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50 Cent sells opulent Connecticut mansion after years on the market

You could say the mansion got sold for pennies on the dollar of the initial asking offer.
Credit: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP
FILE - This June 28, 2018 file photo shows 50 Cent at the "Power" Season 5 world premiere in New York.

Rapper 50 Cent's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Connecticut that first went on the market 12 years ago has finally sold at a fraction of the original asking price.

Jennifer Leahy, an agent at Douglas Elliman in Greenwich, tells the Hartford Courant the 21-bedroom. 25-bathroom home in Farmington was sold for $2.9 million.

The sale was first reported by The Wall Street Journal .

The rapper, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, asked $18.5 million for the 17-acre estate in 2007. Jackson purchased the mansion in 2004 from boxer Mike Tyson for $4.1 million, and then sank millions into it for renovations.

The home also has an indoor pool, a gym, racquetball courts and a dance room.

Leahy did not disclose the buyer.

Credit: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP
FILE - This June 28, 2018 file photo shows 50 Cent at the "Power" Season 5 world premiere in New York.

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