R&B singer R. Kelly’s disgraced five-bedroom, 8,400-square-foot brick home with lake views, which he owned from 1994 to 2002, sold Friday for $2.9 million.
Once used as a cigarette vending machine business, the mansion was converted into a single-family home by a commodity dealer in the 1980s. It has been on the market for almost two years and has had several owners since Kelly, who paid $1.1 million in 1994 and sold it for $2.25 million in 2002. Kelly, facing guilt, sold it to Peak6 Capital founder Matthew Halsiser in 2002, which he sold in 2005 for $2.4 million. This home he sold again in 2006 for $3 million and in 2008 due to a foreclosure he sold for just $1 million.
The seller paid $2.74 million in 2011. First, in October 2020, he went public at $3.99 million, and in January he lowered the asking price to $3.49 million, followed by his $3.25 million and his $2.99 million.
Built in 1905, this home was renovated between 2017 and 2019 and features 5½ bathrooms, 50 foot wide interiors, nearly 30 foot ceilings on the main level, an indoor swimming pool, and a 3,000 square foot roof deck. , an elevator for all levels, a theatre, an exercise center with steam room and sauna, and a kitchen with Wolf, Miele and Gaggenau appliances. Primary bedroom suite features approximately 300 square feet of walk-in closet, bathroom with oversized steam shower and heated floors, rooftop Kalamazoo grill, pizza oven, bar seating, covered seating for 10 There is an area. .
Mario Greco, listing agent for Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Chicago, told Elite Street: “This house is rare. It is singular in every way.”
When Kelly owned the house, it had a 1,500-gallon shark-filled aquarium and a marble chessboard embedded in the floor. These features have been removed.
Kelly was convicted of racketeering and Mann Act violations in Brooklyn last year and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. He is currently on trial in Chicago federal court for child pornography, conspiracy to make child pornography, and conspiracy to make child pornography. obstruct justice.
After selling her Lakeview home, Kelly moved into a 20,000-square-foot mansion on seven acres in Olympia Field. It was at the Olympiafield mansion that Kelly was accused of making a sex tape with an underage girl. He was acquitted of the first charges resulting from the tape in his 2008. He sold his Olympia Fields mansion in 2013 to his R&B singer-songwriter Rudolph Isley.
The Lakeview home was charged $56,939 in property taxes for the 2020 tax year. Public records have not yet identified the purchaser.
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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