The little white house where 'The Kid' lived in the 1984 classic Purple Rain was secretly bought by the man who made the humble house a local landmark. Music legend Prince purchased the three-bedroom Minnesota home for $117,000 in cash last August - just eight months before his death, the StarTribune reports. Online records show that the fixer-upper was purchased for the amount in August. The late icon paid more than the $110,000 asking price "sight unseen" for the house at 3420 Snelling Ave. in the city's Longfellow neighborhood - but never lived in the house and never made the required renovations to the century-old residence,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
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