A woman who won a lottery was forced to give the entire jackpot to her husband

A woman who won a staggering USD 1. 3 million in the lottery was forced to give the entire jackpot to her husband after hiding it in their divorce.

Denise Rossi filed for divorce from her husband, Thomas Rossi, on 28 December, 1996, after 25 years of marriage. Just 11 days earlier, though, Denise had won big.

In fact, she’d picked up USD 1. 3 million — about USD 3 million today — in a California lottery, after splitting the USD 6.

6 million bounty with co-workers with whom she’d bought the ticket. Thomas didn’t find out about the huge win until two years after their divorce.

The ex-husband obtained an injunction and took Denise to court, where a judge ruled she had violated laws disclosure of assets and funds and acted in fraud or malice. Denise, then 49, was ordered to pay her ex-husband, then 65, 20 annual instalments of USD 66800, amounting to the value of the full lottery win