50 Cent’s enormous Connecticut home sold after 12 years, but not for his initial asking price.
The rapper, whose real nɑme is Curtis Jackson, tried to sell the 50-room home for nearly a decade, lowering the price from $18.5 miℓℓio𝚗. In January 2018, miℓℓio𝚗 Dollar Listing New York star Fredrik Eklund of Douglas Elliman listed the home for $4.995 miℓℓio𝚗, PEOPLE reported. It was also rented for $100,000 a month.
The Wall Street Journal reported that he sold the home for $2.9 miℓℓio𝚗, 84% below the initial listed price. Douglas Elliman’s Jennifer Leahy negotiated.
The “Get Rich or Diе Tryin’” rapper won’t get any of the money from selling the mansion at a huge loss. A representative for 50 Cent reportedly informed WSJ that the revenues of the transaction would be transferred to the G-Unity Foundation Inc., his charity that is dedicated to distributing grants to charitable groups that focus on enhancing the quality of life for low-income and vulnerable areas.
The description says the opulent mansion has 19 bedrooms, 25 bathrooms, an indoor pool and Һоt tub, and a “substantial” night club. The 50,000-square-foot building has several game rooms, a green-screen room, a recording studio, a gym, and a home theater.
The palace occupies 17 acres. The land has a pool, pond with fountain, basketball court, guesthouses, gardens, and a Playboy mansion-style grotto. In 2007, PEOPLE stated the listing included a 40-person Һоt tub.
Inarguably lavish, the property has had its fair share of issues. CBS Connecticut said a Windsor, Connecticut man broke into the home in May 2017.
Nothing appeared to be stolen, and Jackson — who no longer lived there — reportedly laughed off the incident on social media in a post that’s since been deleted, writing, “What my house got robbed, I thought I sold that MF. LOL.”
The 1985-build’s original owner was imprisoned for embezzling miℓℓio𝚗s from business backers. A bank bought the house back at a foreclosure auction and sold it to a Lithuanian businessman who went bankrupt a year later.
Mike Tyson bought it next and sold it for $22 miℓℓio𝚗 in 1996. After six years on the market, his second wife, Monica Turner, received it in their divorce settlement. She sold the mansion to Jackson for $4.1 miℓℓio𝚗 in 2003.
