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Husband Vanishes with Lottery Prize10 May 2001KENTUCKY – May 10, 2001 – As reported by the Lexington Herald Leader; " A Floyd County woman yesterday obtained a court order to stop her husband from spending a $250,000 prize he won Monday on a Kentucky Lottery ticket, but the order may have come too late. "`My husband has took off with the ticket and has abandoned me,' Dotty Duncan, 62, of Harold, said in a sworn statement filed in Floyd Circuit Court. "Ned Pillersdorf, a Prestonsburg attorney representing Dotty Duncan, said lottery officials told him that Gary Lee Duncan, 62, showed up about 9 a.m. yesterday with the scratch-off ticket. He left with a check, minus taxes, for $170,000, made out to `bearer.' "Pillersdorf said his client has not seen her husband since Monday and learned yesterday about the winning ticket, which Gary Duncan bought Monday at J&B Liquors in Harold.. "…Dotty Duncan, who said in an interview last night that she is legally blind and relies on disability for income, said she also filed for divorce yesterday after 13 years of marriage. "Floyd Circuit Judge Julie Paxton yesterday issued a temporary injunction, ordering state lottery officials to withhold any money that Duncan or his wife may receive, and restraining Gary Duncan from spending any of it…" |