Powerball winner Edwin Castro wins court battle over $2billion fortune

Billionaire lottery victor Edwin Castro gets to support his jackpot aft a judge threw retired nan suit from a man who accused him of stealing nan winning ticket.

Jose Rivera, 43, claimed that nan $2 cardinal jackpot that Edwin Castro, 31, won successful November 2022 was his and that Castro had stolen his ticket.

A Los Angeles County Judge dismissed nan lawsuit connected September 30 because Rivera did not person nan summons successful his possession.

'Players are solely responsible for securing their Tickets against theft, loss, damage, aliases destruction,' nan judge said successful documents obtained by TMZ.

'The personification successful possession of a winning lottery summons is nan presumptive owner/winner.' 

The judge made nan tentative ruling backmost successful August and it became last connected Tuesday because Rivera never revenge a response.

Castro took nan lump sum action aft winning $2.04 cardinal successful November 2022, which brought nan full down to $997 cardinal aft tax.

He utilized his big net to bargain a luxury location for himself, 1 for his parents, aggregate sports cars and splurged connected exotic trips.

Rivera reported to nan Pasadena Police Department that Castro 'stole' nan winning summons from him.

Police and California Lottery investigators tried to find retired if nan expected crime took place, but he has since been charged pinch filing a mendacious constabulary report.

Rivera claimed that nan summons was stolen by his erstwhile lan

dlord 'Reggie', besides known arsenic Urachi F. Romero.

Romero told The New York Post that he saw Rivera pinch nan winning summons connected November 7, nan aforesaid nighttime he claimed to acquisition it from Joe's Service Center successful Altadena, California.

He besides claimed that he later received threats from Rivera but has insisted that he didn't bargain nan summons and that he doesn't cognize Castro.

In July, the billionaire lottery victor was spotted locking lips pinch 24-year-old Payten Vincent extracurricular LA personage hotspot Nobu.

Castro deleted his societal media accounts successful nan aftermath of his record-breaking lottery scoop, but his caller compression already has 125,000 followers connected her Instagram relationship wherever she has posted selfies of herself partying pinch celebrities including rapper Flavor Flav, and DJs Cedric Gervais and Diplo.

Since he was revealed arsenic nan jackpot winner, Castro hired Terry Fahn, a media typical of Strick and Company, to thief him pinch communications and nationalist relations.

Fahn has worked pinch different high-profile clients earlier for illustration MLB prima Alex Rodriguez and various NBA players.

Before he was identified arsenic nan victor of nan largest lottery jackpot successful US history, Castro chose Fiji arsenic nan spot for his last low-profile blowout. 

He was seen pinch friends cracking into coconuts and chilling connected nan formation pinch astatine slightest six others, who apt didn't expect to salary for overmuch connected nan vacation. 

Castro reportedly returned from his excursion to Fiji to his family's three-bedroom location adjacent La Crescenta, California, but it didn't return him agelong to commencement splashing nan cash.

Castro splurged retired connected a $25million location for himself successful Hollywood Hills and a $4 cardinal Japanese-inspired location successful Altadena for his mom and dad. 

He hired bodyguards for him and his family, and began moving pinch his relative Jesse, a banker, to negociate his fortune.