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A manor owned by Aretha Franklin is sold for $ 300,000.(Photo: JEFF HAYNES, AFP / Getty Images)

DETROIT (AP) – A historic Detroit mansion belonging to a late song legend Aretha Franklin has been sold.

The Detroit News reports that, according to public reports, the 520-square-meter brick house adjacent to the Detroit Golf Club raised $ 300,000 at a sale last month. It was built in 1927.

The newspaper reports that Franklin had bought the house in 1993, but had almost lost it in 2008 due to unpaid property taxes.

Franklin's personal representative, Sabrina Garrett-Owens, said "there are no other properties in Detroit" belonging to the Queen of Souls.

His colonial-style home on the outskirts of Detroit's Bloomfield suburbs is 385 square meters (385 square meters) and still costs $ 800,000.

Franklin died of pancreatic cancer in August in his apartment on the Detroit River. She was 76 years old.

More: Aretha Franklin, 'Queen of Soul' who transformed American music, dies at the age of 76.

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