A waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her coworkers for a share, then sued by the man who gave her the ticket, then kidnapped by her ex-husbānd whom she shot in the chest. Then she went to court against the IRS
by thepoylanthropist
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She was a Waffle House waitress.
Her coworkers claimed they had some verbal agreement to split tickets, sued her, and won at first. But then Alabama’s Supreme Court reversed it, saying the agreement was basically illegal gambling.
Then the guy who tipped her the ticket sued because she didn’t buy him a truck as she had “promised”. That went nowhere.
She put the winnings into a family LLC, which the IRS didn’t like. They hit her for over $1 million in gift taxes years later.
And then her ex kidnapped her at gunpoint. She shot him in self-defense. No charges for her.
She ended up living in Biloxi and worked as a poker dealer for a while. $10M and she moved to Biloxi.
Sounds like a typical lotto winner story
The Waffle House always has some shit going on!
She looks appropriately tired of everyone’s shit
I don’t purchase lottery tickets anymore but I always told myself that, in the event that I won, the first person I’d contact would be a lawyer. Especially in regards to staying anonymous.
Winning $10M somehow became the least interesting part.
Ex-husbãnd
Didn’t this woman’s story get spun into a Nic Cage rom-com too?
She kind of looks like Catherine Martin in silence of the lambs
Mo money mo problems
Does no tax on tips work for this???
And this is why, when you win, you tell absolutely nobodyZ
More proof that money makes you crazy
If I win the lotter I’d disappear in 6 months without a clue
If that were me I would have quietly quit and walked away and THEN start celebrating baby!
She looks like she belonged on The Sopranos
If you win the lottery, tell no one. Just disappear.
I’m a CPA and used to work at an accounting firm that handled family trusts. A lesson I learned working there is if you want to see a persons true colors, put them in a situation where money is involved. If someone is a bad person at their core, the opportunity at a cash grab will show you that. Seems like this lady was unfortunately surrounded by bad people.
What kind of cheap moron tips with a fucking lottery ticket, lol.
I would have rather just gotten a regular tip in this case.
Money grubbing parasites…
I knew a couple that won the lottery years ago, they simply disappeared from their old life, left it behind, after people started to hassle them wanting handouts.
I wonder what happened to the guy who won +900mill. That was his home take after taxes.
Edit. He won the $2 billion in powerball.
Number one thing about lottery tickets: Never share if you won.
Example #2122984 why you don’t tell anybody if you win