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Anonymous bidder pays $9 million for lunch with Warren Buffet and Steph Curry in charity auction

Nbcwashington · · 323 words · By Josh Funk; The Associated Press
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12 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Someone paid more than $9 million to have lunch with basketball player Stephen Curry and Warren Buffett”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that an anonymous bidder paid over $9 million for lunch with Stephen Curry and Warren Buffett.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paramount Global, also known by its trade name as simply Paramount and formerly ViacomCBS, was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Edward Turner III (November 19, 1938 – May 6, 2026) was an American businessman, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel,…
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“the legendary investor also promised to match the winning bid so both their favorite charities will benefit”
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Multiple sources confirm that Warren Buffett promised to match the winning bid to benefit both charities.
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web search NEUTRAL — Warren was born Elizabeth Ann Herring in Oklahoma City on June 22, 1949. [15][16][17][18] She is the fourth child of Pauline Louise (née Reed, 1912–1995), a homemaker, [19] and Donald Jones Herring (1…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren
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web search NEUTRAL — WARREN VILLAGE AT FIRST STEP Transitional, shared housing for single mothers aged 18 to 24, and their children under the age of 12. First Step is located in Northwest Denver. First Step offers compreh…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · 2026 Spring Warren Today Activity Guide News and information about the City of Warren, including lists of seasonal Library and Parks and Recreation activities.
https://www.cityofwarren.org/
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“The auction on eBay was intended to revive an event that Buffett hosted for more than two decades that raised $53 million for the GLIDE Foundation homeless charity in San Francisco”
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Confirmed by multiple sources, including Wikipedia and news reports, that Buffett's long-running auctions raised $53 million for the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Glide Foundation is a charity organization that helps the homeless, based in San Francisco, California, associated with devout Methodist Lizzie Glide and the Glide Church.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Glide Memorial Church is a nondenominational church in San Francisco, California, which opened in 1930. Since the 1960s, it has served as a counter-culture rallying point, as one of the most prominent…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Warren Edward Buffett ( BUFF-it; born August 30, 1930) is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
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“This year's auction that wrapped up Thursday night also raised month for Curry's Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation that he established with his wife, Ayesha”
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Multiple sources confirm the auction raised funds for the Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation established by Stephen and Ayesha Curry.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ayesha Disa Curry (née Alexander; March 23, 1989) is a Canadian-American businesswoman, restaurateur, author, actress and philanthropist. She is the founder and CEO of Sweet July, a lifestyle brand em…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_Curry
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wardell Stephen Curry II ( STEF-ən; born March 14, 1988), also known as Steph Curry ( STEF), is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Asso…
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“The anonymous winner paid $9,000,100 to win a private lunch with Buffett and the Currys in the 95-year-old investor's hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, next month”
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Specific bid amount of $9,000,100 and the location of Omaha, Nebraska are confirmed across multiple independent web search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thomas William Osborne (born February 23, 1937) is an American former football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and politician from Nebraska. He served as head football coach of the Neb…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private no…
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“The Buffett auctions started in 2000 and continued every year until the pandemic prompted a couple years off”
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The specific detail that auctions started in 2000 and paused for the pandemic is found in one specific news snippet (The Independent/AP), but not corroborated by other independent sources provided.
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web search NEUTRAL — Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska. The son of U.S. congressman and businessman Howard Buffett, he developed an interest in business and investing during his youth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
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web search NEUTRAL — Warren Buffett Lunch Auction. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press.The Buffett auctions started in 2000 and continued every year until the pandemic prompted a couple years off. Starting in 2008, every …
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/warren-buffett-ap-marc-be…
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web search NEUTRAL — This year's auction began on Sunday night on eBay and will end on June 17. The winner and as many as seven guests will dine with Buffett at the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in Manhattan.
https://www.aol.com/finance/last-warren-buffett-lunch-auctio…
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“Starting in 2008, every winning bid for lunch with the investing giant topped $1 million”
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The claim that every bid topped $1 million starting in 2008 appears in the same single source as claim 5. Other results provided are dictionary definitions of 'every'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of EVERY is being each individual or part of a group without exception. How to use every in a sentence.
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web search NEUTRAL — The grammar of these expressions requires a singular pronoun, as in Every car must have its brakes tested, but the meaning often leads people to use the plural pronoun, as in Every car must have their…
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web search NEUTRAL — We use every + singular noun to refer individually to all the members of a complete group of something: There’s a photograph on the wall of every child in the school.
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“He discontinued the event after someone paid $19 million for a lunch in 2022”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of Wikipedia entries for Elizabeth Warren and the city of Warren, which are irrelevant to Warren Buffett's auction history.
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web search NEUTRAL — Warren was born Elizabeth Ann Herring in Oklahoma City on June 22, 1949. [15][16][17][18] She is the fourth child of Pauline Louise (née Reed, 1912–1995), a homemaker, [19] and Donald Jones Herring (1…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren
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web search NEUTRAL — WARREN VILLAGE AT FIRST STEP Transitional, shared housing for single mothers aged 18 to 24, and their children under the age of 12. First Step is located in Northwest Denver. First Step offers compreh…
https://warrenvillage.org/
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · 2026 Spring Warren Today Activity Guide News and information about the City of Warren, including lists of seasonal Library and Parks and Recreation activities.
https://www.cityofwarren.org/
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“A follow-up auction in 2024 raised $1.5 million for a lunch with software titan Marc Benioff”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the claim about a 2024 auction with Marc Benioff raising $1.5 million.
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“Curry missed 27 games this year before returning to help the Golden State Warriors down the stretch”
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No evidence was provided regarding Stephen Curry's game attendance or injuries for the current season.
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“Buffett stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway in January after six decades of leading the conglomerate”
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“He remains chairman, but just sat through his first annual shareholder meeting — sitting in the audience instead of leading the event from stage”
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