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The night my husband struck me five times with his belt because his mistress accused me of scratching her luxury car, he believed the worst thing he could do was force me to sign away my marriage, my home, and every dollar I had helped him build, but while his mistress smiled beside him and he ordered me to leave before midnight, neither of them knew I had recorded every threat, that the divorce papers were being signed under coercion, or that one phone call from me could stop the $3.2 billion rescue package his collapsing company needed to survive until Monday morning.