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Woman Who Secretly Won Lottery & Filed for Divorce Has to Give Up Jackpot

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0:00 because the judge didn't like this the judge ordered her to give 100 of the laundry Wings a hundred crazy [Music] you know I thought this lady was kind of clever it didn't work out for her but there was this woman who filed for divorce and hid lottery winnings from her husband and is now forced to hand over the jackpot oh I heard there was a there was a documentary out about people who win the lottery and so many people just get completely ████ over by their family yeah it's a lottery person and you're like oh my God I had no idea it was that it's almost every time yeah yeah there's a high almost every right suicide rate there's like it's the someone kidnapped her granddaughter and then they go broke on top of all yeah ah

0:50 that sucks I was just doing a podcast episode about this on my Army Nikki's podcast but then I'll tell you right we were talking about how like all the times that people have won the lottery and it's never good news in fact I had to search out good news just to like give a couple stories where it's like this person actually found someone and they invested it but otherwise it's ████ yeah because most people who are playing the lottery are already not financially responsible yeah it's like a high rate of uh correlative that's true I didn't think about it yeah I don't understand why people have to do disclose your name what's the whole what's the hole you have to pay more to not have it disclosed really well some states you don't have to oh that's that's where it is yeah that's awesome here I think you have to you have to give a little bit back to the lottery I'll give if I won the lottery I would give as much back as I need let's see but see the difference there is are will you play the lottery probably not because I'm going to is

1:40 that a challenge right I'll ████ play the lottery dude don't tell him he can't do something don't tell me I can't do it I'll ████ do it you know my dad always forget about it by tomorrow my dad always said you can't win if you don't play um and then I was like hey Dad you should buy crypto and he's like nah because I'm not trying to win and he was right he was wrong that's true man all right so this check we're gonna call it Rossi and a number of her work friends went in on a California Lottery Syndicate and their numbers came in just 11 days before her divorce papers were filed back in 96. she won 1.3 million dollars we decided that she wouldn't tell her husband Thomas about it because again this was just 11 days before yeah yeah it's only years later that the guy finds out when he gets a letter from the company that pays out a lump sum to lottery winners it was addressed to

2:31 Denise of a Rossi and said that the company helped hundreds of lottery winners like you around the country receive a lump sum payment for the present value of their future annual Lottery payments damn they totally just ratted around you can either choose to get them in installments which gives you more money over time or you take a lump sum which is way less of it which is the smarter way and you can YOLO it though you said lump sum is smarter no because you're you're not going to be able to overcome your own urges it's better to have it come in little by little obviously but then how do you still lump Summit how do you YOLO it if you don't get a lump subject but that's the whole point the people that YOLO would get ████ because we already don't have discipline it's so hard but you know the fear about taking installments have you heard of it what so like let's say you choose the installments thing what stops them from sending someone to just ████ kill you Jesus Oh the lottery company yeah dude

3:23 Ryan's kind of dark because then they don't it's kind of not right do you know you know the installments thing can't be passed on to another person right really yeah if you do have discipline uh though the lump sump is better just by in taxes if you look at it that way and then over time and inflation you lose value for how much money you're getting so like by the 10th year or whatever it's not worth the same amount that you had before dude I think I'm only getting two million a year I think Bart's wrong about the the lumps the human psychology wise I don't think most people are strong enough yeah but well that's why there's a lot of your curves I mean you have the statistics already that tell you the truth yeah and it's right it is true so what if like I don't know if this works but like let's say your lottery winners technically you're a Millionaire right on paper then can you not buy that amount in life insurance where the benefactor is your significant other and so if they do kill

4:13 you if they kill you then they they that's have the money it seems like to Ryan's point you know that are you buying lottery tickets well I think that's that's a that's an idea that a lottery winner probably doesn't have that's what I'm saying people who actually play don't already have these like do so intellectual thoughts about Finance they do so little investment around themselves after this happens and it's like it's YOLO people that play and the people that DCA don't play Anderson exactly exactly they're such trash people that the people around them often try to kill them I'm not yeah that was the biggest thing that I uncovered doing all the research for this thing I had no idea people around them are are hella Mercury dude yeah they're gonna kill you crazy everyone everyone comes out for handouts yeah yeah you can't just give me a million dollars is the UFC fighters one-liners but he

5:03 was on Joe Rogan and so he came from like a super like poor Hood in Houston and he said he's like you know multi-millionaire has Lambos and stuff like that and his Joe Rogan's like do you ever help out your family and he goes ████ no and he's like why he goes one time I bought my cousin a car and he sold it to buy drugs he's like ████ that I ain't ever helping him I'm like oh ████ I feel like crazy stories yeah and the people would always as soon as he made his first money everyone said help me help me help me help me please please please and then everyone that he has helped has all backfired exactly yeah when it doesn't it doesn't actually help anybody really yeah right because everyone needs to help themselves I mean that's that's why I'm glad there's statistics behind this because you it's not just like a oh speculating on no people's lives get ████ up from Lotto yeah but the people that would should read the statistics don't yeah and they played Lotto yeah so what if we just played the lotto more we

5:55 need to DCA the lotto buy a ticket every day then we have we're way more likely to win 300 times likely there's people that win it twice yeah isn't that crazy and then they lose it positions who hack the ████ City yeah there's there's math people we gotta find some mathematicians there's a movie right now out about a couple that um I think it's the Indiana or Illinois Lottery but he's the the he was a mathematician and he figured out like a flaw yeah him and his wife go around just like making a lot of that lottery cash and help their town and ████ and whatever so in this situation the court heard that uh Denise Rossi got the actual check sent to her mom's house withholding the information from her husband and I of course the divorce court which is a huge thing you can do oops she said that she wanted to get out of the relationship for years but her husband Thomas argued that he'd been

6:45 blindsided and was left confused by what happened uh quote she wanted me to move out of the house very fast it wasn't like her to act this way because you know imagine winning the lottery and suddenly be like oh yeah we gotta hurry up this divorce okay I'll get out yeah yeah so he secures it and just happened for a long time he secures an injunction bless you takes her to court uh where it's ruled that she violate violated laws around the disclosure of assets and funds before the divorce acting in fraud or malice and uh because the judge didn't like this the judge ordered her to give 100 of the laundry Wings a hundred crazy I'll cut on her side what the ████ I'm kind of on his side I'm kind of on her side dude what the 100 that's wild the lawyer sick the lawyer her lawyer even said that she'd have had a chance of keeping some of it if she'd only told

7:35 them about it before quote I could have argued successfully that it was her separate property or we could have argued and we would have reached some adjustments but the judge got mad it gave it all to him this is like how you punish siblings that don't share food or something yeah I didn't think this could happen in actual litigation but it's clear ill intense so it makes sense like how the judge was like well on the base of morality right it's ill intense she wanted to keep it away so you don't deserve any of it dude if you've tried to ████ the state over they they're gonna ████ you so hard and there's probably an assumption that the divorce was just maybe like a falling out of the relationship versus like malice on one side like you know what I mean but she was already gonna divorce him though right who knows thing yeah but still the idea it could be a no-fault state where it just doesn't matter whatever it is you just divorce dude that judge is

8:30 that's when she commits murder if I was her I would commit murder I think that was my that's my next one if I was her I'd kill that guy at the same time though I think that dude that dude's a ████ yeah oh wait there's you had a million dollars like me and Geo got divorced I might take everything I'm rebuilding I don't give a ████ yeah kind of right I'm starting from scratch and I will ████ ████ I'll ████ on you I will ████ on you I'll ████ kill you every ████ thing but there's a law in the divorce court where you're supposed to disclose all of your assets so that you yeah so what I'm saying what I'm saying is and she's imagined Geo specifically code yeah and then the street code he's saying that before it even gets to that I think I think legally it should have been 50 50 whatever but if you find out after the fact it's like ████ it dude what street code is I'm gonna be

9:20 homeless you take everything I live in a tent I'll build it all back ████ ████ you ████ yeah that's really good because honestly when you get divorced you'll be able to work more anyway you have way more exactly yeah like you're gonna spend quality time you just spend all your time working and stuff he's in a tent she's in a mansion sometimes you ever do you ever just fantasize being by yourself sometimes and just like just be myself this sounds like a slippery I just like the idea of him being at actual legal hearing going oh ████ ████ on you I'm gonna destroy you I'm gonna make so much money now some say the biggest haters are your biggest fans it works out here take everything and then she's like this is just your phone you're like yeah this is everything you know the pictures on here how many

10:10 members I got on here how am I gonna feel myself working out yeah say it is pretty good that's pretty wild but that is crazy too that you're willing to relinquish 100 I do think though like before you're a ████ if you can't manage thing right people think people think it's all the ████ time a thousand bucks a month what makes you think you're gonna manage Millions yeah that's true like if you can't even manage small batches of cash like you're gonna ████ it all I think I think so much money you can't run out a million is so much money you can't run out yeah in their brains yeah yeah yeah I already spend that ████ so fast the hardest part is you lose that ████ so fast yes sir yes sir like the odds that a Lotto winner will have a healthy Social Circle is asking too much too oh yeah that's too much of

11:01 an ass especially scratchers if it's scratchers it's over for you oh dude and if that's the most interesting thing that has ever happened in your life all your new friends you make that's what you're open with yeah right right and then so now you how do you know people are your real friends you know right laughs [Music]

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