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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An anonymous buyer has purchased the deferred salary the New York Mets owe former outfielder Darryl Strawberry, according to the &lt;em&gt;Associated Press&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The IRS had announced in December that the contract would be sold at auction.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The IRS sold the money at auction in order to cover Strawberry's unpaid taxes. The buyer, who paid $1.3 million, will receive&amp;nbsp;$8,891.82&amp;nbsp;every month from the Mets for over 18 years, a total of nearly $2 million.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The money comes from Strawberry's 1990 team option. According to ESPN's Darren Rovell, $700,000 of Strawberry's $1.8 million option was placed in an annuity with a 5.1 percent interest rate.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The government sued Strawberry in 2007 for $500,000 he owed in backed taxes from 1989, 1990, 2003 and 2004. Strawberry's ex-wife, Charisse, also sued for a portion of the deferred money when she filed for bankruptcy, Rovell reports, but the IRS ruled the funds were owed to the government.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strawberry has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse and has also been treated for cancer twice.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Dan Gartland&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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