A luxury mansion
co-owned by a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and his fourth
wife, Jennifer Douglas, in the posh neighbourhood of Potomac, Maryland,
United States, has been auctioned.
The
property gained international notoriety in 2005 after it was searched
by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in connection with a
bribery scandal involving disgraced former U.S. Congressman, William
Jefferson.
The seven-bedroom cream-coloured single family
brick house on 9731 Sorrel Ave, Potomac, Maryland, was originally listed
for $3.25 million on Zillow and other online real estate websites on
January 25, 2018 but was eventually sold for a pending offer of $2.95
million on February 26, 2018 after an online auction.
Sources
with knowledge of the state of the mansion but who requested not to be
named because they did not want to be publicly associated with this
story, said the Atikus had not lived in the mansion since Mr. Abubakar
left office as vice president in 2007. For some years, but the place was
later locked up, and had remained unoccupied. Tax records from the
Montgomery County, Washington DC, show that Ms. Douglas consistently
paid property taxes on the mansion from 1999 to 2016. She, however, is
in default of $27,913.77 being that for 2017.
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