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Tenn. Mom Sells Name For $15,000

POSTED: 6:58 am EST March 30, 2005
UPDATED: 9:54 am EST March 31, 2005

A mother of five in Tennessee who put her name up for bid online sold it to an Internet gambling site for $15,000, according to a Local 6 News report.

  • Terri Iligan, 33, sells her name to help send her daugther to the same golf school that Tiger Woods attended.

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    Terri Iligan, 33, said she decided to sell her name to help send her daughter to the same golf school that Tiger Woods attended.

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    Tenn. Mom Sells Name For $15,000

    The Internet site Golden Palace Casino won the auction for $15,000.

    Iligan will officially be named goldenpalace.com once the legal work is complete.

    "To my kids and to my husband, I will always be Terri. My husband is real supportive," she told WATE-TV in Knoxville. "He thinks it's funny. As long as they get to call me mom, they don't care."

    Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

    Copyright 2006 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.



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