News - 13/06/2016

Paisley Park could become a Graceland-style museum for Prince

Paisley Park could become a Graceland-style museum for Prince

Bremer Trust, the trust company overseeing Prince's estate - likely with the backing of Prince's siblings - is exploring the idea to open the musician's residence in Paisley Park up as a tourist attraction that some have compared with Elvis Presley's Graceland. Long before dieing, Prince told close friends he wanted to turn his Paisley Park home and studio complex into a museum: Paisley Park, in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen, already has a large soundstage, two recording studios and the inner sanctum where he lived -- the basics for operating as a museum, performance space and recording venue.

Bremer Trust also received permission from a Carver County judge Wednesday to hire entertainment industry experts to help determine the best way to make money off Prince's intellectual property. According to a filing by an attorney for Carlin Williams, a Colorado prison inmate who claims to be Prince's son, a sealed affidavit by Bremer shows that the plans include hiring experts "on how to manage public tours of the grounds, facilities and buildings located at Paisley Park".

Shortly after Prince's death, his brother-in-law, Maurice Phillips, told the British tabloid "The Sun" that the family was planning to turn Paisley Park into a shrine to rival Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. Longtime Prince collaborator Sheila E told "Entertainment Tonight" that actually Prince was already working on making it a museum, gathering memorabilia from his career.

 

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