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David James

Kentucky man arrested for stealing $12k from a home …after winning $167.3M in a jackpot

We’ve all fantasized about what we’d do if we won the lottery. Travel the world staying at the finest hotels, buy an opulent mansion, pay off your family’s mortgages, go on a Grand Theft Auto-style crime spree, get thrown in jail…

Okay, maybe not those last two. Enter James Farthing, whose lottery dream came true on April 28 2025, when he won a $167.3 million Powerball prize. The 50-year-old Kentucky man’s $2 ticket apparently secured him a life on easy street, with him splitting the prize with his 77-year-old mom, Linda Grizzle, and his girlfriend, Jacqueline Fightmaster (incidentally, cool name!).

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