Snoods
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The married mortgage broker who lives in Aventura, Florida,claims she originally planned to share the jackpot with her friend, but after he began threatening her, she changed her mind.
Hot girl met not hot guy at a casino and they became the best of buds!
Moral of the story: Be careful who you let pull your lever.
Two former friends have fallen out after winning a $100,000 jackpot at a Florida casino because of where the chips fell.
When Jan Flato, 66, was gambling at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Fort Lauderdale when he told his companion Marina Medvedeva Navarro to push the button for him 'for good luck'.
When the reels spun to reveal the winning numbers, Jan was ecstatic, until he tried to collect his money - and clerks told him the hefty jackpot was rightfully Navarro's.
Since then, the two have been in a furious row over the winnings.
'Upstairs, the eye in the sky says she technically touched the button, so we have to pay her,' Flato told the Miami Herald of the January 31st incident.
A spokesperson for the casino confirmed that after surveillance footage showed Navarro, 35, pressing the button to launch the reels, she became the rightful owner of the jackpot.
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Flato, however, says he paid the $50-a-spin on the Double Top Dollar machine, and used his gambling card to do so.
Navarro later disputed this claim, saying that it was her who funded the fated spin.
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When the $50,000 check and another $50,000 in cash was handed over to Navarro, her companion did not take the loss lightly.
'Jan, all of the sudden, went ballistic. He started screaming in front of everybody,' she told the Herald.
She claims he also sent her a number of aggressive text messages, one of which read: 'Having me as an enemy... Not good.'
She responded to him several weeks later, asking if he still hated her.
Flato reportedly texted her back asking, 'How could you do that to me?'
Navarro maintains that her former friend is now trying to ruin her reputation, but Flato says he simply wants to raise awareness for the seemingly unfair rule.
'I'm a hard-working professional and [Flato] is playing with my honor,' she said.
Her personal Facebook page has been flooded with hateful comments from users who caught wind of the story.
One man named Lee Bradbury commented on a number of her posts calling her a 'gold digging piece of s***'.
Another speculated that Flato got 'played' by Navarro and was 'trying to schmooze his way into her pants'.
Flato, who added he first met Navarro at the high-roller room at Gulfstream Park in 2015, said he simply wanted 'everybody to know what happened so it won't happen to them.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...es-jackpot-glamorous-friend-pushed-lever.html