Houston faces foreclosure
NEWARK, NJ (AP) — Whitney Houston’s New Jersey mansion is slated to be sold at a sheriff’s sale because she is more than $1 million behind on the mortgage and taxes have not been paid this year, according to reports published Wednesday.The January 4 sale was scheduled on Tuesday by the Morris County Sheriff’s Office, the Daily Record of Parsippany reported. The service agent for Chevy Chase Bank, the mortgage holder, sued Houston in June.
Houston’s estate comprises two lots, and the sale would be of the lot assessed at $889,300. The adjacent lot is valued at more than $5.6 million, the Daily Record reported. Houston, 43, bought the properties in 1987 for $2.7 million.
Through a secretary, Houston publicist Nancy Seltzer told the newspaper the property was not in foreclosure.
A woman who answered the telephone at Seltzer’s office on Wednesday said Seltzer was travelling and could not be reached for comment.