CrabbyCancer69

Jennifer Lopez's Mother Wins $2.4 Million
Apr 6, 6:56 AM EST

Jennifer Lopez's mother won a $2.4 million jackpot while playing $1 slots at Atlantic City.

Guadalupe Lopez, 58, of New York, was playing Wheel of Fortune at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa when she hit for $2,421,291.76 just before 8 p.m. Saturday, according to the casino.

Casino spokesman Michael Facenda denied knowing of any relationship between the jackpot winner and pop celebrity Jennifer Lopez. But Us Weekly and People magazine report in upcoming issues that Guadalupe Lopez is Jennifer's mother

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Jennifer Lopez's publicist, Rob Shuter, declined to comment Monday night.

Us Weekly reports that Guadalupe Lopez plans to use a portion of her winnings to start a $100,000 college fund for her two grandchildren.

[img]smilies/look.gif[/img] figures something like that would happen [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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secret boyfriend

i wonder if she's gonna buy somethin for J.Lo.
Someone must really like those Lopez ladies.

Katis

Have to admit this makes me kinda mad.

I mean if her granddaughter is that rich it isn't like grandma is going to want for much.

Why can't anyone in my family win the lottery? Gah.

CrabbyCancer69

I was in Vegas a few weeks ago and I played that same game!!!! That reaaaaally makes me mad! It was the dumb Wheel of Fortune slots!! I need 2.4 million! Yeah, how do people get so lucky?

Age-a-licious

It runs in their blood? [img]smilies/look.gif[/img]

Headhunter

Wow. That's...something. Excuse me, I have a flight to Atlantic City to catch... [img]smilies/chase.gif[/img]

migamoo

you know, if figures that this would happen to her or someone like her. her daughter is already rich and now she gets all that money. it's just not fair to the rest of us.

Charlize'sAngel

Yeah, they don't really need that amount of money in the first place... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Evie

Ah tsk tsk, Jen can't fork over $100, 000 for her neice/nephews? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

That sucks. I don't think she deserves it.

Silversun

I don't think anyone deserves to win on a pokie machine. It's just luck. Whether they need the money is entirely besides the point.

I don't get why people are seemingly so bitter about it. Sure, the Lopezs are loaded anyway, but so what? Should they feel obliged now to give money to charity or give the winnings back to the casino? That's just ludicrous. I think it's cool she won. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

dawsonandjo1

People who don't need the money are usually the ones that win it.

Evie

Yes, that's true. It's stupid to have the possibility to win the prize from a game like that. Lotto I can understand..but the Pokies?

Bitter because she doesn't deserve it! That's the bottom line. Her daughter is very rich, I think her other daughter is dating some guy from tv (so they must be comfortably well off) and then for her of all people to win it? I'm sure there are heaps of people who are more deserved winners.

Must suck to be the person who had a go before her..

Silversun

Um, I think you're confusing "deserve" with "need". Even though she obviously doesn't need the money, she deserves it just as much as anybody else. To 'deserve' something is to have done something good so that people think you're worthy of getting something back; and I don't see how Person A pulling a lever on a machine is any more deserving of money than Person B who pulled the same lever on the same machine.

Mootrix

Well that's typical! The rich people get richer, while the poor people don't get anything!

Evie

No no. I see it as whether or not one is worthy of the prize. She's not.

She doesn't need it and she doesn't deserve it. Simple. There's really no need to justify it.