The court ordered a woman who divorced her husband after winning N1.5 billion to give her ex-husband the entire sum of money.
Denise Rossi, a woman who lives in the US, was forced to give 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, Denise won the lottery.
She kept her winnings to herself during the divorce proceedings by not disclosing them to him or the judge.
When a letter from a company that paid lottery winners was accidently delivered to Thomas’s apartment two years after their divorce, her plan went awry.
When Thomas learned that his ex-wife had won N1.5 billion in the California State Lottery and was receiving N25 million annually, he was astounded.
He filed a lawsuit against her for failing to disclose her assets to the state as well as for acting dishonestly and maliciously.
The entire lottery winnings from Denise were given to Thomas after a Los Angeles family court judge sided with him.
The judge stated that if Denise had been honest from the beginning, she would have been able to keep half of the money, but by hiding it, she forfeited her right to it.
