Detroit Man Builds Liberace-inspired Home, then Torches It

This home is flaming! So flamboyant.

I’d do the same thing.

Probably overspent on all that fabulous decor and made a go for an insurance payout to get out of debt and start again with animal prints and gold rococo embellishments.

He’s not how I pictured him. And what the hey dude, is that a Neanderthal next to him with that forehead ridge?

Meth?

If you read the article it says he’s been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Sad story.

He doesn't look good. It could be Alzheimer's - it could also be meth. Now where the hell is he going to go?

Looks like the house wasn't completely destroyed - but internal smoke damage can be horrible and not seen from the outside.

Ugh - the last years of our lives is such a crapshoot. I hate the thought of it.

R5 the black guy in the suit is his attorney.

The person in question is the grizzled old queen next to him in the blue t-shirt.

R9 Don't you love how people can look at a photograph showing a creepy old man in a prison jumpsuit, standing next to a Black guy in a suit, and they will STILL assume the Black guy is the criminal?

Liberace? More like Mr. Michelle Bachman.

R9 - to be fair - unless you open the image - you don't really see the white guy - the image is primarily the black attorney.

That was my first reaction too - then I opened the article up.

Poor Ronald Nassar doesn't look all there.

I wouldn't want to live there, but I kind of liked it. At least he had a vision.

What the hell else are you supposed to do with a "Liberace-inspired Home"?

I don't suppose the bitch considered a reverse mortgage?

R16 Who is selling those on daytime TV these days? Tom Bosley?

Tom Selleck?

R18 The stud didn't get enough from Blue Bloods and Magnum?

R16 - he did take a 300,000 reverse mortgage but I believe he's in default and he can't sell it.

He's in a pickle - now it's damaged and he won't have anywhere to live - and no claim to it at all.

There are good reasons to leave Detroit.

A black man obsessed with Liberace? That’s a new one. Next, you’ll tell me he’s straight.