Queen of Soul’s Detroit mansion sells for B9.9mn
A historic Detroit mansion owned by late singing legend Aretha Franklin has been sold.
The Detroit News reports that, according to public records, the 520m² brick home adjacent to the Detroit Golf Club fetched US$300,000 (9.9 million baht) in a sale last month. It was built in 1927.
The newspaper reports that Franklin bought the home in 1993, but nearly lost it in 2008 due to unpaid property taxes.
Franklin-estate personal representative Sabrina Garrett-Owens says that “there are no other Detroit properties’’ that were owned by the Queen of Soul.
Meanwhile, her 385m² Colonial-style house in suburban Detroit’s Bloomfield Township still is listed for the price of $800,000 (26.4 million baht).
Franklin died of pancreatic cancer in August in her Detroit riverfront apartment. She was 76.