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"If you won a $28.5 million jackpot, would you tell your spouse?
When Bernice Heslop opened the paper that Sunday in 1995 and saw the six Lotto numbers, her first thought must have been: ''I can't believe it. I'm RICH!'' And then, the evidence suggests, another thought formed, something like: ``Hmmmm . . . no need to tell the hubby about this.''
It was a fateful decision that has tangled three people -- Heslop, her now ex-husband and a saloon patron with exceedingly good hearing -- in a titanic 10-year tug of war. The stinking mess recently landed on Miami-Dade Judge David Miller's docket. He is expected to set a hearing date when he returns from vacation next week.
Wife's Lotto secret costs years of grief - 10/14/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
When Bernice Heslop opened the paper that Sunday in 1995 and saw the six Lotto numbers, her first thought must have been: ''I can't believe it. I'm RICH!'' And then, the evidence suggests, another thought formed, something like: ``Hmmmm . . . no need to tell the hubby about this.''
It was a fateful decision that has tangled three people -- Heslop, her now ex-husband and a saloon patron with exceedingly good hearing -- in a titanic 10-year tug of war. The stinking mess recently landed on Miami-Dade Judge David Miller's docket. He is expected to set a hearing date when he returns from vacation next week.
Wife's Lotto secret costs years of grief - 10/14/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
