A nightclub, seven kitchens and a price history worth its own documentary. Some houses are bought to be lived in. Others seem to exist mainly to be handed from one larger-than-life owner to the next, picking up a nightclub here and a recording studio there. In Farmington, Connecticut, roughly halfway between Boston and New York, sits a 51,000-square-foot example of the second kind.
The estate at 50 Poplar Hill Drive has been listed for $9.9 million since August 2025, and as of mid-September, Patch reported it was still on the market. That figure is more than three times what Mike Tyson paid for the property in 1996, and the road between those two numbers runs through one of the strangest price histories in American celebrity real estate.
The Tyson Years
The house was built in 1985 for Benjamin Sisti, founder of Colonial Realty, at a reported cost of $2.3 million, according to Complex. After Sisti’s financial downfall it changed hands several times, until Tyson bought it for about $3 million in 1996. The boxer made it entirely his own, adding a shooting range, a basketball court and a nightclub he named Club TKO, complete with a DJ booth and a bar.
His ownership ended with his divorce. Complex reports that the estate went to his ex-wife, Monica Turner, who sold it in 2003 to 50 Cent for $4.1 million.
The 50 Cent Era
The rapper spent around $6 million on upgrades, per Complex, adding a grotto, an infinity pool and a theater, and he recorded tracks for his 2005 album The Massacre in the home studio. Then came the hard part. He first listed the estate in 2007 at $18.5 million, and it did not sell. Years of price cuts followed, stretching through his 2015 bankruptcy filing, until he finally let it go in 2019 for $2.9 million, an 84 percent drop from his original ask.
The buyers were Florida businessman Casey Askar and his wife, Shera, parents of seven. They put more than $3 million into renovations, adding a cigar lounge, a spa with a steam room and red-light therapy, a hair salon and a commercial kitchen with a pizza oven. “Some of our best family time has been spent there,” Casey Askar said, according to Complex. With their children getting older, they are now ready to move on.
What $9.9 Million Buys Now
Today the house counts 19 bedrooms, 26 full bathrooms and 14 half baths across 17.59 acres. There are seven kitchens, a casino, indoor and outdoor pools, sports courts, a movie theater, a green-screen room and a pond with its own dock. The primary bedroom alone measures nearly 1,200 square feet, per Patch. The listing is held by Sherry Borgeson of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties.
The asking price is the real plot twist. At $9.9 million, it is nearly double Hartford County’s record residential sale of $5 million, set in 2011, in an area where the median home sells for just under $400,000. Add up what Tyson paid, what 50 Cent paid and what 50 Cent eventually accepted, and you land at $10 million. The Askars are asking for almost exactly the sum of the house’s last three price tags.
Whether a buyer agrees is the next chapter. History suggests this house has never been in a hurry, and three decades after Tyson first opened Club TKO, it still knows how to make an entrance.