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Rap megastar Drake was not spared by Tuesday’s downpour as his $100-million Toronto mansion was flooded with ankle-deep murky water.
The rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Graham, took to Instagram to show his 50,000-sq-ft mansion known as The Embassy awash with muddy light brown water with the caption: “This better be espresso martini.” The footage shows an unnamed man attempting to hold a large glass door shut as water pours into what appears to be a dressing room or powder room.
Drake is also shown barefoot and in shorts, holding a broom sloshing through the floodwaters as the camera glimpses his also flooded hallway.
Thus far, it is unknown how extensive the damage is or how much of the water has been cleared.
The art-deco-themed mansion in Toronto’s wealthy Bridle Path neighbourhood also features an NBA-regulation indoor basketball court and a great room with a ceiling 44 feet high.
Drake has told Architectural Digest that the mansion had to be sturdy for at least 100 years. “It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong.” It seems to have been put to its first real test since fans were granted a look inside back in 2020.
Drake has yet to provide any details on how things are faring at The Embassy. It is also not known if the Bridal Path mansions of other celebrities, such as Celine Dion or Mick Jagger, were affected.
On Tuesday, Toronto was hit with record levels of rainfall. In one day the city was hit by over 100 mm of rain, more than the 71.6 mm of rainfall that Toronto usually receives over the entire month of July. This makes it the fifth-wettest day in the city’s history.
The record-breaking rainfall caused severe flooding in areas across the entire city, including over 700 calls reporting basement flooding. The Don Valley Parkway saw cars submerged almost up to the windshield with some motorists stranded on the roofs of their cars awaiting rescue.
Drake’s mansion made headlines back in May when one of the rapper’s security guards was shot from a vehicle that fled the scene while standing by the front gate of the property. This came shortly after rapper Kendrick Lamar used an aerial image of the mansion as the cover for his single Not Like Us, a Drake diss track.