TRENTON, N.J. – For Wayne Gretzky’s wife, Janet Jones, betting on a football game is “way tame, eh?” The part-time actress and full-time gambler not only bet $75,000 on this year’s Super Bowl but also wagered $5,000 on the pre-game coin toss, $10,000 on the over-under number of combined challenges utilized by Mike Holmgren and Bill Cowher, and $10,000 on the team with the greater third-down-conversion efficiency rating.
Jim Westfield, head of the New Jersey State Gambling Commission, the unit investigating a gambling ring bankrolled by hockey puck Rick Tocchet, called Mrs. Gretzky, forty-five, “a bettor of nymphomaniacal proportions.”
“That broad couldn’t achieve orgasm if she didn’t have money riding on the outcome,” said Mr. Westfield. “During our five-week investigation we recorded her placing in excess of half-a-million dollars in bets.”
According to Mr. Westfield, “If it moved, scored points, or could be quantified in any way, that woman would put money on it.”
A friend of Mrs. Gretzky’s who asked not to be identified because she herself might be under investigation, recalled how she and Mrs. Gretzky once bet $5,000 on the number of unpopped kernels in a bag of Orville Redenbacher Movie Theater Butter. On another occasion, the friend recalled, “we bet ten large on the over-under for the number of yellow M&Ms in a family-size pack.”
Mrs. Gretzky’s husband, Wayne, told reporters he was unaware of “any gambling activity engaged in by my wife, eh?”
Nevertheless, the hockey icon has quietly taken steps to distance himself from his wife. Mr. Gretzky flew to the winter Olympics in Torino on a separate plane, and once he arrived there, he checked into a different hotel from the one in which she was staying.
Mr. Gretzky claimed that he needed his own space in order to manage the fortunes of the Team Canada in the winter Olympics. A source close to the couple reported, however, that Mr. Gretzky did not want “to accidentally overhear” his wife placing any bets on Olympic events.
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