[1] Helen Wilkins was born in 1952 in Buckingham, Illinois and graduated from Herscher High School in 1969.
[3] In 1980 she had a divorce and moved to Las Vegas, where she worked at a grocery store and would meet Jack Nethercutt II whom she later married.
The couple operated a luxury restaurant named Boison's near the Las Vegas Strip.
[4] She became a financial contributor for the USC Trojans athletic program and donated for the Galen Center, Merle Norman Stadium, USC Trojans beach volleyball, and the Spirit of Troy marching band.
She became a major financial contributor to the Exceptional Children's Foundation (ECF) based in Culver City, California.