Minnelli sells stepmother's house

US superstar Liza Minnelli has sold her late father Vincente Minnelli's Beverly Hills mansion for US$3.5 million ($5.28 million) with her elderly stepmother still inside it.

Oscar-winning director Minnelli, who died in 1986, left the house to his daughter with the stipulation that his widow, the now 98-year-old Lee Minnelli, be allowed to live in it for the rest of her life. Under reported the terms of the sale , Lee Minnelli will stay on and the new owners will hold off on plans to renovate.