Madonna Childhood Home for Auction

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08-24-2001
Madonna Childhood Home for Auction

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- As Madonna prepares for a pair of weekend performances in the Detroit area, her childhood home is up for auction.

The four-bedroom house Madonna lived in from the sixth grade until she attended the University of Michigan has come up for auction on the Internet.

The eBay auction site lists the 1960s-era colonial with red brick on the bottom and white aluminum siding on the second story for a minimum bid of $324,000. The Rochester Hills house is listed in Michigan Real Estate as ``Madonna's Childhood Home.''

Ted Andres of Rochester Hills, a real estate investor who bought the house about a month ago from Madonna's father, Silvio ``Tony'' Ciccone, and his wife, Joan Ciccone, is the seller. The Ciccones moved to the Traverse City area, where they run a winery.

By Thursday night, one bid had come in on the 2,739-square-foot home, from a person with the online name ``Bad White Rapper,'' the Detroit Free Press reported. That person withdrew the bid Thursday evening, and there were no bids as of Friday morning.

The number of hits on pictures of the home jumped from a sluggish 1,100 after two days to 1,800 in a two-hour span Thursday evening.

Bidding was scheduled to end Sept. 20.

Madonna brings her ``Drowned World Tour'' to the Palace of Auburn Hills Saturday and Sunday night. The second performance will be televised live on HBO.

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