R Kelly faces foreclosure

Let's tour the mansion/

July 13, 2011 at 1:58PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In this June 13, 2008 file photo, R&B singer R. Kelly leaves the Cook County Criminal Court Building in Chicago. Kelly faces a $2.9 million foreclosure on his suburban Chicago mansion. Chicago Real Estate Daily reports Tuesday, July 12, 2011, that JPMorgan Chase Bank filed the foreclosure lawsuit last month in Cook County Circuit Court. The complaint states that Kelly hasn't made monthly mortgage payments since June of last year.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Somewhere MC Hammer is nodding with sadness:

Reuters fills in some details:

Meaning, taxes. Reuters also notes that unpaid interest is accruing at the rate of $251 per day.

It's possible he just doesn't want to pay for it anymore. Kelly put the mansion up for sale last June, and apparently stopped paying. Perhaps he thinks the act of offering it for sale is tantamount to being absolved of your responsibilities.

Pictures of the inside here; the Onion AV Club takes a tour, here.

It looks like if you've been shot out of a cannon, or live next door and have an incredible trampoline:

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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