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9. Marie made million-dollar donations to the church

Marie said she would honor her promise of $10M to the church. She had already given $680,000 and was waiting for the remainder to come through, but that wasn't enough for the church.

She had formed the Marie Holmes Foundation with an initial investment of $9.7m and in November wrote out a personal check for $680,000 to her church.