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Billy Gene Jefferson Jr.’s mansion at the Boulevard and Monument Avenue is under contract.

The 8,340-square-foot house that belongs to the convicted Richmond developer and apartment landlord was on the market last spring for $2.4 million. The price was reduced to $2.1 million in July.

William A. White, president of Joyner Fine Properties, which has the listing, confirmed Monday that the Fan District property is under contract, but he declined to elaborate.

While the sale of his house is pending, Jefferson is on his way to prison, where he will spend the next major part of his life for engaging in a $13 million tax-credit scheme. He was sentenced last month to 20 years.

The Bureau of Prisons has not yet released where Jefferson will be imprisoned.

Jefferson had requested at his Sept. 22 sentencing in the U.S. District Court in Richmond to be imprisoned in Jesup, Ga., so he could be near his wife, whom he married while in jail.

In jail since Feb. 14 on allegations that he was squandering money and attempting to flee the country to avoid prosecution, Jefferson started at the Pamunkey Regional Jail in Hanover County and was moved to the Northern Neck Regional Jail for the past several weeks before sentencing.