Woman Who Divorced Husband After Winning N1.5 billion Gets Order from Court to Give Him Everything

Woman Who Divorced Husband After Winning N1.5 billion Gets Order from Court to Give Him Everything

  • A woman who hid a N1.5 billion lottery win from her husband and divorced him after that has gotten an unfavourable court ruling
  • Her husband, fortunately, found out from a misdirected letter and sued her for it
  • The judge awarded him all the money and said the woman had acted fraudulently and maliciously

A woman in the US had to give up her N1.5 billion lottery prize to her former husband after she hid the money from him during their divorce.

The woman, Denise Rossi, won the jackpot 11 days before she filed for divorce from Thomas Rossi, her husband of 25 years.

Woman divorces husband after winning lottery
Court asks the woman to give everything to her husband. Photo credit: Getty Images
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Court rules in favour of the husband

She did not tell him or the court about her winnings and hoped to keep them for herself.

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However, her plan backfired when a letter from a company that paid lottery winners was mistakenly sent to Thomas's apartment two years after their separation.

Thomas was stunned to learn that his ex-wife had won N1.5 billion in the California State Lottery and received N25 million yearly.

He sued her for violating the state's asset disclosure laws and acting fraudulently and maliciously.

A Los Angeles family court judge agreed with Thomas and awarded him all of Denise's lottery money.

The judge said Denise could have kept half of the money if she had been honest initially, but she lost her right to it by concealing it.

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The man and his wife were said to have agreed to go their separate ways, and they approached a court to end their relationship.

According to the post on Twitter, the man's wife left the house and checked into another apartment away from her husband.

Source: Legit.ng

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Basit Jamiu (Editor) Basit Jamiu is a journalist with more than five years of experience. He is a current affairs and politics editor at Legit.ng. He holds a bachelor's degree from Ekiti State University (2018). Basit previously worked as a staff writer at Ikeja Bird (2022), Associate Editor at Prime Progress (2022), and Staff Writer at The Movee (2018). He is a 2024 Open Climate Fellow (West Africa), 2023 MTN Media Fellow, OCRP Fellow at ICIR, and Accountability Fellow at CJID. Email: basit.jamiu@corp.legit.ng.