Queen Without a Castle?
Filed under: Music Minute
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin may lose her Detroit mansion to the taxman.
The property is worth $700K.
Franklin owes a total of $19,192 in back taxes on the property through 2007. That's not too much money. We hope she's liquid!
The Queen says she plans to pay up by a March 31 deadline. But, note, it was a $445 outstanding bill from the 2005 tax season that pushed the foreclosure proceedings.
What's the world coming to? Can't have the Queen lose her digs!
Thankfully (for him), Michael Jackson didn't lose Neverland.
If things get bad for Aretha, maybe Tina Turner will let Aretha crash at her castle in Europe.
Don't fuck with the IRS, y'all!
[Image via WENN.]
Posted: March 13, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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Looks to me like it should be Queen without a Kastle.
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I love Aretha's music, but every time I see her, I get more concerned with her health. She's morbidly OBESE! Seriously. We would be screaming if she was anorexic…I think she needs help.
Them are some big titties!
Her cleavege…is like a mile long. I love her songs though!
first? yuck, she looks hella nasty!!! pay your bills people! they have too much money for this nonsense!
SURELY SHE HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER THAT????????? SOMEBODY SHOULD GIVE
IT TO HER IF SHE HASN'T.
Seems she would have the money to pay that. Doesn't make sense.
it's as if a ghost buster thought of her and she appeared only to start eating everything in sight
Obesity in extremis.
I just hope her castle has a wide front door !!! I luv ya Aretha but for your own sake, lose some weight.
THE WOMAN SPENDS
ALL HER MONEY
ON FOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!
A "mansion" for $700k?? That's an average price for a 2-bedroom condo (if that!)!!!
She can't even afford that!?
Obviously her money is being spent on food!!
She looks hungry, someone should feeds her.
The only castle she is worried about is White Castle.
That's pretty bad. I can see when the average family have trouble making payments on their homes but for someone as wealthy as her to not pay taxes on her house? That's pathetic. No wonder the housing market is in such a crisis…everyone thinks they can get away with it…and have someone bail them out.
#18, I co-sign with you honey. That bitch spends all her money on food and let this be a lesson to people who turn their finances over to a shady accountant to pay their expenses. Watch your back!!!! Cuz accountants will steal you blind.
700K? Sounds like one shitty mansion.
It's not the IRS she owes it the county she lives in. It's for property taxes. If she doesn't pay it the county Sheriff would get the property.
perez you are such a PHONY - now you're trying to ACT like you have a SOCIAL CONSCIENCE - you're just trying to improve your image so you can pretend to be a GAY OPRAH with TV Shows, magizines & music coloumns. SO FAKE - YOU HAVE TRASHED PEEPS FOR WAY TOO LONG TO THINK ANYONE WILL FALL FOR YOUR BS NOW - YOU"RE JUST ANOTHER ORANGE OPRAH - SUCKING OFF WHOEVER YOU WANT TO USE.
her house is only $700k and she can't afford it? thats surprising, i thought she'd have a lot of money from being such a successful musician. my house is worth almost twice that and i'm just a doctor and i have no trouble paying it…you'd think the queen of soul wouldn't be having too many money problems
That's not happy. I L-O-V-E Rethers.
$700,000 for a mansion is detroit is reasonable since Detroit is a shitty garbage collecting place where tap water smells like shit (literally) and there basically is no night life there, except for gang life or illegal activity life. Who the heck would want a mansion in detroit. HAHAHAHAHA!
Re: joshua –
If you're a doctor Joshua, why the fuck are you on perez hilton at this time of day? Shouldn't you be reading your medical journals and updating your knowledge? Shouldn't you be healing patients? I bet you are fucking yourself while you are lookign at Aretha's big titties.
It's Detroit. I'm surprised her mansion is worth that much.
Aretha the Hut … if I were the Sheriff trying to seize the property I would be worried about being eaten.
let me just say that i live in detroit and aretha is NOTORIOUS for not paying her bills. i used to work for a drycleaning company that serviced her and i was always trying to collect from her. i dont care who u are, u still owe money. pay up lady!
Remember this mansion is in suburban Detroit. Property there doesn't cost anything like Beverly Hills. P.S. In suburban Boston where I live $700,000 wouldn't buy a mansion either!
It's not the IRS it's county property taxes.
Yeah, I was just about to say…with all of her money, the the hell ain't she paying her taxes??? I saw her on Emeril cooking peach cobblers. That woman loves to eat. She spending her money on groceries!
Poor Aretha, probably she didn't pay the taxes because she spent all her money on FOOD!
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oh my god! I want to grab a hold of her ears and fuck her face really Hard!!!
That is one nasty looking mamma-jamma.
She could always make a huge caslte out of the skin animals she drapes over her huge body….she is so fucking fat she could make shelter for all the homless in LA out of her fur coats….fur is murder
thats what the fucking stupid bitch gets… she is a fucking loser for wearing fur.
Re: Leeannaluvs –
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Metro Detroit. Her "mansion" is in the city of Detroit not the suburbs,
so yes in the city a $700,000 house is a mansion. That being said–just because the CITY of DETROIT is a cesspool does not mean that southeastern
Michigan is a dump. Economic times are bad here, but we have many beautiful
lakes and a lot of culture. Don't forget Oakland Counties median income is among the highest in the nation.
jesus christ this is a fat bitch. Aretha what happened? you looked hot kind of back when you were a waitress in the blues brothers. your head looks like a volley ball. Go walk on a tread mill or paddle around in a swimming pool you cow. i'd hate for your face to swell up so much it shuts your eyes, its getting close. just stop eating do something.
Oops, meant to say Queen Without a White Castle
Re: joshua – Marry me..lover
7 grand. Aretha must live in a friggin dump.
If you want to experience what it feels like to brush your teeth and rinse your "cleaned" mouth with shit water, please, go to Detroit and you shall be enlightened.
She looks like she is gargling sausage gravy.
I loves me some 'Retha, but girlfriend has been in trouble with the IRS for twenty years. She's kind of like Leona Helmsley– thinks only the "little people" pay taxes. Sorry, 'yotch, but the only reason you haven't lost your home before is because you're Aretha, a celebrity, and they are giving you a huge fucking break. We all owe taxes, sweetheart. Get used to it. If your house is worth $700K take out a goddamned equity loan and pay off the IRS.
Don't act like you're too good. They'll put your fat ass in jail.
Poor Re'Re the Hutt. $700k would only buy her a 2 bedroom condo here in Atlanta. Cheap fat-ass needs to put down the Little Debbie's and start paying her bills. She looks like the creature that Chet was turned into on "Weird Science".
Maybe the queen can borrow money from Beyonce? Karma is what Karma does …. Queen this bitch!
The only place she can actually fit into is the Superdome.
Re: chris – A 2 BEDROOM HOME IN REDWOOD CITY COST
MORE THAN HER MANSION.
HAHHAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAA…
Push yourself away from the BUFFET TABLE.
Eat a fucking salad once in a while.
'Retha is NOTORIOUS for not paying her bills. Many people have filed suits against her for this during the years. She thinks she is above all that and deserves everything for FREE. She is rumored to be quite a nasty piece of work in real life. She is quickly losing whatever fan base she had becuase she cancels concert after concert. She has cancelled 3 concerts in a row in my town…and the ticket prices started at $250. She will never be booked here again.
If Aretha has the health, she could make quick coin and pay the taxman, as she could sell out venues all over North America and Europe in a heartbeat. I'd give my eye tooth to see Aretha live. Many would. Come ON, Queen of Soul. Show 'em how it's done. Just don't skip Calgary.
Re: devilgirl – Actually, thanks to fucktards trying to keep up with the Jones', getting into massice debt, and eventually getting their mortgages forclosed on, most banks are giving equity loans right now. BUt I agree with you. She needs to pay her fucking taxes. We all have to.
dont be such a stupid fuck….property taxes are not the IRS…you obviously rent
correction: most banks are NOT giving equity loans right now.
Re: joshua – I don't think it's that she "can't" pay it, I just think she thinks she "don't" have to pay it.
She could sell some blubber and pay for the house!!!!!!!!
taxes are a bunch of bull shyt…they are not LEGAL and they are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!! both in canada and the states look it up. you wont find a law that says you absoultely have to and it is in your constituion that it is againstt the law to pay taxes for someting or other.. hasnt anyone seen ZEITGUEIST?
Blacks shouldn't have to pay taxes - they were slaves and we owe them. We should be paying them tax
OH MY GOD its so ugly. My first thought was WHALEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Ive NEVER said anything about fatties before but this one is just so nasty looking!!
Sorry, but she is disgusting! Her lazy, pathetic fat ass trumps any talent she has. She is the reason why fat fuck kids think its ok to be a lazy pig!
Re: Candy – um actually the water is amazing, you dont know shit and obviously havent been to detroit before. I LIVE 30mins frmo there and YES its a nasty area with lots of trash and ghetto places but thats what happend when blacks//the poor invade a city. But the water from detroit is pumped all the way out to the suburbs where I live and out water is amazing and DOESNT smell like anything besides good fuckin water.
"But, note, it was a $445 outstanding bill from the 2005 tax season that pushed the foreclosure proceedings." Did any of you ass monkeys read that. It was her accountant's fuck up not hers. She's not Wesley Snipes and shit. $700k in Michigan is a lot. We don't have over inflated property values like the east and west coast does.
Re: kate – Wow racist much? You live in the part of Mich that passes out the white hoods in church, huh?
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FUCK THAT STUPID BITCH!! SHE'S NOT THE QUEEN OF ANYTHING.
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haha 700k for a "mansion"???? man i hate living in california
Re: Jess –
Jess, eat my ass! She is the queen of soul! Something you know nothing about. Just stick to your bubble gum whores and zit popping music!
I'll bet Aretha never saw a pork chop she didn't like.
Fuck you bitch! Go drown in your dirty Detroit water you whore!
HERE IN GREENWICH CONNECTICUT THE AVERAGE HOME PRICE IS OVER 2 MILLION…DETROIT IS A WASTE DUMP….JUST LIKE NJ
Matt! stole my line, dammit.
I guess she forgot about that money she hid in one of her chins!
HISTORIC VOICE AND DIVA, BUT
HU ASS IS SO BIG ITS GOT TWO ZIP CODES ATTASH TU IT.
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