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"Most of &lt;strong&gt;Ben Roethlisberger&lt;/strong&gt;'s ill-fated party weekend was thoroughly planned out weeks in advance -- minus the whole alleged sexual assault part -- and TMZ has learned the festivities even had a name ... \"&lt;strong&gt;Ben-a-Palooza&lt;/strong&gt;.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2010/03/12/2547-ben-roethlisberger-benapalooza\"&gt;&lt;img hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Ben Roethlisberger\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2010/03/14/0301_ben_launch-2.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Palooza is a tradition that Ben and his pals have put together for the past several years in which the Steelers quarterback and a group of his friends celebrate Ben's birthday together. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year, Ben-a-Palooza began at Roethlisberger's home near Pittsburgh, where the group -- pictured above wearing customized Palooza shirts -- boarded a party bus bound for Ben's lake house in Georgia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the bus arrived to the home, several members spent one of the nights on a bar crawl in Milledgeville where Ben was later accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman in a nightclub bathroom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing spoils a Palooza like a criminal investigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\n&lt;div class=\"related\"&gt;\n&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;More Ben Roethlisberger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;\n&lt;ul&gt;\n    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/13/cops-in-roethlisberger-pic-not-on-the-case/\"&gt;Cops in Roethlisberger Pic Not on the Case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;\n    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/12/ben-roethlisberger-hires-high-profile-private-dick/\"&gt;Ben Roethlisberger Hires High Profile Private Dick &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;\n    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/12/roethlisberger-cop-photos-capital-city-earlier-time-frame-pics/\"&gt;Big Ben -- Cop Photos Not From Capital City&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;\n&lt;/ul&gt;\n&lt;/div&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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