Billion-Dollar Lotto Winner’s Parents Turn Against Him Amid Ugly Dispute
A lottery winner who hit a billion-dollar jackpot sued his daughter’s mom for spilling to his family about his newfound wealth. And now his own dad is accusing him of lying about promising to help his family out with the funds.
“I told him… ‘You are not the son I knew,’” the winner’s father, a retired police chief in his 70s, wrote in a sworn declaration filed Friday in Portland, Maine federal court and obtained by The Daily Beast. “He got angry, calling me a ‘dictator’ and an ‘asshole.’ I have not heard from my son since, and he has not done any of [the] things he promised.”
The recipient of the fourth-largest lottery payout in U.S. history won a $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot last year after purchasing the winning ticket at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine. “John Doe,” who has never been identified, opted to receive his money in a lump-sum payment of $723,564,144, or roughly $500 million after taxes.