We’ve all fantasized about what we’d do if we won the lottery. Travel the world staying at the finest hotels, buy an opulent mansion, pay off your family’s mortgages, go on a Grand Theft Auto-style crime spree, get thrown in jail…
Okay, maybe not those last two. Enter James Farthing, whose lottery dream came true on April 28 2025, when he won a $167.3 million Powerball prize. The 50-year-old Kentucky man’s $2 ticket apparently secured him a life on easy street, with him splitting the prize with his 77-year-old mom, Linda Grizzle, and his girlfriend, Jacqueline Fightmaster (incidentally, cool name!).
Now, less than a year later, it’s all fallen apart for Farthing. Cops allege that over the weekend, Farthing smashed his way into a Lexington home and swiped $12,000 in cash, before hopping into his black Porsche and speeding away. Cops spotted him casually smoking a joint while driving and pulled him over, and he was soon behind bars…