Wife Divorces Husband After Winning N1.5 Billion Lottery – Gets Order From Court
Denise Rossi, an American wife, had to pay her ex-husband her N1.5 billion lottery winning after she withheld it from him during their divorce.
11 days before she divorced her husband of 25 years, Thomas Rossi, the woman won the jackpot. In order to preserve her earnings to herself, she kept them a secret from both him and the court.
When a letter from a company that compensated lottery winners was inadvertently delivered to Thomas’s apartment two years after their breakup, her plan went awry.
Thomas was stunned to learn that his ex-wife had won N1.5 billion in the California State Lottery and had been receiving N25 million every year.
He sued her for violating the state’s asset disclosure laws and for acting fraudulently and maliciously.
Wife Divorces Husband After Winning N1.5 Billion Lottery
A Los Angeles family court judge agreed with Thomas and awarded him all of Denise’s lottery money.
The judge said that Denise could have kept half of the money if she had been honest from the start, but she lost her right to it by concealing it.