Eminem

Eminem

Eminem's childhood home is up for auction with a $1 reserve 12 years since it was foreclosed for non-payment of taxes.

The rapper grew up in the bungalow - which was used as the cover art for his third album 'The Marshall Mathers LP' - in east Detroit, and it is one of more than twelve properties left abandoned in the area.

According to Detroit Free Press the home - now owned by the Michigan Land Bank - was bought by the 40-year-old star's mother Deborah Mathers in 1987 for $19,900 when she agreed to pay the owners $3,000 down and $220 a month.

Local property owner Rhonda Brown has expressed her wish for the musician to help restore the home to its former glory

The deed was passed to Eminem seven years later, and he immediately signed it over to Ann Investment - it since change hands before it was foreclosed for non-payment of taxes in 2001.

Local property owner Rhonda Brown has expressed her wish for the musician to help restore the home to its former glory.

She said: "It's sad to see things like this, especially when you made it successful.

"My little coins, I put together and try to give back. Why (can't) millionaires ... do that? One or two of us is not going to work.

"We need a load full of people who still have passion, still have love for Detroit."


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