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Carlos Boozer Used To Be Prince's Landlord

11:05 a.m. · March 31, 2011 · by Andrew Winistorfer

Here's the craziest music-related story going around in the last day, and improbably, it features Bulls forward Carlos Boozer: Apparently, a few years ago, Boozer rented his Beverly Hills mansion to Prince, who swiftly changed a lot of stuff in the house. To the point where Boozer didn't recognize it. Here's what Boozer's friend Jay Williams said about it:

"Booz told me how he had this massive house ... blue fountain waves kind of came down streaming water that led to the front door and all this great stuff," Williams said on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "And I remember him calling me, 'Dude, you will never guess, I rode past my house like three times, I had no idea it was my house.'

 

"Supposedly, Prince changed the front gate to the Prince sign, he changed the master bedroom to a hair salon, he changed the streaming blue waters that led to the front door to purple water, he knocked out walls, he changed the molding on top of the ceiling. Booz was livid. So pissed off, so angry ... He put his Purple Rain stamp on it ... Booz was like, 'I was getting ready to go over there and beat this little man down.' And dude was just like 'Here, Boozer, here is a little check for about a million, it'll take care of everything, get it back the way you want it.' And Booz was like , 'This little man is cool as hell.'"

Classic. Prince just gave Boozer a million bucks to take the "Purple Rain stamp" off of it. Just the best. Boozer can't really talk about it, due to some agreement with Prince, but here's what he said to ESPN:

"We had a disclosure thing. We agreed not to speak about the details of our deal, so I don't want to cross that bridge," Boozer said, before adding with a smile, "He knows how to live. He lives a good life. I'll put it that way."

 

Boozer, who said he met with Prince before he moved into Boozer's place, had no problems with the adjustments.

 

"He put it back the way it was before he moved out," Boozer said. "He did some very specific things that were built for him and his lifestyle, which is very different from mine. Needless to say, I sold the house, made a great profit and moved to Miami."

 

Boozer admitted that he is a fan of some of Prince's work, but he may not be in attendance for a concert any time soon.

 

"I've listened to some of his music," Boozer said. "Not a big fan of some of his concerts ... [That's] not really my thing, but some of his music his pretty hot, though."

Oh man, this story is the funniest. What can even top this this month? [ESPN]