The German newspaper on the Baleares, Mallorca Zeitung, reports that retired tennis player, Boris Becker, is going to have to sell his villa close to the Nature Park in Artà in Palma because of debts. Unpaid facturas for five years gardening and looking after the villa have reached 276,000 € plus IVA. German paper, Bild, ran a story last summer ‘The Mansion of Horrors’ which said that Becker had been trying to get rid of the property for five years, and another magazine, Bunte, said he wants between 15 and 18 million. He paid 1.5 million € for the property in 1997 according to reports. El País reports the Palma lawyer De la Mata says that Becker also owes more than 490,000 € to local builders who carried reforms to the villa, and years earlier the authorities obliged Becker to demolish some buildings to meet the regulations as the built area was three times that permitted by law. In 2002 he was found guilty of tax evasion at a court in Munich and given a two year prison sentence. He didn’t go to prison but he had to pay a fine of about half a million €.
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