Lottery winner sued by both her pastor and her boyfriend

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Description: A Brunswick County woman who won a $188 million Powerball jackpot is being sued by her ex-fiancé after she allegedly gave away more than $1.4 million worth of cars, clothes, and property he claims were gifts she gave to him. Marie Holmes chose to take the lump sum payment of $127 million in the February 2015 lottery drawing and was able to keep $88 million after paying taxes on her winnings. At the time she won, Holmes was living in Shallotte and dating Lamar McDow. According to a federal lawsuit McDow recently filed against Holmes, she bought a $250,000 house with her lottery winnings, and they lived there together for about a year. McDow had been arrested on heroin trafficking charges just a few months prior to the lottery drawing and was out of jail on bail awaiting trial. A series of offenses violated his pretrial release agreement, sending McDow back to jail several times. Because of his access to the significant lottery winnings, McDow’s bond amounts were extremely high: $1 million after his first arrest, $6 million after his second arrest, and $12 million after his third. He got out every time, with Holmes paying an estimated $600,000 on bail bondsmen to post his bonds. According to the lawsuit, the pair first met in 2012 when Holmes “was working at McDonald’s and living with her mother and three kids in a single-wide mobile home.” Over the course of their relationship, the couple had two children together. McDow’s lawsuit says Holmes shared her winnings with him generously, buying him a $250,000 modified Chevrolet Stingray, $100,000 worth of clothes and jewelry, and a $600,000 auto restoration business, along with other large purchases. While the titles for the Corvette and business are in Holmes’ name, McDow claims she purchased them for him.