Trent Reznor News

The New Orleans mansion that has been home to Nine Inch Nails maestro Trent Reznor) for the past 10 years has been sold for $1.8 million.

More than 100 people traipsed through Reznor's Garden District property at 2425 Coliseum Street, and eventually realtor Dorian Bennett had to screen potential buyers. "Some were dropping off love letters," he said.

Reznor put his home up for sale last September after splitting with longtime friend and manager John Malm. The two have sued and countersued each other for millions of dollars, drawing angry and vindictive words on both sides. The cases are pending in Federal Court in New York.

Reznor left Nothing Records, the label he and Malm co-founded, and moved to Los Angeles late last year, leaving his New Orleans home behind.

The two-story, 4,900-square-foot spread went on the market for $1,975,000. Originally built in 1850, it has four bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, an outdoor pool with sound system, two-car garage and meticulous renovations. Inside, the Gothic/Victorian decor had a medieval edge featuring plush satin draped room entranceways, velvet-upholstered chairs, green marble master bathroom and forest-green walls in the master bedroom.

Not exactly what you'd expect from a singer who covers himself in powder and mud onstage, screams and snarls soul-torturing lyrics, makes cutting-edge videos with S&M twists and laments about loneliness, betrayal and anger to pounding industrial music.

The buyer was a high-profile New Orleans resident whose identity was kept confidential on the sale papers by way of a trust, Bennett said. Although the purchase price was less than Reznor had been asking, the singer made about $500,000 on the sale.

Reznor was named one of America's 25 most influential people by Time Magazine in 1997. He's due to return to the music scene May 3 following a six-year hiatus with the album "With Teeth."