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Christmas card list if she failed to meet Billups' demand of paying him and Calloway $ 20,000 each. Billups and Calloway were subsequently arrested in Seminole County on December 16 after warrants for their arrests were issued, and they were each released on $ 50,000 bond the following day. This case prompted multiple women to come forward and accuse Billups of sexually assaulting them in similar fashions, but no additional charges were filed. Billups accepted a plea deal that reduced his charges to only one count of criminal conspiracy, and he was sentenced to serve three years of probation, which would begin following his release from the Atlanta federal penitentiary on April 4, 1994. Billups died just five days after his federal incarceration ended.
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