Colorful NJ lottery winner & wife have regrets

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'The drama is nonstop': Powerball winner 'Wild' Willie wants his old life back - U.S. News

Then they helped family, funding a house for one kid, a master’s degree for another. Willie’s father, a retired artist who gave Willie his country-peacock sense of style, has cancer — so Willie helped fund his second round of chemo, watching as his old man’s prognosis improved in the process. “I do good deeds every day,” he said, “just like Dale Earnhardt. And just like him I don’t like bragging about it.”

“They put me in the National Enquirer, next to Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. I mean I ain’t into all that.”

He seems to have Southern sensibilities/outlook. Maybe he's from the Pinelands which is about as rural as one can get up in the Northeast.