Guess What NBA Player Was Once Prince's Landlord
By Ryan Mayer
Prince, the pop music icon, passed away today at the age of 57. With the passing of a luminary figure such as Prince comes plenty of reminiscing on some of the more interesting stories that have come out through the years. One particular story caught my eye today and it comes from the Chicago Tribune back in 2011, about the time Carlos Boozer became Prince's landlord.
According to the Tribune, the story goes that Boozer had just bought a house in West Hollywood in 2004. The former Bulls forward told the paper that he then got a call from his realtor telling him that someone wanted to rent the house. From the story:
"My realtor was like, 'Yo, there's this guy who wants to rent your house. He saw it before you bought it,'" Boozer recalled of the 2004 transaction. "I was like, 'I'm not leasing my house. I've never done that.'
"The amount of money he was willing to pay made me reconsider. And that's how Prince rented my house out."
Prince, of course, was not your typical tenant, which is something that Boozer found out the hard way when the musician tried to put his own personal touch on the property.
"He made it purple," Boozer said. "He wanted to put his personal touch on it because he wanted to make it feel like home. I was kind of worried about that when I saw the house. But Prince was great. I had a conversation with him. He changed everything back the way it was before he moved out.
"He did some very specific things that were built for him and his lifestyle, which is very different than mine."
Not surprisingly, Prince had decided to paint the exterior of the house with purple stripes, the prince symbol, and 3121--an allusion to one of his albums. In case you were wondering, media outlets at the time reported that Prince paid $70,000 per month in rent for the 10 bedroom, 11 bathroom home.
