The crazy reason this $12 million lottery winner pretended to be poor before he married

If you thought a gold-digging partner was aft your lottery money, what would you do?

Having been spurned earlier by women taking advantage of his caller wealth, a UK man went to awesome lengths to hide it erstwhile he began making love a caller woman.

When first they met, Joe Johnson wore ratty clothes, drove a heap of a car and gave his caller flame, Lisa, a cheap, unremarkable ringing for Christmas successful a bid to trial her emotion for him.

He moreover made Lisa salary nan bills, and took her connected a vacation from hellhole to a cockroach-infested apartment.

Only erstwhile nan 2 were engaged months later and Joe was satisfied that Lisa's intentions were pure, that he told her.

"I could spot he didn't person a batch of money," Lisa told nan Daily Mail, "so for him to walk what small he had connected specified a thoughtful gift was lovely. It meant nan world to maine - it still does."

The love-struck Joe divulged his concealed to his caller fiancée that he was hiding a $12 cardinal (£10 million) lottery luck he had won successful 1998.

He had turned nan triumph into a booming finance portfolio and a drawstring of luxury properties.

"It was nan only measurement I could ever show that I was genuinely loved for who I was, not because of nan money," Joe said later astir his elaborate trick.

Guess what Joe did next? He wrote a book astir his experiences.