The Cocktail Waitress Who Inherited Four Casinos — And Destroyed Them All Within a Year

She wasn't supposed to inherit anything. She was supposed to take your drink order, smile, and disappear back into the crowd. But when Harold Cavanaugh died of a heart attack in his office on a Tuesday morning in nineteen eighty-nine, he left everything to a woman his own children had never accepted, a woman who had been carrying cocktail trays on a casino floor when they first met, a woman who had never balanced a business ledger in her life. Four casinos. Three states. A fortune that took thirty years to build. And she destroyed all of it in eleven months.