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March 13, 2008
Detroit Wants T-A-X-E-S, Not R-E-S-P-E-C-T, From Aretha Franklin
From the Associated Press:
Aretha Franklin could lose her home to tax collectors. The singer says an attorney's mistake caused her $700,000 mansion in Detroit to slip into foreclosure over $445 in 2005 taxes and late fees. The Detroit Free Press reports Thursday the Queen of Soul owes a total of $19,192 in back taxes on the property through 2007. She says she plans to pay up and reclaim it by a March 31 deadline.
A spokesman for the Wayne County treasurer's office says the foreclosure judgment for $445 was entered earlier this month. Records show Franklin owes $18,746 in back taxes and fees for the 2006 and 2007 tax years, but foreclosure proceedings on those debts wouldn't begin until next year.
For a picture of the home, see here.
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You can get a MANSION in Detroit for $700,000? I live in a middle class neighborhood just North of Downtown Los Angeles. The house next door sold for $753,000 and it's only 2 bedrooms and doesn't even have a garage or a backyard to speak of (just a concrete slab).
Posted by: Ameno | Mar 14, 2008 2:20:44 AM
