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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0122-flo-rida-tmz\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/01/22/0122-flo-rida-tmz-3.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flo Rida&lt;/strong&gt; got taken for a Rida -- at least according to new court docs -- the rapper claims he forked over $170,000 to purchase a house in the Sunshine State ... and the owners ran off with his money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the story -- Flo claims he attempted to purchase the home from Florida couple Pierre and Marie Malette in 2009 ... but the deal never closed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br dir=\"ltr\" id=\"tinymce\" class=\"mceContentBody \" contenteditable=\"true\" /&gt;Flo claims he handed over the money as a down payment, but the Malettes never signed over the house ... leaving Flo with no house and no money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources close to Flo tell us he's not as upset about the house -- he wasn't going to live there ... it's more about the dough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Malettes have since filed for bankruptcy ... and now Flo has filed a claim in their case, demanding his $170K.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2011/12/21/4227-celebrity-cribs/\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0121_celebrity_cribs_footer\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/01/21/0121-celebrity-cribs-footer-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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