Prince’s ex-home on the market
Prince’s purple palace in Beverly Hills is up for grabs for an asking price just shy of US$30 million.
The late music icon painted the place he rented from basketball star Carlos Boozer with purple stripes in 2005, and then completely revamped it — much to the owner’s distaste.
“He discovered that Prince had changed almost everything about his house,” Toptenrealestatedeals.com
marketing co-ordinator Terry Walsh said. “His beautiful furnishings were gone and replaced by black-and-purple everything. The weight room was now a disco dance floor with a DJ booth and his bedrooms converted to a hair salon and massage parlour.”
Boozer threatened to sue, but Prince returned the home to the way it was when he rented it.
Today, the mansion is on an estate
comprising the main house and an English Tudor home, along with two extra parcels of land making up the total compound of 2.15 acres (.8 hectares). The palatial main house has 10 bedrooms, a ballroom, wine room, large terraces for entertaining with city and ocean views, a rooftop tennis court, indoor gym and sports court, and a pool with a stone grotto reminiscent of the one at the Playboy Mansion. The mansion is also up for lease at $80,000-per-month.