By: Lynn Green
Many people don’t like Simon from American Idol. I admire him because his honestly is equal to mine. He tells it like it is.
A Hicktowner tipped me off that he helped Fantasia save her home. I did a little search and looks like that may be a true story. Sometimes the National Enquirer gets it wrong…but sometimes they are right:
Former American Idol star Fantasia Barrino has music mogul Simon Cowell to thank for saving her North Carolina home from foreclosure – after he reportedly helped to pay off some of her debts.
The singer, who was crowned the winner of Cowell’s U.S. TV talent show in 2004, purchased the six-bedroom house in Charlotte in March 2007 for $1.3 million
But she ran into financial difficulty and failed to keep up with repayments on the property.
The mansion was due to be auctioned off on 12 January by the local Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office, but the sale was called off at the last minute after Barrino reached a deal with financiers.
And, according to the National Enquirer, it was Cowell who stepped in to provide a short-term solution to Barrino’s money problems.
A source tells the tabloid, “Very quietly, Simon promised to help Fantasia take care of some of the back payments she owed so the house wouldn’t go on the block.
Now someone needs to counsel her about her finances and about the importance of NOT living beyond her means. Her money is “new money” so she need not live in a mansion. Why not simply buy a very nice home in a very nice neighborhood? And during the counseling, someone needs to help her with her image. That clown hair screams “ghetto fabulous”.
I blogged about Fantasia in the past HERE
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It’s nice that he helped her, but I too hope she gets some financial counseling and learns to manage her money more wisely.
Hey Lynn,
I sent you this article and a couple of others from that “source.”
Simon Cowell is well known for his nasty demeanor. This gesture illustrates that even the nastiest of people sometimes have some good down in them.
Thanks, Dee. I was not sure who had sent me the article.
Large sums of money can magnify an existing character problem.
The rags to riches and back to rags is a popular theme for many AA entertainers and athletes. The pressure from relatives, trying to maintain an image of fame and wealth plus an unreal schedule because you have to keep all that stuff would be mind boggling. Then, add she had literacy challenges. It reminds me of situations when people hit the lottery with no skills on how to handle large sums of money. They usually end up in worse shape than when they started.
Hope she learned her lesson and finds a good mentor.
I read earlier today that she plans on going back to school to get her high school diploma. I wish her all the best.
Energize, I was thinking along the same lines–with the schedule she must have I would think she doesn’t have much time to spend in Charlotte. So like Mama Lynn said why not just get a “nice” place and call it a day.
I heard Taffi Dollar(yes I listened long enough to hear)say once that people will pray for the mansion and furnish it with JCPenny curtains(which offended me cause I shop at Penny’s)
but I understood her point
and Creflo(I know yall don’t like him but I used to watch him sometimes) talked about folk wanting the Bentley or mansion and not considering the expense of maintaining such items–he made the example that the tag for his Bentley was $3,000.
The Word says if a man wants to build a house he needs to first “count up the cost”.
I hope it works out for her, seems like since she’s doing The Color Purple that Ms Winfrey would have schooled her alittle, guess she’s got too much going on herself.