Followers have flocked to Tina Turner’s lavish $76 million mansion in Switzerland to pay their respects to the rock ‘n’ roll legend who died Wednesday on the age of 83.
Mourners have been seen leaving flowers and lighting candles on the gates of the Grammy winner’s property, positioned on Lake Zurich within the tranquil city of Küsnacht.
Turner first moved into the house, often called Villa Algonquin, together with her longtime love, Erwin Bach, in 1998.
As a consequence of strict Swiss legal guidelines prohibiting overseas homeownership, Turner and Bach rented the property till the singer turned a citizen of the nation in 2013.
Regardless of her famous person standing, Turner blended in with locals across the city, which has a inhabitants of round 12,000.
“When she was passing by, she was smiling, she might really feel that we have been taking a look at her, however was all the time very discreet,” one resident instructed Reuters.
One other Küsnacht resident additionally left flowers exterior Turner’s house and instructed Reuters: “She was a superb neighbor, and when she confirmed up on the town, she was very well-liked.”
Tennessee-born Turner first started courting Bach, a German music government, in 1986. The “Merely The Greatest” famous person subsequently began spending extra time in Europe, earlier than she ultimately moved to Switzerland with Bach in 1995.
Turner renounced her US citizenship to turned a Swiss citizen in 2013 — the identical yr that she and Bach tied the knot.
The couple then bought Villa Algonquin — the sprawling 59,427 sq. foot house that they has rented for the earlier 15 years.
The fairytale-style four-story house was a haven for Turner, who relished each the serenity and the privateness that life in Switzerland afforded her.
The New York Occasions journalist Amanda Hess visited Turner on the house in 2019, and described it as having “cartoon palace power” with” ivy snaking up the partitions, gardeners manicuring the shrubs, a life-size two-legged horse sculpture suspended from a domed ceiling, a framed rendering of Turner as an Egyptian queen, [and] a room full of gilded Louis XIV model sofas.”
An indication on the gates exterior the residence reads “Vor 12.00 Uhr nicht läuten, keine Lieferungen,” which interprets to “Don’t ring earlier than 12pm, no deliveries.”
Nevertheless, in accordance with Reuters, one mourner left a message alongside a purple rose which learn: “I feel it’s okay to indicate up early at this time. Thanks and goodbye Tina. You have been merely one of the best.”
