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WORLD / Newsmaker
Powerball win: Fantasy or nightmare?
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-14 15:19
"It wasn't two or three months before she was right back on again, same
drugs," he said.
He remembers their last conversation, when she was packing up to move to
his Virginia home. "I told her, 'I'll come and get ya. I'll come and get
ya right now if you're ready to come.'"
But she wasn't. Her body was found two weeks later wrapped in a sheet and
plastic tarp, hidden in a yard by a boyfriend who panicked when he found
her dead.
The state's autopsy found Bragg had pills and a syringe tucked into her
bra, and died with cocaine and methadone in her system. But the manner of
her death is officially listed as "undetermined."
"If it would bring my granddaughter back, I'd give it all back,"
Whittaker said of his jackpot. "But I can't get her back, so might as
well keep the money, I guess."
He remains devoted to his employees, despite 11 indictments charging his
staff with embezzling from his companies.
"Jack is an incredible man," said Kathy Shepherd, Whittaker's
administrative assistant for the past year. "People who don't know him
have a lot of negative things to say about him, but if they knew him,
they wouldn't."
Whittaker has little doubt as to his own legacy.
"I'm only going to be remembered as the lunatic who won the lottery," he
said. "I'm not proud of that. I wanted to be remembered as someone who
helped a lot of people."
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