Posted on 12/13/2023 7:31:55 PM PST by DoodleBob
The estate of the late Gary Rossington, the last surviving founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd who passed away in March, is on the market for $12 million.
Listed by Cynthia Chandlee of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, the property is located in Milton, Georgia, approximately 30 miles north of Atlanta, sitting on 80 acres of land.
According to the home’s listing, the property features a main and guest house, two barns and a private lake complete with two boat docks.
The main house is 7,516 square feet, with five bedrooms and five and one-half baths, a formal dining room, study, eat-in kitchen and breakfast nook, and entertaining space with a wet bar, game/billiard area and fireplace.
The primary bedroom is on the main floor, with a sitting area, dual vanities and a personal grooming area with a separate walk-in shower and bathtub, with the remaining bedrooms upstairs.
In addition to the lake, the home boasts a built-in pool. (Media Solutions | Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty / Fox News)
Rossington died at age 71 in March. Though his cause of death has yet to be revealed, the musician had an emergency heart procedure in 2019 and a history of heart issues.
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Earned his money back when you could get rich selling records. Now it is all about touring and tying music to commercials, (product placement). He apparently, smartly, hung on to his money.
He didn’t join the band until 1975. Rossington was an original member.
Between the car crash and the plane crash and all the chemicals, he’s lucky to have made it to 71.
I’m from Jacksonville. Believe me, I know.
Unless you find a fan, you’ll never recoup it.
There are all sorts of famous homes in CA and elsewhere that don’t draw that.
The stuff is largely meaningless.
I know someone who is a Beatles fan that bought a song John Lennon had written in his own hand. It went for some goofy price outbidding Michael Jackson. On his way home, he got a call from a representative of Michael Jackson offering substantially more. He declined. It ended up in this guy’s closet somewhere. I don’t get the point.
One of Rossington’s guitars or something like that, yeah, it makes sense. Other stuff, nah.
I’m not saying I’d buy it.
I don’t even know if Rossington’s writers royalties are meaningful. He co-wrote one biggie, Sweet Home Alabama. Aside from Give Me Back My Bullets and What’s Your Name (and maybe Simple Man), the rest are largely deep cuts.
https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/4939
All you need is one fan with a lotta dough. And Skynyrd wasn’t some band with a few hits.
$12MM? I doubt it. $8MM? Definitely.
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