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

“I could see he didn’t have a lot of money,” Lisa told the Daily Mail, “so for him to spend what little he had on such a thoughtful gift was lovely. It meant the world to me – it still does.”

The love-struck Joe divulged his secret to his new fiancée that he was hiding a $12 million (£10 million) lottery fortune he had won in 1998.

He had turned the win into a booming investment portfolio and a string of luxury properties.

“It was the only way I could ever tell that I was truly loved for who I was, not because of the money,” Joe said later about his elaborate trick.

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