Family Selling Jenni Rivera Home Against Her Wishes

Despite Jenni Rivera’s wishes for her parents and children to take over her mansion, her sister will soon put the iconic singer’s home up for sale, Mexican entertainment magazine TV y Novelas is reporting.

The 9,527-square-foot home, seven bedroom, 11 bathroom home, which Rivera bought in 2008, will hit the market at $3.3 million, the same price “La Diva de la Banda” paid for the home almost for years ago. Rivera’s old home sits on 4 plush acres, with a large grassy lawn, pool and entertainment patio, including a spa and waterfall, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Rivera never planned on the her home leaving the family, and wanted her sister Rosie, whom she left I charge of her estate, which includes her multi-million company Jenni Enterprises, but now Rosie thinks the home will be too expensive to maintain and wants to sell it, according to TV y Novelas. Real estate agent Ben Lee, who sold the late star the home in 2008, told Fox News Latino that Rivera loved the home.

“I know she wanted to renovate the house and I believe she renovated it extensively,” said Lee of Coldwell Banker/Ben Lee Properties. “It was a beautiful setting. [It] was private,” he added. “[It was] gated with lots of land, but it was not finished. She put money into it.”

Lee said Rivera’s mansion isn’t on the market yet. Rivera’s children are reportedly broken hearted with the news that their aunt wants to sell their mother’s home, TV y Novelas said. However, it may be too late for anyone to intervene, Rivera’s sister is already taking the necessary steps to put the mansion on the market. Lee said he will always remember Rivera for her “super down to earth” attitude and said he enjoyed working with her. “I was very sad,” Lee said.

“She was a very nice person. It was a very pleasant and easy transaction to deal with.” Rivera, four of her staff, and two pilots were killed when the small private Learjet plummeted from 28,000 feet and crashed into a mountainous area 9,000 feet above sea level, according to Mexico's transportation secretary.

The jet was flying them from the northern Mexican city of Monterrey to the central city of Toluca. According to CNN, the cause of the crash is under investigation. The accident report will not be ready for nine months to a year, the secretary of communications and transportation said.

The DEA recently announced that it is currently investigating Starwood Management, the company that owns the luxury jet that crashed and killed Rivera and her crew. The agency seized two of its planes earlier this year as part of the ongoing probe, reported The Huffington Post."The DEA has subpoenaed all the company's records, including any correspondence it has had with a former Tijuana mayor who U.S. law enforcement officials have long suspected has ties to organized crime," the Post noted.

The man who runs the business, 50-year-old Christian Esquino "has a long and checkered legal past," but he told the Associated Press he's been dogged by the DEA since the 1980s after he sold a plane in Florida to a prominent drug trafficker who eventually used the craft as part of a huge smuggling operation.

"Rivera was well-established as a musical powerhouse with her Spanish-language performances of regional Mexican corridos, or ballads," noted USA Today following her death. "For fans, the [Diva de la Banda] nickname captured her powerful voice and the personal strength many admired," said the newspaper.

After dominating Latin charts for years, many saw Rivera as poised to take on the English-language market. Rivera sold 15 million records, according to Billboard, and recently won two Billboard Music Awards, including favorite Mexican music female artist. The Banda Music singer was nominated for various Latin Grammy Awards in 2002, 2008 and 2011. In October, People en Español named her to its list of the 25 most powerful women.