After decades of gambling at casinos across the country — winning, losing, winning, losing — Denise Ezell says she finally hit the motherlode: a $127,000 jackpot at a progressive blackjack table at Detroit’s MGM Grand.
She screamed. The gambler seated next to her high-fived her. Onlookers cheered. The dealer congratulated her. Then came the buzzkill: The casino refused to pay her.
“I walked out of there penniless,” recalled Ezell, who spent months trying to collect her winnings, to no avail.
So she sued. In a classic David vs. Goliath tale unfolding in U.S. District Court, the 65-year-old working-class Detroiter sued the casino giant this week.
