Serena Williams: Childhood House Taken Due To Her Stepmother’s $600,000 Debt
The house where the famous tennis player began his career will be demolished.
Venus Williams’ childhood home will be seized from Serena Williams after her stepmother’s desperate attempt to file for bankruptcy failed.
Because her stepmom failed to repay $600,000 in arrears, the house where the 24-time Major winner first learnt to play tennis may be taken.
It is the most recent development in the court case involving Lakeisha Williams, Williams’ estranged stepmother. However, it now seems likely that she will forfeit ownership of the $1.4 million Palm Beach residence.
Leaked legal documents to The Sun reveal that the former stripper accumulated the debt when her trucking business failed and she blamed “fast food and frivolities” for her financial misfortune.
Her latest attempt to file for bankruptcy failed, therefore she will now have to sell it to pay her creditors. She had filed for bankruptcy several times to avoid paying the money.
Richard used to train his girls on the tennis court located in the grounds of the abandoned 10-acre property, which had four bedrooms. Following their 2017 separation, Lakeisha, 45, and Richard, the father of the Williams sisters, have been going through a contentious divorce for a number of months.
After they got married in 2009, Richard—who has had many strokes and is battling dementia—moved his third wife, Lakeisha, into his opulent home in a remote area of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
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After their breakup, Lakeisha continued to live in the house, but in 2021 the property went into foreclosure as a result of a lawsuit launched by Miami mortgage lender David Simon to reclaim the debt.
The $1.4 million Palm Beach estate will now be seized, and Simon and 20 other creditors will receive the lion’s share of the selling proceeds.
Whether Venus or Serena Williams will intervene to prevent their previous house from being sold to a different buyer is still up in the air.
With only one court in good shape, overgrown grass, rusty floodlights, and a ripped net, the tennis courts where they once perfected their trade are unrecognizable.
