Aretha Franklin in danger of losing her home
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Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin could lose her home – over a missed $445 tax payment.
The singer reportedly now owes a total of $19,192 in back taxes on her Detroit mansion from 2005-2007.
Franklin says an attorney’s mistake caused her $700,000 mansion to slip into foreclosure over $445 in 2005 taxes and late fees.
Franklin told the Detroit Free Press newspapers that 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.
