DesireeNevermind said:

Isn't his house that once belonged to Mike Tyson up for sale???

SCNDLS said:

dayum i thought he was getting over with that vitamin water buyout (50 mill). i loves me some vitamin water.

DesireeNevermind said:

Something about that deal and the amount of money always sounded off to me.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008
50 Cent's Mansion in Farmington For Sale

OK, admit it, you're totally curious. You've always wanted a sneak-peak at rapper 50 Cent's Farmington mansion, but you don't fancy scaling the walls (yes I've heard of people trying this - and I'm not recommending it), and you're not willing to drop the reported $18,500,000 price tag. Not this week anyway, check out the listing on the real estate website below. This is how the other half lives - with 54 different places to "powder your nose".

The listing describes the fabulously crazy crib as an "Exquisite sprawling compound designed for extended households. Grand lobby with dual circular staircases and elevator, a board room, spacious office..." The palatial pad sits on 17 acres of land and also includes an elaborate Baccarat crystal dining room chandelier, an outdoor sports court, an infinity edge pool and spacious hot tub tucked behind a waterfall in the rock grotto. The entire back of the house overlooks a beautiful Koi pond with a picture perfect guest house across the water. The gate house sets the stage for state-of-the-art security behind a gated entry.

Here you can take a look around the huge 51657 sq. ft. 19 bedroom, 35 bathroom "house".
[Edited 8/11/09 10:14am]

Rapper 50 Cent's 53-room Connecticut estate – once owned by Mike Tyson – is on the market.

The 20-year-old, 50,000-plus-sq.-ft. residence, which cost Fitty (real name: Curtis James Jackson III) $4.1 million in 2003, is located in Farmington and rests on 17 acres, the Hartford Courant first reported.

It features about 19 bedrooms, 37 bathrooms, a gym, billiard rooms, racquetball courts and a disco. The asking price is unknown, but local brokers – who tell the paper the house could be a small hotel were it not for zoning laws – estimate that it is more than $10 million.

After 50 Cent bought the property, he spent up to $10 million renovating it, including the addiiton of a 40-person hot tub situated in a grotto, brokers familiar with the property tell PEOPLE.

"He's put a lot into it, and it's all very tasteful, except the stripper poles," Curt Clemens Sr., owner of Century 21 Clemens & Sons in Hartford, tells the Courant. Clemens, who represented the property when it was owned by Tyson, said he toured the house a few months ago but is not handling the sale.

On the down side, "It's an impossible house to use because of its gargantuan size," Clemens says. "Only a very minute portion of the population could afford to buy it, maintain it and would want it."

Past owners of the house, which was built in 1985, apparently have not had the best of luck. According to a timeline in the Courant, first owner Benjamin Sisti, a founder of Colonial Realty, spent $2.3 million on the residence – and he was later jailed for bilking investors out of millions.

The mansion was bought by a bank at a foreclosure auction for $3.5 million and in 1993 sold it for $2.7 million to Lithuanian businessman Romas Martsinkiavitchous – who faced bankruptcy a year later, according to the Courant.

Tyson bought the house in 1996 for $2.8 million, and listed it the following year for $22 million. After six years on the market – and a price cut to $4.1 million – the house was awarded to Tyson's second wife, Monica Turner, in their divorce settlement. 50 Cent bought it from her in September 2003.

how the hell you go from 2.8 mill to 22 mill? what the hell kind of upgrades that nucca put in?

DesireeNevermind said:

I imagine after the 400 mil he got for all those endorsements and the vitamin water, brova could at least have paid for one house...or

DesireeNevermind said:

To only put it on the market 4 years later.

SCNDLS said:

That's the kind of mansion for an old money mogul with a large multi-generational family dynasty. How are you going to be a single unmarried person with something that large? That's just an invitation to keep a lot of freeloading fools up in your house for no apparent reason. I say to hell with an entourage. Had I the dough, I would go the Mariah Carey route and for however many houses I had not nan one of 'em would have more than 4 bedrooms...just to discourage people from trying to spend the night keepin' up my overhead

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and if you wanna blow some dough like it aint nuthin' then be really generous and buy all them fools their own track homes. pookie gets his 150k crib, shenay and her kids get their 200K crib with pool, rashan get his apartment paid up for a couple years till he get a job, delicate and jermole jernard get their 200K crib with big back yard cuz they got a baby on the way and so does their pregnant dog. so on and so forth. you can take care of your homies and extended family without breaking the bank.

Why do you give a shit?

2freaky4church1 said:

Why are you here???

DesireeNevermind said:

Cain't. Breathe. Now.

2freaky4church1 said:

Why would you give a shit who gives a shit? It's harmless and light discussion about how ridiculous the celebrity real estate market is.

In case you weren't aware, in this forum there are dozens of other threads that may pique your interest, so you are quite welcome to hit the proverbial bricks if you feel this is not the thread for you.

Ottensen said:

haven't had a chance to watch this seasons shows yet, will have to catch the re-runs...that's what happens when you move and don't have cable or internet for a few weeks.

kimrachell said:

omg...its the worse. netword tv is so.....

DesireeNevermind said:

Huh?!

SCNDLS said:

Boyfriend and i talk about that all the time. He is a lazy artist. Jay bought a team, sold clothes, movies, he flipped his money. Wayne is HUGE right now and he is only known for music, he is not branching into ANYTHING. He's been up under Baby since he was 13. I have a feeling he leaves a lot up to him - recipe for disaster. I've heard interviews about how Baby handles his money and it is remedial at best.

DesireeNevermind said:

50, however seems to be more intelligent with his shit. He's quiet. But as far as other ventures, he is there.

Ottensen said:

The bitch is delusional.

daPrettyman said:

that's hood for regular television.

KatSkrizzle said:

bof of em

DesireeNevermind said: