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In my previous life, I was an illusionist. Nothing major, mostly close up and bar gags.
I had a subscription to IBM and that’s where I discovered Lance Burton. He had a gig in the Tropicana in Vegas and that’s where I met him in person. He was signing show programs.
I walked up and handed him a $5 Trop chip to sign. He said he had never signed a chip before, so when he did, I knew it was one of a kind. It would probably be worth a lot of $$ today because they tore down the Trop and gave Lance his own theater to perform in at the Monte Carlo.
At the time, he was married to “Melinda: The First Lady of Magic (Melinda Saxe)”. They soon divorced due to infidelity. It wasn’t Lance either. Mel was paying for sex with probably more than one male prostitute. I did hear the story from one of them which wouldn’t give up his name.
I had that signed chip in my magic bag for several years until a meth addicted bitch named Christina Vanhule burglarized my house in 2K4. She took everything she could cram in an Escalade to sell to satisfy her habit.
I did get some property back, but not the Lance Burton signed casino chip.
Vanhule is currently serving seven years in prison due to the fact that she is a felon and she robbed a cop’s house too taking his side arm. You can’t be a felon and be in control of a gun in King County without going up the river.
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