Prince personally renovates rented mansion

Many people have dreamed of living the rock-star lifestyle.

It’s fun to have an endless amount of money to spend recklessly and live without any regard for the consequences.

Yes, partying like a rock star is fun, but it’s these very reasons that no one wants to rent their house out to a rock star.

Apparently Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer never learned this lesson, as he fatefully decided to lease his 10-bedroom, 11-bathroom Beverly Hills mansion to Prince for eight months.

You would think Boozer, who has made more than $150 million in his career, wouldn’t need the additional income of a lease. But according to the Chicago Tribune, Boozer said the money was too much to turn down.

“I was like, ‘I’m not leasing my house,’” Boozer said. “The amount of money he was willing to pay made me reconsider. And that’s how Prince rented my house out.”

The amount of money added up to $70,000 a month, or $560,000 total.

Evidently there was something about Boozer’s house that brought out Prince’s inner rock star, as he felt it necessary to give the NBA star’s home a complete makeover.

Prince painted the exterior of the house with purple stripes and the “Prince” symbol along with installing purple monogrammed carpeting in the master bedroom and adding plumbing for the use of water for beauty salon chairs.

But Boozer wasn’t too fond of the subtle decor changes.

Boozer’s former teammate at Duke, Jay Williams, said on “The Waddle & Silvy Show” on ESPN 1000 that Boozer called Williams in disbelief after seeing the changes to his house and originally not recognizing it.

“I remember him calling me, (saying) ‘Dude, you will never guess, I rode past my house like three times, I had no idea it was my house,’” Williams said.

Williams said Boozer was so livid, he wanted to confront Prince physically before the musician snapped off a $1 million check to fix what he had done.

There’s no doubt Prince lives in his own, strange, purple-tinted universe, but there must have been a purple downpour one day for him to think dramatically changing the house he was leasing was rational.

Prince is just the latest celebrity to show that bizarre decision making quickly can be forgotten when you have buckets of money to throw at the problem.

Although it’s definitely still fashionable to dream of partying like a rock star, make sure the party’s happening at the house down the street.

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