Metro Detroit has it’s own celebrity foreclosure. It might not attract national media attention like Ed McMahon, but then we already have Mayor Kilpatrick garnering the spotlight from late night talk show comedians, so what more could we want?
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is doing a short sale on her home. Personally, I don’t think this would even be newsworthy if she didn’t happen to be heading up the case against Kwame Kilpatrick. Perhaps the Mayor’s office slipped this tidbit to the Freep so that they would take the heat off of Kwame for a day or two, and to shake up Worthy just a bit.
I have no information about Kim Worthy’s foreclosure. Frankly, I think I would be hard pressed to find a neighborhood in Southeast Michigan right now that has not been touched by foreclosure and short-sales. We’ve seen multi-million dollar homes go through foreclosure. In fact, this summer we listed and sold a foreclosure in Birmingham that had been listed for $2,000,000 at one point.
Worthy has a good job. She makes over $150k a year. Yet something happened that is not allowing her to pay her bills. No judgment from me–I am sure there is a good reason. Medical bills and messy divorces often leave people in financial dire straits these days.
Ask anyone who has been through the short sale process as a buyer or as a seller, and they will tell you it is painful. Worthy is losing her home. Her credit is messed up. It will be messed up for a while. On top of that, she is in the midst of preparing for THE CASE of her career. I don’t envy her right now.
I wish her the best and hope she can focus on making sure that she represents the people well in the case against Kwame Kilpatrick.
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Written by Maureen Francis
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