A dog is selling Madonna’s former mansion

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published 22 November 2021

A Florida mansion once owned by Madonna is back on the market and the seller is a dog. The pop star sold the waterfront property to the trust of a German Shepherd named Gunther VI in 2000, and now the dog’s managers are offloading the property. The Miami pad is on the market with an asking price of $31.75m (£23.6m) – considerably above the $7.5m (£5.6m) the pop star asked for the place 21 years ago.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.

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