Only a few years ago, a guy who was fortunate enough to win the record Powerball jackpot lost one of his properties due to flames in Los Angeles.
In November 2022, Edwin Castro made waves when he purchased a ticket from a nearby gas station and won the enormous $2 billion Powerball jackpot.
When he revealed the winning lottery ticket in February 2023, the staggering sum of money he received completely altered his life.
Castro won a whopping $997.6 million in the biggest jackpot ever, making him an instantaneous near-billionaire.
He promptly began investing and spending that money, most notably on a number of houses, as you would expect. He did purchase a $3.8 million mansion in Malibu,