A man who won one of the largest lottery payments in U.S. history has filed a federal lawsuit against the mother of his child in an attempt to keep his identity concealed.
The man won a $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot earlier this year after purchasing a lottery ticket at a gas station in Lebanon, Maine. He has sued his child’s mother in U.S. District Court in Portland with a complaint that she violated a nondisclosure agreement by “directly or indirectly disclosing protected subject matter” about his winnings, court papers state.
The court papers state that the defendant in the case disclosed the information to the winner’s father and stepmother. Both the winner and the defendant in the case are identified only by pseudonyms.
If you trust a lawyer (I’d trust a lawyer with a contract far more than I’d trust family with a million dollar ticket,) you can create an llc and have them claim it on your behalf. The name of the llc is what then gets published.
You can then distribute the winnings out of that LLC into one or more that then holds the cash or, holds the big assets (like a house).
This is particularly useful for inheritances and such like. Because the contents of that llc are secret to only the people managing it in trust and the owner, there’s less ability to fight over it.