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Turnover chain creator was once banned by UNC athletics

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The Miami Hurricanes’ turnover chain — or more specifically, the Cutler Bay jeweler who designed it — is now making waves in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Anthony John Machado, known as the “King of Bling” and owner of AJ’s Jewelry in Cutler Bay, reportedly “was banned from interacting with North Carolina athletes at the start of the NCAA’s investigation into the UNC football program in 2010,’’ the News & Observer of Charlotte wrote on Friday.

The article stated that “UNC on Oct. 25, 2010, sent a letter of disassociation to Machado addressed to his store, AJ’s Jewelry in Cutler Bay, Fla.