K irk West didn’t look like a man trying to slip out of town unnoticed. Dressed in a $350 black-and-gold Versace-style shirt with a dragon perched on a champagne bottle on the back, the six-foot-six entrepreneur carried himself with the same air of confidence he’s projected for years. Yet, as the 58-year-old moved through Nashville International Airport on July 24, his life was about to implode.

His downfall had begun weeks earlier, triggered by the discovery of an affair. Nancy Jones — the 78-year-old widow of country legend George Jones — threw him out of the contemporary European-style mansion they shared after she suspected him of cheating. The infidelity soon revealed a deeper betrayal: a stockpile of $400,000 in cash and a ledger containing $11.6 million in cryptocurrency missin

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