American Powerball Lottery Winner Sued By Pastor for $10 Million

by The INQUISITR | International

She hit the news in early 2015 after she won the North Carolina Powerball Lottery of about $188 million. Then Marie Holmes faced a stretching year ahead of her with determination.

She rose to the challenge to keep her live-in boyfriend out of jail, by bailing him out of jail with several million dollar bonds, insisting she was convinced he did not deal drugs. In total, she has spend some $21 million on the mission to keep Lamarr McDow out of jail.

But with her reportedly making a verbal promise to pay tithe on the money she won, and then reneging therefrom, a new law suit has now been instituted against her.

The litigant, Pastor Pastor Kevin Matthews of a North Carolina church claim there was a verbal exchange between him and Marie, the powerball winner known as a verbal contract reportedly worth $1.5 million, for her to buy land to act as the home of ome sort of retreat facility.

The Pastor is now suing the Power-ball winner for $10 mill, claiming that he "suffered from mental distress and emotional distress over Holmes allegedly reneging on her verbal promise over the $1.5 million Marie was reportedly supposed to give Pastor Matthews for the retreat."

Being verbal, Ruth Sheehan, lawyer to Marie Holmes, was apparently not made privy to the conversation or the lawsuit.

And Pastor Mathews said the refusal of the power-ball winner to keep her promise made him depressive and caused him emotional problems.

This time, Marie is reportedly facing a $10 million lawsuit from a pastor, no less. Pastor Kevin Matthews — a local North Carolina pastor — is allegedly suing Holmes to get a share of the $127 million that Marie took home after she decided to receive her Powerball lottery winnings in a lump sum payment.