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$2 Billion Lottery Winner Plunks Down $25 Million for Mansion

CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

The spread in the Hollywood Hills has a game room, movie theater, and wine cellar.

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The winner of the $2 billion Powerball jackpot is already splashing out. The Los Angeles Times reports that Edwin Castro has bought a luxury home in the Hollywood Hills for $25.5 million. The five-bedroom spread is newly built and comes with a game room, a movie theater, a wine cellar and wet bar, a gym, a cold plunge pool, and a sauna. Castro came forward last month as the winner of the huge lottery, saying only that he was “shocked and ecstatic” at his good fortune.

Read it at Los Angeles Times