It’s the definition of coming full circle. In order to pay his lawyers, Oscar Pistorius will now sell the £278,000 (nearly $460,000) Pretoria home where he shot and killed his former girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. "It has become necessary to sell Mr Pistorius's home in the Silver Woods Country Estate in Pretoria in order for him to raise the necessary funds to cover his increasing legal costs," the Pistorius’ lawyer Brian Webber said in a statement. "This is due to the unexpected extension of the trial beyond the initial three-week period for which it was originally set down." Pistorius is currently spending as much as $9,000 a day on the trial, and since the murder, he has lost endorsements deals that made him up to $510,000 annually.
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