She told WABC her only take home from the casino was a steak dinner offer. “You didn’t win nothing,” the guard responded, Bookman told the television news outlet. “So what did I win?” she asked the guard. A guard escorted her off the floor, telling her to come back the next day. In fact the machine itself shows a top prize of only $251,000.After she won, Bookman told the outlet she was flanked by several customers and security personnel. "What I want is the money that was shown on that slot machine that I won," she tells INSIDE EDITION. The casino is blaming a glitch in the slot machine, saying, "The payout amount in question is under review as it does not exist as a potential payout by that machine, in our casino or in Colorado." Colorado gaming officials are also investigating. "So for five hours you thought you were multi-millionaire?" asks INSIDE EDITION's Les Trent. It was not until about 4:30 in the morning that I was told the machine malfunctioned." "Of course I had dreams of what I was going to do with that money. she hit the jackpot! She even wrote down the exact amount she'd won: $42,949,673.84. She went to the Fortune Valley Casino in Central City, Colorado to celebrate her 53rd birthday. She makes about $12,000 a year as a home health aide. I was a million dollar person for one second and all of a sudden, boom," Chavez says. "I couldn't believe, you know, $42 million?" she tells INSIDE EDITION.īut casino executives claim the slot machine was malfunctioning, and they're refusing to pay her the money.
Chavez thought that she had just won $42 million playing a slot machine. "All of a sudden, I just hit the jackpot," says Louise Chavez.Īnd it was a jackpot beyond her wildest dreams.
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