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Mother says he never owned items sold

BRISTOL, Ind. -- A man who used Shawn Kemp's name to stage a moving sale at a house the former NBA All-Star once owned has agreed to give Kemp a quarter of the sale's proceeds.

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Kemp's mother, Barbara Kemp, said Jeff Chupp was using the 14-year NBA veteran's name to front the moving sale and was duping buyers into believing the items once belonged to her famous son.

Chupp, a local land developer, bought Shawn Kemp's former 10,000-square-foot house in December. Du Bois Enterprises is
conducting the five-day moving sale that owner Orville Du Bois
estimated would raise $100,000, The Truth of Elkhart reported.

Chupp disagreed, saying "It will be a whole lot less than
that."

When Kemp's attorney, Scott Boatman, threatened Chupp with a
lawsuit, he agreed to give 25 percent of the sale's revenue to
Kemp, who planned to donate the money to Canaan Baptist Church in
Elkhart.

Kemp graduated in 1988 from Concord High School in Elkhart and
was baptized at the city church as a child. His mother is still a
member there.

Barbara Kemp had managed the three-story, five bedroom house,
which included eight bathrooms, six fireplaces, an indoor hot tub
and outdoor swimming pool. She said Kemp took all his belongings
when he left Bristol, about 25 miles east of South Bend.

"It all came out when he sold the home," she said.

The sale began Tuesday and continues through Saturday. Artwork
by Bob Byerley and a grand piano had already sold for $10,000 each,
but his mother said they didn't belong to Kemp.

"Shawn never had a piano in his life. That was not his,"
Barbara Kemp said. "There was some artwork there, but nothing that
we bought."

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