Mayor Crack House Revealed: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's Crack House Has Been Found [Pics]

Embattled Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, has been dodging questions about a reported video that shows him smoking crack, but the mayor's reported crack house has been found.  

According to multiple outlets, including Gawker, the CBC and the Toronto Star, the house where a photo purportedly featuring Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, posing with drug dealers where it's rumored he visited to smoke crack has been found. 

It's unlikely the mayor's crack house find will make much of a difference since Ford has said he will run for mayor again despite the crack allegations and the max exodus on most of his senior staff after the allegations broke last month. 

The house where the photo was taken is on Windsor Road in northwest Toronto, near Kipling Avenue and Dixon Road, according to the reports Thursday. 

Meanwhile, not long after Gawker broke the story of the mayor's crack house visits, a man wielding a pipe attacked two people at the Windsor address injuring a 31-year-old female and a 44-year-old male. 

Police say the May 21 assault lead them to the Windsor home address where it is said the residents were not very cooperative with police. 

According to the CBC, "The attacker, who ran out the front door in an 'unknown direction,' was described as a black male in his mid-30s wearing dark clothing. Police told CBC News that they have 'no information that the suspect was looking for a video,' as some news outlets have alleged, but did say he was specifically looking for one of the victims."

Gawker, meanwhile is writing that the assault on the house in the Etobicoke neighborhood of Toronto was actually a result of someone looking for the video; although, the veracity of that claim has been questioned by other outlets. 

Gawker has raised $200,000 in funds to procure the reputed "Mayor Crack Video," and they're confirming that the owners of the 15 Windsor Rd. house confirmed that mayor Rob Ford was a frequent guest at the home and that it had been running crack sales for months. 

The mayor's crack house is owned by an elderly retiree named Lina Basso. Her children, Mario Basso (40), Favio Basso (45 and Elena Basso (51) are residents at the home too, and that Fabio Basso and Mayor Rob Ford "knew each other from high school."

Writes Gawker:

"A source who knows both Basso and Ford tells Gawker that the men are longtime friends, and that Ford has been a frequent visitor to 15 Windsor over the years. According to this source, the video of Ford smoking crack was recorded there at some point six to eight months ago during one of Ford's 'binges.' 'He's been doing it for years,' the source said of Ford's trip to the house. 'They go down in the basement and party.' The source said he would frequently hear Fabio complain, after Ford's visits, 'Rob and my sister kept me up all night.'

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