Late rapper Juice WRLD’s mother pays $8.3 million for Burr Ridge home, land

The combined purchase price is the most anyone on record has paid for a Burr Ridge home, topping the previous record, set in 2007, by $2.1 million.

Wallace could not be reached for comment. Beth Kaim, her agent at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices American Heritage, declined to comment, as did Katherine Karvelas, the @properties Christie’s International Real Estate agent who represented the sellers. 

The house has a Hamptons-inspired wood and stone exterior, six bedrooms and seven full baths and, according to the listing, hand-carved marble fireplaces, an indoor basketball court, a built-in saltwater aquarium, several crystal chandeliers and an outdoor waterfall.

Juice WRLD, who was born in Chicago and grew up in Calumet Park and Homewood, began uploading his tracks to Soundcloud in 2015 and by 2017 had a record contract with Grade A Productions and Interscope Records. His biggest hits during his lifetime were 2018’s “Lucid Dreams,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 2019’s “Bandit,” which peaked at No. 10.

Juice WRLD died in December 2019 after having a seizure at Midway International Airport. It was six days after his 21st birthday. The musician was later reported to have accidentally overdosed on oxycodone.

In an obituary, the New York Times described him as a “sweet-voiced singing rapper” whose “sharp, catchy songs, often freestyled in only a few takes, combined melodic hip-hop with the heavy-hearted angst and nasal hooks of emo.”

He left an estate with a value estimated at more than $3.3 million. It included a Miami condo and a large collection of watches. Wallace, who at the outset of Juice WRLD’s career was his manager, got control of his estate. His father was not in his life, and he had no wife or children.

In 2020, three songs by other musicians that featured Juice WRLD hit the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. His estate reportedly made $15 million in the first year after his death. 

In November 2019, a few weeks before the rapper died, his mother sold her house in Homewood for $250,000, according to Cook County records. At the time of his death, Juice WRLD was reportedly renting a house in Encino, Calif., for more than $22,000 a month.

In January, Wallace said on the Tamron Hall talk show that she was not aware of her son’s addictive self-medicating until it was too late to save him, and that she hoped her experience would be instructive for other parents. 

Wallace launched a website called Live Free 999 as a resource for parents of children with mental health struggles.