Brad and Margaret Jennings welcomed their first-born son into the world on March 15, 1959. Brad was extremely proud of Victor and took him everywhere to show him off.
As Victor was growing up, he was spoiled rotten by both parents, but especially his father. Victor was the heir apparent to the fortune his father had inherited from his father who became rich selling items to the government during World War II.
Victor learned early in life how to get what he wanted and he didn’t care how he got it. He cheated and connived everyone he could, including his younger brother Raymond. When the boys were children, they were close, but Victor didn’t want his father and mother to love anyone but himself. Margaret favored Raymond, and Victor didn’t like it. By the time he graduated, he had no real ties, except to his father, who never gave up on Victor.
When Brad learned he was dying of cancer, he made out his will so that Victor inherited everything, included the family heirloom: a music box that had been bestowed upon his father from Franklin Delano Roosevelt and inscribed with the initials FDR. Margaret had always assumed the music box would go to Raymond, and the revelation forced the family even further apart.
Victor had to hire an attorney when he was accused of getting some college girls drunk and then raping them. His attorney, Thomas J.Eldon III, took care of it and no charges were ever filed.
Victor was a literary agent, and hiring Thomas J. Eldon III as his attorney turned out to a blessing because Eldon talked too much and told Victor the names of some of his clients. Among the names dropped were Michael and Samantha Hawke, also known as Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood. Victor contacted them and offered his services as a literary agent. Victor had become quite the extortionist during the years and had blackmailed a lot of people making himself very wealthy.
The FBI was on his trail, though, when they had complaints from other victims of Victors. FBI agents met with the Hawke’s and convinced them to let them set up a sting operation to nail Victor. It worked, and Victor was arrested and put under house arrest. He was awaiting trial for extortion, when his body was found in his home.
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