Monday, February 10, 2014

Boss!: Rapper Rick Ross Shells Out $5.8M For Evander Holyfield’s Estate


Rapper Rick Ross is set to buy the Fayette County estate previously owned by boxing champ Evander Holyfield. Holyfield lost the 235-acre estate in 2012 to foreclosure.
According to the listing, the massive estate sits on nearly 150 acres of land, and is the largest single family home in Georgia at 50,000 square feet.
Rap mogul Rick Ross just scooped up the Evander Holyfield Estate in Fayette, Ga., for $5.879 million.
The property has a 350,000 gallon pool, one of the largest private pools in the United States!
There is a a horse stable and a baseball field located right on the property.The mansion boasts a 135-seat movie theater.The home also has a dining room large enough to seat 100 guests.According to reports, Rick Ross has been looking to buy this property for years. The estate features 12 bedrooms, 21 bathrooms, palatial formal and informal spaces.The estate is the largest single family home in Georgia at nearly 50,000 sqft on almost 105 acres.The property, which also includes 4000-sq ft second home and seven-stall barn, has been featured on the Lifetime TV show, Drop Dead Diva.According to the listing, the home features 109 rooms. 

The grounds present a sportsman’s paradise, with a bowling alley, handball court, softball field, tennis court, seven-stall horse barn and what is pitched as one of the country’s most expansive private swimming pools.

Inside the home, there is a a bowling alley, and of course, a boxing gym.Its address leaves no doubt about the identity of its longtime owner and resident: 794 Evander Holyfield Highway.Encumbered with debt, largely from unpaid back taxes, Holyfield involuntarily moved out of the estate that he claimed once cost him $1 million a year to maintain.
The auction company has promoted it as Georgia’s largest single-family home, assigning it an elegant-sounding moniker: Villa Vittoriosa.The movie mogul Tyler Perry has filmed his films here over the years.There is sufficient room on the premises for a second home, with a mere 4,000 square feet, where one of Holyfield’s former wives lived after she and Holyfield divorced.The mansion hit the auction block in November, but that sale fell through. Then, in February 2013, one of the rappers on Ross’ music label posted a picture on Instagram of the compound’s soon-to-be new owner.


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