St. Ignatius High School graduate James A. Flavin died living like a pauper... Now it turns out he was worth over $3 Million Dollars.... Hmmm... Was he banging Dennis Hastert too?

James A. Flavin wore old clothes, drove a beat-up old car and lived alone in a small home he had inherited from his parents in a poor inner-city neighborhood.

When he died a year ago at age 71 with no obvious family in the picture, his fellow parishioners at St. Adrian’s Catholic Church in Marquette Park came together to give him a proper funeral and burial.

I wrote a column about it headlined “Requiem for a Quiet Man.” The point, I guess, was that this unassuming individual whose life had seemed to mysteriously veer off course as a young adult had nonetheless left his mark through his simple devotion to the church.

What I didn’t know at the time, what even his few old friends can still hardly imagine, is that Flavin died a fairly wealthy man.

A safe deposit box discovered months after Flavin’s death turned up an extensive portfolio of stocks and other investments that pushed the estimated value of his estate above $3.4 million.

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