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“I swallowed my bubble gum,” recalls general manager Michael Dunn, who says flashing all that cash “was just a stupid gesture.” There are people in this world who’ll knock you in the head for $5. “My worst nightmare was waking up in the morning and reading in the paper that Jack Whittaker got rolled at the Pink Pony. I said: ‘Please put that money away. Please don’t do that again.'”. Jack didn’t respond to repeated requests to be interviewed for this article. According to Dunn, Jack put away the cash but made it clear that he was there to whoop it up. He whooped it up so much that he couldn’t drive home. “I stuck his butt in a limo at the end of the night,” Dunn says.

Most everybody in West Virginia had an opinion on how Jack should spend his fortune: Fix potholes; put a new roof on the library; spay cats and dogs; buy a coloring book for every kid, Since Jack said he was going to give away much of his winnings, a lot of people thought it would be a fine idea if he gave some to them, They turned up at the C&L Super Serve in the wee hours and waited for the great man to show up for biscuits, People lurked in the pink ballerina fashion illustration art print / fashion sketch, girls room decor, pointe shoes, pink tutu, ballet art print, dan parking lot wild-eyed, or paced the store aisles as if they were deciding whether to buy a folding knife, flag decal, work gloves or the hunter’s best friend: a “hands-free grunter,” promising authentic deer noises, Even an evangelist from Israel hit up Jack for cash, “A lot of them, they had cancer, or their child was dying,” Brenda says, “Different stuff like that, which was heartbreaking, It would even make you want to reach in your own pocket.”..

One morning Brenda was trying to chat with Jack, when a distraught young man, who said he was out of work, interrupted. “I need a job!” he shouted. Jack was real nice to the fellow, Brenda says. “Jack was, like, ‘Well, you come down to my office, and I’ll see what I can do for you.’ But mainly what the man wanted was money. He was, like, ‘No, I need money right now!'”. Pretty soon, Jack stopped coming to the convenience store, Brenda says. But people still found him to ask for money. They telephoned his home and rang his doorbell. Given the size of Jack’s fortune, some were reluctant to go away empty-handed. A few threatened Jack’s family. Off-duty deputies from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department began providing private security for his family.

“I don’t know if life will ever be normal again,” Jack told a reporter for Channel 13 in Charleston, Brenda knew how he felt, Jack made good on his promise to help her, He let Brenda pick out a new Jeep, bought her a $123,000 pink ballerina fashion illustration art print / fashion sketch, girls room decor, pointe shoes, pink tutu, ballet art print, dan house and gave her a check for $44,000, She didn’t know how he’d come up with that particular sum, She was too stunned to ask, “It was overwhelming,” says Brenda, who grew up on welfare in a family of seven children, Brenda’s grown daughter, who didn’t work, figured that since her ma was rich she should buy her a trailer and a new car, Brenda did, Other relatives demanded help Brenda couldn’t give, Brenda and one of her sisters stopped talking..

Some people had the mistaken impression that Brenda and the clerk who’d sold Jack his winning ticket were now millionaires. Once, a man followed the other clerk home from work. Brenda’s boyfriend started getting paranoid. “He’d say, I don’t want anybody to try to kidnap you,” Brenda recalls. Meanwhile, Jack had so much mail that he hired three people to open the thousands of begging letters. He hired a private investigator to sort out which supplicants claiming to have a child with cancer didn’t even have a child.

“At first, I didn’t think anything would change, but everything has changed,” Jack told a Charleston newspaper reporter, He sounded disenchanted with his role as West Virginia’s richest moral exemplar, His health wasn’t good, He had pancreatitis, and he’d had eight operations in eight years, He pink ballerina fashion illustration art print / fashion sketch, girls room decor, pointe shoes, pink tutu, ballet art print, dan figured he had about 10 good years left in life, he said, and wanted to live it to the fullest: “If someone’s got a problem with that, well, that’s just too bad.”..

Not long after Jack’s big win, he started staying out at night, a family friend says. Jewell was beside herself. She’d loved Jack since he was a broke boy from a hill clan with the unofficial motto: “Don’t start a bar fight, but never lose one.”. Jack had always been up for a good time and “happy-go-lucky,” says niece Melissa Harris, who works for the construction company Jack owns with her father. Jewell believed in living by the word of God. She didn’t favor drinking, Harris says. But she and Jack loved to dance for hours over at the Do-Wop, a ’50s dance at a local park. “She was madly in love with him, and he worshiped her,” Harris says. “I always thought they were the perfect couple.”.

Jewell declined to be interviewed for this article, but her nephew Billy Ray Wright describes his aunt and uncle as “the life force of our entire family, They were meant to be together.”, Now Jack had new friends, On March 24, 2003, Jack was at Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center, a 90,000-square-foot gambling mecca in Cross Lanes with 1,800 slot machines and 15 greyhound races daily, What happened there is the subject of lawsuits filed against Jack in Kanawha County, Jack was in the high-roller room with a woman, not his wife, floor attendant Kitti French claims, He seemed to have been drinking, As his comely companion played the pink ballerina fashion illustration art print / fashion sketch, girls room decor, pointe shoes, pink tutu, ballet art print, dan slots, Jack grabbed at her breasts and crotch, French contends, Jack’s lady friend got lucky at a slot machine, and a floor attendant named Ronda Lilly waited for the go-ahead from security before counting out the woman’s winnings, Lilly alleges that Jack grabbed her hair and laid hands on her backside, Another floor attendant, Charity Fortner, says she was leaning down to refill a slot machine with tokens when Jack grabbed her ponytail and shoved her head in the direction of his crotch, French, who also waited on Jack, claims that he snapped her bra..

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