How I Got My Part of the Money

"I had a deep and abiding belief that the money would in some way solve the problem of the girl," he says. "Who knew how a guy with a new ride and some money in his pocket might be received?" He recalls being told by Big Man there was no check for him to get when he turned 18 on April 1, 1968. The man who raised him later died at age 62 from lung cancer but left behind more than $1 million.