{"id":152238,"date":"2019-05-04T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/aretha-franklins-michigan-home-has-a-buyer-if-court-lets-the-estate-sell"},"modified":"2019-05-04T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:19:50","slug":"aretha-franklins-michigan-home-has-a-buyer-if-court-lets-the-estate-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/aretha-franklins-michigan-home-has-a-buyer-if-court-lets-the-estate-sell","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin&#039;s Michigan Home Has a Buyer, If Court Lets the Estate Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-87587\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2019_05_04_aretha-franklin-detroit-condo-home-estate-selling-court-permission-buyer\">\n<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf1\">Aretha Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf2\">Estate Wants to Sell Her Home \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf3-case\">Say a Little Prayer for Us!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-posted-date\">\n<\/h5>\n<p>   5\/4\/2019 8:39 AM PDT<\/p>\n<div class=\"all-post-body group article-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Aretha\" alt=\"Aretha\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aretha-Franklin039s-Michigan-Home-Has-a-Buyer-If-Court-Lets-the-Estate-Sell.jpg\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/aretha-franklin\/\"><strong>Aretha Franklin<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s home is up for sale and there\u2019s a buyer on the hook \u2014 but her estate doesn\u2019t have permission to seal the deal \u2026 yet.<\/p>\n<p>According to new legal docs, the Queen of Soul\u2019s estate is looking to liquidate her assets and eliminate expenses after her passing \u2026 which means unloading her properties in the Detroit area.<\/p>\n<p>Aretha\u2019s main residence was a condo in the north suburbs, and the estate says it has plans locked down to sell it to someone for $325,000. If the judge signs off on it, the sale can proceed. A court hearing is scheduled for later this month.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported \u2026 when Aretha\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/08\/16\/aretha-franklin-dead-queen-of-soul\/\"><strong>died in August<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0she left behind some debts \u2014 including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/12\/27\/aretha-franklin-owes-irs-8-million-back-taxes-penalties\/\"><strong>massive tax bill<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and her estate has been working to resolve any remaining issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new docs \u2026 the estate still has a $100k debt and owes $5.2 million in taxes \u2026 but she had millions invested in property which will help settle the tab.<\/p>\n<p>Selling the condo would be a big step in that direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/05\/04\/aretha-franklin-detroit-condo-home-estate-selling-court-permission-buyer\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/aretha-franklins-michigan-home-has-a-buyer-if-court-lets-the-estate-sell\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aretha Franklin Estate Wants to Sell Her Home \u2026 Say a Little Prayer for Us!!! 5\/4\/2019 8:39 AM PDT Aretha Franklin\u2018s home is up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}