J. Lo's Mom Hits $2.4 Million Atlantic City Jackpot

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20040406/od_nm/life_jackpot_dc

wouldn't you know:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jennifer Lopez's mother, a retired New York kindergarten teacher, scooped up a $2.4 million jackpot playing slot machines in Atlantic City.

Guadalupe Lopez, 58, hit it big off a $3 bet on a "Wheel of Fortune" slot machine at the swanky Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa on Saturday night, a representative of her singer/actress daughter confirmed on Tuesday.

The haul represented a record slots payout at the Borgata, which opened last July.

The Atlantic City record slot machine prize is $8.5 million, collected at the former Bally's Grand in 1994, now the Atlantic City Hilton, according to International Gaming Technology.

[MrSlayer]

1. Sickening.

Like they need any more money.

[LiberalD]

8. (newbee)

(sarcasism)Yeah they do need more money just like I need another bill! (sarcasism)
But really she won it and winning has nothing to do with need.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

18. Welcome to DU!!

WE're glad to have you...hope you enjoy yourself!!
Duckie

[Supply Side Jesus]

2. a retired teacher?

good karma there...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Maybe she won't take money from Jenny, and this was her

way to funnel money to mama?

[keopeli]

3. Just goes to show you, money has no prejudice. Only people do.

[listenup]

4. was there a paper trail?

is the machine code open source?

I'm kidding.

oh, hell, I don't care. It just seems unusual and like lightning striking twice in the same place for an already wealthy person to win the money based on the losses of how many thousands before her that also played the game?

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Too be fair, her daughter's the one with the money.

Snicker...:hi:

[name not needed]

7. who gives a fuck

it could have happened to anyone. this is just dumb luck, as many things are.

[listenup]

9. I give a fuck because

it is interesting that a wealthy family wins 2.4 million dollars on a supposedly open "game."

Dumb luck doesn't happen anymore. Did you miss the computer revolution and the fact that those with fuck those who are without?

[FDRrocks]

11. It might be luck...

As far as I read (admittedly not far) it didn't mention how much money she had spent on however many gambles. I imagine the mother of Jennifer Lopez has plenty of scratch to gamble.

[listenup]

13. yeah, could be

didn't mean to sound so irritable about it, but it pisses me off.

How many people living in that region played that machine? How many tourists played that machine? It couldn't have been a retired schoolteacher who had just sent her last 50 cents to Kerry? No. It had to be a "celebrity's" mother.

[LagaLover]

16. You are kidding, right?

I mean, you can't seriously think this was rigged so J-Lo's mom would win, can you?

[listenup]

19. why not?

I also believe in blue colored fairies with teeth that they put under children's pillows!

What the hell. A conspiracy is nice to believe in now and again, and this one, at least, seems harmless.

[Delarage]

10. Just proves the Repuke theory

that God likes rich people better.

[mouse7]

12. That Bi....

That Big Rich woman gets richer. Damn it.

(Had ya' goin' huh?)

[listenup]

14. did you mean to say

big
ignorant
twitchy
catheter nosed
hermaphrodite?


go ahead. You can say it!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. we ALL know that Bitch means....

Being
In
Total
Control
Honey
!

[THUNDER HANDS]

17. damn dollar machines

The most I ever won was $250 on one of those machines. Of course, it would have been $1000 if I did the maximum spin, but, oh well.