Aretha might lose the crib
Posted by Media Outrage on March 13, 2008
Due to Aretha Franklin being preoccupied with hating on Beyonce and trying to introduce legislation that would make it a crime punishable by being drowned in cat piss for anyone who refers to another legend, especially that chick Tina Turner as ‘The Queen’, the tax man was putting his own little plan together to snatch big mommas crib right from under her.
Via AP:
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.
Franklin’s slate-roofed brick mansion was built in 1927.
