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(Meredith) -- A woman who recently purchased a storage unit from "Storage Wars" Dan Dotson found $7.5 million in cash inside the unit. According to the Desert Sun, the A&E reality "Storage Wars" star sold a unit to a woman for $500 in Southern California. A month later, a friend of the woman told Dotson at a charity event that her friend found the load of cash inside a safe in the unit. Dotson said the attorney for the original owners of the unit found out their storage was sold and contacted the woman to negotiate a deal.

Dan Dotson, the familiar face of the A&E reality show "Storage Wars," was standing at a charity event in Indio on Nov. 1 when a quiet woman approached him. She had a story to tell the auctioneer. Her friend bought a storage unit from Dotson the month before in Southern California — and found inside that shed was $7.5 million in cash. It came as a surprise to the buyer and the auctioneer. “It was an amazing story,” Dotson told The Desert Sun as he recalled the exchange. “She said, ‘I just gotta tell you this story, my husband...