My ex sued me from prison over my $188million Powerball lottery jackpot – but his claims were all wrong

A LOTTERY winner has been sued by her incarcerated former fiancé after she spent much of the jackpot bailing him out of jail.

North Carolina resident Marie Holmes won $188million after buying a Powerball ticket in 2015.

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The money was life-changing for the single mother of four, the Washington Post reported.

Before winning, she was living in a trailer with her mother and was unemployed after quitting her job at McDonald’s to care for her kids, one of whom has cerebral palsy.

Holmes opted for the lump-sum option and brought home $88million after taxes.

In addition to spending lavishly on her blood relatives, Holmes made extravagant purchases for her then-fiancé Lamarr Andre McDow.

Her gifts to him included an auto restoration business, a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, and 77acres of land.

In addition to buying a $250,000 home which the couple lived in for a year together, Holmes paid $21million to bail McDow out of jail on several occasions.

But in 2016, he was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a single count of selling heroin.

The couple’s relationship ended the next year, which is when McDow found out Holmes had given away the gifts.

In 2021, McDow’s attorneys sued his ex, claiming she “failed to act openly, fairly and honestly by secretly giving away” what they considered to be his personal property.

But Holmes’ lawyers countered that the property worth $1.4million didn’t actually belong to McDow, since it was all in his ex’s name.

“This case is the embodiment of the phrase ‘what’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own,’” Holmes’ attorneys said in a memo.

“The problem here, however, is that McDow has nothing of his own.”

The case was ultimately dismissed, the Daily Beast reported.

Holmes had a one in 175million chance of winning her jackpot.

McDow could be released from prison at some point this year.