly provided funds during his short-lived business partnership with Mei Li Haskell

Dorian’s claims are further complicated since there is an ongoing case to settle the Haskells’ estates after the husband murdered Mei Li, her parents Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li on Nov 6, 2023 

Samuel Bond Haskell IV, 37, died by suicide in jail on July 12, 2025, days before his scheduled court appearance for a preliminary hearing for triple-homicide

While Dorian claims he lent Mei Lei Haskell funds to offset the down payment and repairs on the Tarzana mansion, and other sums borrowed, amounting “$360,000”

Attorneys representing Mei Li’s estate counter that Dorian has a litigation history involving similar breach of contract, fraud, conversion, and breach of partnership claims

They have requested proof of those transactions and business relation

Mei Li Haskell [photo], and her parents were murdered by her husband wh o later committed suicide in 2023. Alex Dorian is suing her estate for breach of contract, claiming he is owed nearly half a million dollars for alleged loans during their business partnership

In November 2023, Samuel Bond Haskell IV brutally murdered and dismembered his 37-year-old wife Mei Li Haskell. A year later, on November 7, 2024, a businessman sued her estate, alleging breach of contract
Alex Doria says he was Mei Li’s business partner, is claiming he bankrolled her expenses, therefore entitled to the amount of $451,000 from her estate.
According to Dorian’s complaint, he is owed nearly half a million dollars since he allegedly provided funds during his short-lived partnership with Mei Li.
Dorian’s claims are further complicated since there is an ongoing case to settle the Haskells’ estates after Sam Haskell IV murdered his wife Mei Li Haskell, along with her mother Yanxiang Wang, 64, and her stepfather Gaoshan Li, 71, on November 6, 2023. 
Triple homicide suspect Sam Bond Haskell IV, 37, died by suicide at the Downtown Los Angeles Twin Towers jail on July 12, 2025, before he could go on trial.

In July 2025, Mei Li’s husband Sam Bond Haskell IV, [photo], committed suicide behind bars, days before his scheduled court appearance for a preliminary hearing for the murders of his wife, as well as her parents, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li

Dorian represented by Jodi Montgomery, who famously served as Britney Spears’ personal conservator. filed the claim against Mei Li’s estate and the estate’s representative, demanding that her estate should pay up for the money he allegedly fronted her, including the down payment for the couple’s $2.6 million Tarzana, California, home, where the grisly murders occurred.
The sprawling six-bedroom, suburban Los Angeles house was sold in May.
‘At Mei’s oral request, Plaintiff agreed to lend money to Mei on several occasions for the purchase, remodeling/construction, and mortgage payments of her home located at 4115 Coldstream terrace, Tarzana, CA,’ the complaint reads. 

A possible motive for the triple-homicide according to LA County prosecutors, is that Sam Haskell IV seen [photo], with his wife Mei Li, was having an affair with a younger woman and planned to flee to Japan with his new paramour

The late couple’s home in Tarzana, California, was recently sold. Dorian claims he provided the down payment for the $2.6 million Tarzana, California, home, where the murders occurred

‘Mei informed Plaintiff that she was to buy this property with the intention of “flipping it.”
‘As such, these oral loans/contracts were made with the promise that the full amount lent would be repaid with interest at the time that Mei sold her House. Mei’s personal representative, Jodi Pais Montgomery, has now sold the house, meaning that the loans are now outstanding.’ 
Haskell IV is the son of Hollywood super-agent Sam Haskell III, a respected former executive vice president and global head of the William Morris Agency.
While information is scant on the income streams of Mei Li and her aspiring filmmaker husband, or how they could afford their multi-million dollar home where they lived with their three young sons and Mei Li’s parents, neighbors have said that Samuel Haskell III provided financial help for his son and the wife.

The homicide investigation began with finding the remains of Mei Li Haskell [left]. However, the bodies of her parents Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li who lived with the couple were never found

Allegedly, Sam Haskell IV was struggling to find his footing as a filmmaker and had a sick fascination with weapons, violent films and sex. His wife Mei Li ran a business teaching foreign students how to navigate competitive Ivy League college admissions. 
Dorian’s lawsuit alleges he not only provided Mei Li with the down payment on their home, but that he also loaned her $100,000 to remodel it before selling.
The businessman also claimed he and Mei Li entered into an agreement where she would run their sports card business that was worth at least $100,000, according to the suit.
The lawsuit also claims the partnership collected $350,000 in stocks and cryptocurrency.
‘Alex and Mei (herein “Partners”) entered into a general partnership (hereinafter “Partnership”) in 2017,’ according to the complaint. 
‘Apart from being Partners, Alex and Mei became good friends and trusted each other.’
Dorian claims the partnership was worth $902,000 in total, and that he is entitled to half.

Before he was arrested for murdering the mother of his three children and her parents, aspiring Hollywood film maker Sam Haskell [photo], worked as a videographer and producer in Los Angeles, according to his IMDB page and social media accounts

Montgomery has asked the court for an emergency order to grant her the authority to hire a civil attorney so they can address Dorian’s claims. 
In a motion filed last week, the civil attorneys representing Montgomery and Mei Li’s estate asked the court to compel Dorian to provide more documentation supporting his claims. 
Montgomery and Mei Li’s estate allege that Dorian has a history of making false claims.
‘Plaintiff’s litigation history involving similar breach of contract, fraud, conversion, and breach of partnership claims is directly relevant to evaluating his credibility, pattern of business dealings, and modus operandi in bringing similar lawsuits,’ Montgomery’s response said. 
They also allege Dorian claimed to have ‘lost’ all evidence of texts, emails and social media posts he might’ve exchanged with Mei Li. 
They continued: ‘Documents about these specific business operations are essential to verify whether the Partnership actually conducted these activities and accumulated the claimed assets. 
‘These would include sports card purchase receipts, inventory lists, sales records, client contracts for consulting services, invoices, payment records, and business correspondence. 
‘If Plaintiff was truly a 50 percent partner in businesses that accumulated $100,000 in sports cards and received consulting fees, he would possess some documentation of these operations. The complete absence of such records suggests these business operations never existed.’
A separate probate case is also ongoing regarding Sam’s estate. 

While Dorian claims he lent Mei Lei Haskell funds to offset the down payment and repairs on the Tarzana mansion, and other sums amounting “$360,000.00”, attorneys representing her estate counter that he has a history of false financial claims, want proof of those transactions

According to court documents, Sam and Mei Li’s three young sons have left California and are staying with family, as the division of the Haskells’ estates winds it’s way through the court system.
One possible motive for the triple-homicide according to Los Angeles County prosecutors, is that Sam Haskell IV was having an affair with a 27-year-old woman and planned to flee to Japan with his new paramour.
The day after Haskell is purported to have murdered and dismembered his wife and her parents, he allegedly paid day laborers $500 to dispose of heavy black bags from his home.
When the laborers opened one of the bags, they discovered human body parts, they decided to return the bags to Haskell, then called the police. 

Mei Li Haskell’s partial remains were discovered inside a trash bin in the nearby city of Encino by a transient. The remains of her parents were never found

Her partial remains were also discovered inside a trash bin in the nearby city of Encino by a transient. The remains of her parents were never found. 
Investigators later obtained video footage of Haskell transferring more black trash bags from his Tesla to a rented SUV. The Tesla, which was registered to Mei Li, was spotted by police at an AirBnB in Tarzana where he had been staying with his sons after the murders, prosecutors said.
LAPD investigators found a .357 loaded revolver inside a holster, 32 rounds of live ammunition, a blood-encrusted military-style knife, a headlamp and firearm sight in the rental car.   
DNA analysis of blood on the military knife matched to all three victims, while blood stains on the firearm matched the genetic profiles of Mei Li and Gaoshan Li, investigators said.
Further forensic testing showed large amounts of blood evidence was cleaned up throughout the home, which included DNA matches to all three victims, prosecutors said.

Sam Haskell who appeared in court shirtless and wearing an anti-self-harm vest on his arraignment on December 8, 2023, was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole if he was convicted for the three homicides

Haskell was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole if he was convicted.
He initially told prosecutors he planned to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, but instead he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Twin Towers jail in Downtown LA on July 12.
According to the autopsy report released by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office, Haskell’s cause of death was ‘incised wounds to the bilateral upper extremities.’
The ME”s report highlighted multiple lacerations found on Haskell’s left and right arms just below his elbow which cut through both basilic veins, concluding that he’d bled to death.