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You Have a Puncher’s Chance to Buy Sylvester Stallone’s Childhood Home

The Maryland home where actor Sylvester Stallone lived as a child is now on the market for $750,000. The Cape Cod–style home is located in Silver Spring, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC.

Before Stallone appeared in his first “Rocky” film, he was a skinny kid with a speech impediment, the result of a birth trauma that left his face partly paralyzed.

Although the dates of Stallone’s life in Maryland are a little vague, biographies say the actor lived in Silver Spring for about 10 years in the 1950s and ’60s, when his father ran a beauty school and his mother opened a women’s gym.

Listing agent Alfredo Duque with Re/Max Premiere Selections says the young Stallone was bullied in school because of his stutter and was “kicked out” of two local elementary schools.

Eventually, Stallone made it to New York and broke into show business, earning international fame for his lead roles in “Rocky” and “Rambo.”

The house he (and his parents) left behind has three stories, four bedrooms, and 4.5 baths. The home, built in 1952 and renovated in 2004, features hardwood floors and a main-floor master suite.

Stallone isn’t the only notable person to own the modest house. Yeorgos Lampathakis, an animator and retired art director of the National Geographic Society, owned the modest brick home in the 1970s.

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