DETROIT (AP) — A historic Detroit mansion owned by late singing legend Aretha Franklin has been sold.
The Detroit News reported that, according to public records, the 520-square-metre brick home adjacent to the Detroit Golf Club fetched USD300,000 in a sale last month. It was built in 1927.
The newspaper reported Franklin bought the home in 1993, but nearly lost it in 2008 due to unpaid property taxes. Franklin estate personal representative Sabrina Garrett-Owens said “there are no other Detroit properties” that were owned by the Queen of Soul. Her 385-square-metre Colonial-style house in suburban Detroit’s Bloomfield Township still is listed for USD800,000.
Franklin died of pancreatic cancer in August in her Detroit riverfront apartment. She was 76.
