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   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   A Friend wrote:   
      
   >. . .   
      
   >BTW Lucy bought Desi out of Desilu in 1962 for $2.5 mil.  She sold her   
   >stake to Paramount six years later for $17 million.   
      
   I doubt it was undervalued at the time, and maybe that was all the cash   
   she could raise. I'll guess that the value was set during divorce.   
      
   I'm not sure why he wanted out of the studio as he knew what he was doing   
   and we've always read that Lucy and Desi made excellent business partners   
   even if they couldn't maintain a marriage.   
      
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