A North Carolina pastor is filing a lawsuit against the Powerball Lottery winner Marie Holmes. The said pastor claims, the winner of $188 million jackpot lottery promised that she would give him money from her winnings, however, she reneged the said "verbal promise."
According to the Christian Post, Pastor Kevin Matthews feels distress over Marie Holmes' decision on not to give the $1.5 million promised money in order to build a retreat center. "Because of the emotional distress and mental stress they put me through, I had to start taking more medicine for anxiety and depression due to this situation," he said.
The $10 million lawsuit filed by the pastor claims, Holmes promised her "verbally" or without a contract, Inquisitr reported. According to Ruth Sheehan, Holmes' lawyer, she was not aware of Matthews' allegations. The said pastor reportedly went to Holme's house and ministered to her house.
Matthews claims he asked Holmes about considering giving money to buy a retreat land, with Holmes agreed on giving him $1.5 million. The pastor said, the retreat center is what he's been praying for years to come true.
Matthews also said he went ahead and made a number of financial commitments based on the promised donation but everything crashed when he was eventually told he would no longer be getting the money."I didn't see this coming and I think it was a third party that came along and told her not to do this," Matthews said.
Marie Holmes, 27 years old, a single mother of four children won on U.S. Powerball jackpot. Since February last year, her life has been widely publicize, along with controversies. It was reported, Holmes used $21 million from her winnings to bail out her alleged boyfriend who was imprisoned for drug dealing. According to Hello Beautiful, Holmes bailed Lamarr McDow four times costing the said amount.
Aside from t Holmes has also given $680,000 to her childhood church, Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Shallotte, North Carolina. She also created the Marie Holmes Foundation with an initial investment of $9.7 million for the benefit of charitable organizations.
