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Karen Read sells Mansfield home for $810,000
The final sale price was tens of thousands of dollars less than the $849,000 Read sought when she listed the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home in July.
Awaiting retrial in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, Karen Read has sold her Mansfield home for $810,000.
The final sale price was tens of thousands of dollars less than the $849,000 Read sought when she listed the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home in July, property records show.
“Ms. Read has not been living in Mansfield since last year and now wishes for another family to enjoy the property she spent many years enhancing,” Richard Rocci of RE/Max Platinum told Boston.com at the time.
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A married couple purchased the 2,516-square-foot Gilbert Street home, according to a Nov. 13 deed filed with the Northern Bristol County Registry of Deeds. MassLive first reported the sale.
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Read purchased the Garrison Colonial — located a short distance from the MBTA commuter rail and highway — in 2017 and “put a lot of time and money into it,” Rocci told Boston.com in July. However, Read’s prolonged legal battle has taken a financial toll; according to an extensive Vanity Fair profile last month, the 44-year-old still owes her lawyers more than $5 million in deferred fees and is living off of what’s left of her 401(k) after losing her jobs at Fidelity Investments and Bentley University.
Property records show Read took out two $200,000 mortgages on the Mansfield property in September and basically used the house as collateral to pay her lawyers.
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Read is accused of deliberately and drunkenly backing her SUV into O’Keefe after a night of bar-hopping in Canton on Jan. 29, 2022. While prosecutors allege Read left O’Keefe to die in a snowstorm, her lawyers maintain she was framed in a widespread law enforcement coverup.
Read’s first trial resulted in a hung jury in July, and she’s due to stand trial again next year.
The state’s Supreme Judicial Court is weighing Read’s appeal to drop two of her charges — second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident — on the grounds that multiple jurors claim the jury internally agreed to acquit her on both counts. Read is also facing a wrongful death lawsuit O’Keefe’s family filed in Plymouth Superior Court, though parts of the civil matter remain on hold until her criminal case is resolved.
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