Failed Restaurant
Copper Cart
Copper Cart
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| Copper Cart was known as a favorite eatery and known for it's prime rib. |
"Denison was a con-artist who wanted to live off her earnings and have her provide financially for his sinking restaurant businesses. He put a good front, but on their wedding night he was broke." ~ Earl Mills, Dottie's Manager
When they wed, Dorothy was earning about $250,000 a year. Denison was persuasive enough to get his wife to make a series of bad decisions. Pouring money into his failed restaurants and even sang regularly at his "third-rate" club, a move she knew would drastically reduce her standing in the show business world. But she did it anyway. Then, again, heartache entered the picture. When Dandridge's bank account had been milked dry, the marriage ended. ~ Geri Branton, Dottie's Best Friend
The Womanizer
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| Slick and Petty Denison with Beautiful Dorothy |
Friends of Dorothy say that Jack was "the most disastrous and destructive element in Dorothy's life."
Jack was handsome, smooth-talking man who reportedly jumped at the chance to woo a vulnerable heart-sick woman.
In her autobiography, Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy, she said: "Some people kill themselves with drink, others with overdoses some with a gun; a few hurl themselves in front of of trains or autos. I hurled myself in front of another white man”
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| Punk Ass Denison...even in this photo you can tell he is up to no good |
During the divorce proceedings Jack reportedly wanted half of everything she had left and allegedly cut sheets, pillow cases and other items right down the middle.
Whenever I returned from a singing engagement or a picture, Jack Denison was there. Sometimes he talked of doing a book. He knew Las Vegas very well and understood the inner workings of that notorious center. He was ambitious to make ...
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