Whitney Houston Auction
Designer clothes and tour gear belonging to Grammy winner Whitney Houston will be auctioned off next week to help cover unpaid storage fees.
Tuesday’s sale of more than 300 items is the latest difficulty for Houston, 43, who has been beset by financial issues and is divorcing singer Bobby Brown after 14 stormy years of marriage. Some of Brown’s music awards will be auctioned, along with grand pianos, drum kits and a vintage barber chair.
The gear up for auction has been stored since a 1999 world tour, said Jeffrey Campisi, a lawyer for Speed of Sound, a company that has been tending to the equipment.
Campisi could not estimate what the auction might bring, but any excess money will go to Nippy, he said.
Houston also avoided a sheriff’s sale of her New Jersey mansion after falling more than $1 million (€760,000) behind on the mortgage and accumulating $83,000 (€62,731) in unpaid taxes. A deal has been reached on the mortgage, and the taxes on the 10-acre (4-hectare) estate have been paid, Morris County authorities said.
Houston has been living in Los Angeles, working on an album. Best of luck Whitney!
Comments
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