Adele sabotages sale of owner of £6m 'haunted' home
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Adele has been accused of sabotaging the sale of Lock House with comments she made during a TV interview in 2012.
Adele has been accused of sabotaging the sale of a £6m mansion where she used to live from its owners, who claim she once said it was haunted.
The award-winning singer rented the Grade II listed Lock House in Partridge Green, West Sussex, in 2012.
The owner has applied for planning permission to convert the property from a single dwelling into three residential units and to convert an existing garage and flat into a detached cottage.
In the submission, the owner said comments made by Adele about the 10-bedroom house being haunted during an interview had hindered the sales process.
"The first tenant, Adele, stayed for six months and destroyed the property, saying it was haunted," he said. "That comment negatively impacted future marketing efforts and continues to impact the reputation of the property to this day."
"Goosebumps"
Discussing Lock House in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS when she lived in the property, Adele said, "It's all very creepy, really.
'I'm not just wandering around here.' It's confusing."
Adele did not use the word "haunted" during the interview.
After the singer left the property, it was put up for sale again, but received no offers.
It was then leased to a tenant who wanted to use the property to run a custom-made clothing business. But it was later discovered that the tenant operated a residential shelter with 11 guest rooms and a fitness camp, according to the application.
According to the application, the owner had been actively trying to sell the property for about 14 years.
The only offer ever received was in August 2020, but the prospective buyer backed out after learning of the property's alleged haunted state, he added.
Lock House was originally built around 1909 before undergoing a major reconstruction program in the 1940s.
In 1971, it was divided and auctioned off into 26 separate lots. But it was later acquired by the church and became the Visitation Monastery.
The current owner bought Lock House in 2003 from a property dealer, who had previously purchased it after the monastery moved to Albourne.
According to its current listing, Lock House and its 32-acre estate include 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court, a helipad and a cinema.
Selling for £5,995,000.