Julie Prive

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American lottery winner whose winnings were controversial and ended up in a lawsuit. She worked at a convenience store on East Falmouth, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In May 2002, she and her husband David (born in London, KY on October 18, 1974 according to their children's birth certificate) applied to lottery headquarters for their $6 million earnings from a winning scratch ticket. But in June 2002 two other people claimed the ticket was theirs and sued to get back the winnings. Raymond MacDonald, a Falmouth retiree who reportedly spends around $100 a day on scratch tickets, and Monica Hertz sued to show that the ticket was theirs, that they had bought it with a group of $10 scratch tickets on May 17, 2002. MacDonald, 65 years old at the time, claimed that he and Hertz thought the ticket was a loser and so handed it back to the clerk (Prive) for entry into a second-chance win. They claimed that she saw that it was a winner and turned it in to lottery headquarters on false premises. However, Prive claimed she found it in a pile of discarded tickets. The lottery commission paid Prive $200 a year for the three years before their trial and settlement, a sum with which the Prive family bought a house. The trial ended in a hung jury in August 2004 and the parties arrived at an undisclosed out-of-court-settlement on October 14, 2004. The Prives havetwo children, Jonathan, born 8/13/2003 at 8:20 AM in Falmouth and Ashley, 6/4/99 at 12:10 PM in Falmouth.