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===Financial troubles=== Seven years after winning a women's record five Olympic track and field medals and receiving multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, Jones was broke.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cbs.sportsline.com/worldsports/story/10236098 |title=Former Olympian, track millionaire Jones now broke |work=CBS Sports |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629023321/http://cbs.sportsline.com/worldsports/story/10236098 |archive-date=June 29, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.billsbills.com/blog/north-carolina-star-athlete-bankruptcy-how-marion-jones-lost-it-all | title=North Carolina Star Athlete in Bankruptcy - How Marion Jones Lost It All - John T. Orcutt - Celebrity Money Problems Relieved by Chapter 7 }}</ref> According to the Associated Press, Jones was heavily in debt and fighting off court judgments, according to court records reviewed by the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. In 2006, a bank foreclosed on her $2.5 million mansion in [[Apex, North Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=2007-06-24 |title=Jones Says She's in Financial Debt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/sports/othersports/24sportsbriefs-jones.html |access-date=2024-08-17 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In her prime, Jones was one of track's first female sports millionaires, typically earning between $70,000 and $80,000 a race, plus at least another $1 million from race bonuses and endorsement deals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-06-25 |title=Court documents show Marion Jones almost broke |url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/news/story?id=2915341 |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref>
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