Lottery Winner Comes Forward After Divorce
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - It took Robert G. Swofford Jr. more than a month to come forward and claim his $60 million Lotto prize, but he had to take care of some unfinished business - divorcing his wife.
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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills had their chance, and now it is up to a judge to determine a divorce agreement and financial settlement for them, The Associated Press reported. As legal teams left the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Monday after no deal was reached between the parties, Mr. McCartneyâs lawyer, Nicholas Mostyn, said that Justice Hugh Bennett had reserved his ruling and would spend several weeks working out a settlement. Ms. Mills smiled as she departed. Mr. McCartney did not attend. The terms of a settlement will not become public unless it is challenged in the Court of Appeal or if one of the parties elects to disclose its contents. The couple, who separated in 2006 after four years of marriage, went to court to decide how much of Mr. McCartneyâs fortune, estimated to be as high as $1.6 billion, Ms. Mills would receive.
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Another 154 people came to the courthouse Monday for the daily drawing to see the Scott Peterson double murder trial in person. &quot;When we won the lottery to get in the courtroom, we felt like we won a million dollars,&quot; said one woman.
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More than 10 years after a bitter divorce that led him to seek bankruptcy protection, actor Burt Reynolds is embroiled in another nasty battle with his latest former girlfriend involving claims of extortion, abuse and broken promises.
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BLACKSTONE, Massachusetts - A man who retrieved a $1 million lottery ticket from the trash reached a settlement with the family of the man who claimed he accidentally threw it away.  Edward St.
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A businessman wins an appeal against a High Court ruling to pay back Â£2m he lost in one night.
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For years, Nilder Santos and his family had been hoping to win the most prized lottery in Cuba. But each time it was held, the 25-year-old dancer and his parents were heartbroken when their names didn't appear on the list of the lucky ones allowed to leave the poverty of their communist nation to chase the American dream.
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In an ironic twist of fortune, a former lottery con-man who served time for once claiming his winning million dollar ticket was stolen, hit the jackpot in one of Romania's biggest pay-off ever, officials said.
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Victims of sex crimes and abuse may be able to sue years later, after a key ruling in the "lotto rapist" case.
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His schoolteacher wife had left him and filed for divorce. A young woman he was seeing may have had second thoughts about her relationship with an older man.
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A court gave a woman the right Wednesday to claim compensation from a man who sexually assaulted her and then went on to win a lottery jackpot whilst serving a prison sentence.
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(CBS/AP) When Debi and Steve Cifelli heard they&#39;d won California&#39;s $27 million lottery jackpot, their first reaction was what you might expect.
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The Illinois Appeals Court on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit by an ex-lover of Michael Jordan that says the former basketball superstar promised her &#36;5 million to hush up their affair.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A prison guard stepped forward briefly Friday to claim her $74.5 million Powerball jackpot before dashing off in a stretch SUV limousine.  Jackie Alston, 38, had quietly celebrated her win since the Nov. 29 drawing.
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Seeking a happy ending to what began as a fairy-tale romance, a former London salesgirl has put her 140m divorce settlement from an Arab sheikh up for sale to anyone who can collect it.
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Dumped husband uses little-known Mississippi state law to win Â£750,000 over wife's affair and remarriage
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A victim of so-called Lotto rapist Iorworth Hoare is to find out whether she has won her fight for damages.