Prince Bought the Purple Rain House Before His Death

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To the naked eye of someone who isn't a die-hard Prince fan, the little white house on the market last year was a very nondescript house at first glance. But it had history.

Last summer the "fixer-upper" went up for sale, but what many people didn't realize was that it was the house used in the movie Purple Rain. The house was listed for a mere $110,000, and, of course, it was apropos that Prince snatched up the house to add to his collection of Minneapolis properties.

According to Hennepin-County, Minn., property records, the owner listed for the house is NPG Music Publishing, Prince's company.

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In total, Prince owned over 200 acres and several properties in and around Chanhassen, Minn., and many of those places indicate that he was a generous person to his family, since they are where some of them lived.