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20 strange facts about Powerball winner
Marie Holmes house you may not know

11. Marie's new home had slave plantation connections

Marie Holmes bought a large house, but it turned out later that the property had previously been a slave plantation. Soon after Holmes won the Powerball jackpot, she bought the sprawling estate in her hometown. One of the first things Television personality Iyanla Vanzant, the host of the show “Fix My Life,” noticed when she arrived was that Marie’s 'beautiful estate' was actually a plantation home.