Donna Campbell became suspicious of her man when he kept turning the TV off and disconnecting the telephone. A postcard about a new home purchase gave the game away.

Ms Campbell entered her husband's name and lottery numbers on Google and discovered he was hiding a group $10.2m lottery win.

She found a Florida lottery press release that named 17 airline mechanics who had hit the jackpot. They will each get £298,000 of the £5m win. She is now suing him for her share of his good luck.

"Here's a guy who for years has spent marital money on the lottery and at casinos, and he's always lost,"' said Ms Campbell's attorney.

"And now he finally wins, and he's trying to keep it from his wife. That's pretty low."'
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cheap husband !!!!

What a guy!

can she sue him?????@__@

I think he made the right choice about hiding it.

Look at her now, trying to SUE him. Woulnd't YOU hide it from some one like her?

Besides, she'd probably blow it all on useless crap. The dude seems to have done the right thing by hiding it.

If he was spending HER money on lottery tickets, then she sure deserves half. they are married, they are supposed to be partners.

Aw, c'mon.. even if she like to buy useless stuff, she's still his wife. why not share happiness ?
£298,000 is A LOT OF MONEY .




just give her £8,000



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Cant you just feel the love in this relationship?
Seriously what kind of a marriage were they in if first HE felt the need to hide a lottery win, and SHE sue's him for her share?

i wouldnt tell a women like that either, she's suing him, what kind of wife sues her husband, he probably would have told her in time, maybe he was planning something, i hope she gets nothing. either way though they have both been corrupted by money.

Shows what greed can do to a person. She'll be using her share to pay for the court fee's.

His name be Midas! Lol

If he was spending their money on the tickets in the first place, she is entitled to some winnings.

I am wondering though, this home he was buying, perhaps it was a surprise for her, if it was, it is a damned shame it has ended up like this.

She probably got annoyed after she found he was hiding it and became angry.

What would he have done if it had been reversed I wonder?

geez how was her money again oh yes because he earned and she lived off it. well isnt that special.

Totally agree actually.. though I was going to avoid saying it.
This guy chips in for the lottery with his buddy's at work while his wife is at home searching google.. and still faces losing half of it to her regardless of what was wrong with their marriage in the first place. I really hate the idea of forcing people into giving up what they earned because somebody else who hasn't done anything for themselves feels owed..

Whoa, hold on you two, you don't know for sure that it was just him earning it. She may have been working too and they had a joint bank account.

and whom bought the said ticket. what is that oh yes it was him

But if it were joint money, it is a joint ticket.......

So if she buys goods with their money he wouldn't consider these goods half his?

Marriage is supposed to be a joint partnership, not getting things and hiding them all, which is what he did with the ticket. It was a shame he was not honest.

This, of course, does not stand, if the home he was buying was a surprise for her that they could both live in.

who knows... maybe he wasn't happy in his marriage and maybe wanted to leave her soon. he just got lucky winning the lotto and he could've started a new life with that money too.

well, even if its all his money, but they are still married. why married if you not honest with your wife ? no matter how bad she is

I would just leave him and forget about the money.

Exactly. Or, no matter how bad he is for hiding it. Maybe he was worried about a fight because he was gambling-again.

I agree. If it were my partner, I'd be more peeved about the fact that he felt the need to hide something from me. Her lawyer also implied he was a gambler, so it could very well be likely that she suspected he'd take off to Vegas or something and blow the cash. I say let him.

fight only happen if he loose gambling

With people who are addicted to gambling, any gambling is bad, whether they win or lose.

I may have made a few assumptions, I read a different article in the newspaper before reading it on here..

I figured the reference to her long passed occupation, and not her current occupation kinda implied that she was not working..

Also, from the article that I read, the only mention of a gambling problem was him and his buddies at work saving up to buy lottery tickets once in a while..

Still, who knows. I got my own problems

If she were a former model, perhaps she already had a "stash" of cash in their bank account. It sure would be interesting to get the full facts though.


You've got a good point there. Perhaps he had, in the past, promised her that he would no longer gamble - of course, he did and the winnings sort of put him in a catch-22 situation.

Just imagining what might have happened mind

She doesn't deserve a cent of that money.

Sad thing is... I bet we all know a couple that you can say would act the same way.

I am shocked at the number of people who say she doesn't get anything. They are MARRIED! There is supposed to be complete trust, and sharing. It's not like they were common-law or boyfriend and girlfriend.

She didn't win it, she didn't earn it, and she sure as hell doesn't deserve it! I thought marriage was about love? Must be tough being married and all, I don't think I could handle unconditionally loving someone without payment

See, that is why I never married. I ended up supporting two of my exes. I see it from the other side. If i was to marry soemone, then anything we accrued would be SHARED. If he didn't want it to be that way-DON"T GET MARRIED! Love is what attracts and binds you, but it can't keep you together. The realities of relationships intrude. And the biggest maker or breaker is money. I am not going to work my butt off keeping a clean house and raising a man's children to be poor and him have the money. What century are we in?

How do you know that the money spent on the lottery ticket in the first place was not partly hers too.

Marriage is supposed to be about love, however, why did he not tell her in the first place? Was he planning to take the winnings and run off? If this was the case, I sure hope she gets some money. After all, that question about whose money it was that bought the ticket is a mystery and it would be good to know the facts.

He should have told her, they are married, things are supposed to be shared, it is not her that is hiding the cash, it is him.

You know, I'm kind of curious...what if it was the woman who bought a ticket with her co-workers and won....how many men would say it was all hers and that she didn't have to share it with the husband?

Well, it sounds to me that they may have been having problems before he won the money...Not all married couples share and share alike...I happen to be one of the lucky ones, and would be totally pissed off if my husband won something and didn't tell me about it...Unless it was the Leg Lamp from "A Christmas Story"...Then I would tell him it's all yours...

Yes, I was wondering that too. My guess is that there would still be no sympathy for the woman whatsoever


A leg lamp?

Actually, I have talked to a few of my brother-in-law's co-workers, and they said that if their wives and them split up they would bankrupt her and themselves to prevent her from having anything, and especially to not give up full custody of the children to the mother. That just blew me away! The selfishness that they showed just excluded any well being for their children. What have we come to that people can think like this?

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The father wins this prize and puts it right in his front window so everyone can see it...The one in the movie had fishnet stockings on. I crack up everytime I see it...Little things amuse me..

Guys like to make themselves look good by sounding off like this...And to get full custody of a child from the mom, they would have to prove that she was so unfit, the kids didn't belong with her...It takes alot for a judge to give a father full custody...I've seen it happen to male friends and it just didn't work out for them....

The new house purchase sounds like he was planning on leaving her.

There was a woman who won the lottery and then left her husband, got a divorce and never told him about the winning. When he found out, he sued her and got the entire sum. She was left empty handed. It had to do with some sort of disclosure or trust law, possibly in relation to the divorce (I don't remember the details).

hmm sounds fishy on why he wouldn't tell her about something like that. There has to be more to the story.

that's .... disturbing image .. why someone created something like that ?

Wow! I wonder if it works the other way around too, in that the woman featured in this Thread could sue her husband in the same way that you have stated for the same reason? It is an identical story but the sex of the people are just reversed.

Put her in the basment for a month!

Damn woman should know her place!!

LMFAO!! thats great

All money (related to ex husbands/wives) aside..

Why exactly is it selfish of a man to not wanna give up full custody of his children to the mother?
I like nothing more than to be able to take care of my child..buy her everything she needs, make sure she has a place to live and what not..but I honestly don't know how I'd feel about it if I had to do it through the post office.. I mean yes, I'd still do it because she's my daughter, but I actually wanna be a bigger part in her life than a check in the mail.

Visiting her 4 times a month doesn't cut it for me, while there are lots of dead beat fathers who would gladly give up custody and never pay a dime if they weren't forced into doing so -- and I'd like to save the selfish title for them

If it starts to hurt her somehow in the future, then I myself will fight for full custody..at least I could give her a stable home without relying on my ex to support us.

Humph! Stick him in the basement for a month and give him nothing but bread and dripping to eat

Hi kenshinx...It was in the movie "A Christmas Story"...it became so popular that manufacturers are making these lamps and selling them...Just a very funny scene in the movie....

You didn't understand what I wrote. Would you bankrupt both yourself and your wife and leave your child living on the street rather than accept the court's decision if it was decided that the mom got custody/the child living with her? That is what was discussed. I don't see any reasoning for that. A;so in this conversation was that, even though both parents were working and they had bought a house, the house belonged to the husband, and there was no way that they would give the house up, even if it meant going bankrupt and the children having no home, they would keep fighting to keep the house and not pay the wife half of the value. Now, does that sound selfish to you? Does that sound like the children were even a consideration? Do you understand why I was shocked that these men were saying this? One guy even said he would quit his job so that he wouldn't have to pay child support if he didn't have the kids living with him. And they were serious, not joking.

The sad part of all this is that the kids are always caught in the middle...A husband and wife will battle each other, out of revenge and not take the childs feelings into consideration at all...It becomes a personal vindetta between two adults, with kids in the middle being pulled on both ends...These guys sound like they wouldn't let anything get in their way to get what they want, and if their marriage is in a sorry state they would hold this over the wife's head....Scare tactics...

It's true. And it's not all men, I've heard soem pretty sad stories aobut women, too. But, what these men said just blew me away. I couldn't believe they would deny their children a roof over their head just because they were mad at their wife for leaving them.