PHOTO: Prince with his then-wife Manuela Testolini in 2004. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images files

Realtor Barry Cohen sits on a half-moon couch backed by a wall of mirrors in a large basement room with purple walls, purple shag carpeting and a pool table with purple felt rhyming off all the things his father taught him never to discuss with clients: religion, politics, sports and music.

Such are the subject areas that a high-end real estate agent, renowned for selling luxury Toronto homes often better described as castles, faux French chateaus or English country estate knockoffs, should be wary of wading into with the wealthy people Barry Cohen Homes Inc. represents.

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