You have probably read and heard a lot of stories about Prince today, but this is one of my favorites because did you ever think Prince and Carlos Boozer would share a history together?
The premise of the story is simple, Prince wanted to rent Boozer’s mansion. Boozer was hesitant at fight, but check out what happened next.
“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.”
Multiple media outlets reported Prince paid $70,000 per month for the 10-bedroom, 11-bath home. The same reports said attorneys for Boozer filed suit against Prince/MPG Music for violating the eight-month lease because of “painting the exterior with purple striping, ‘prince’ symbol, and numbers 3121 (one of Prince’s albums).”
The suit also cited a purple monogrammed carpet was installed in the master bedroom and plumbing “for water transfer for beauty salon chairs” was added.
The part that Boozer left out was that he was about to beat up Prince for messing up his mansion, but Prince was too smooth for that.
Here is how Jay Williams describes the altercation.
Booz was livid. So pissed off, so angry … He put his Purple Rain stamp on it … Booz was like, ‘I was getting ready to go over there and beat this little man down.’ And dude was just like ‘Here, Boozer, here is a little check for about a million, it’ll take care of everything, get it back the way you want it.’ And Booz was like , ‘This little man is cool as hell.'”
I think we can all agree the little man was cool as hell.
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