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$17m lotto win ruins friendship

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Mon, 05 Apr 2010 8:20a.m.

The trio won $NZ17 million

The trio won $NZ17 million

A New Zealander who shared in a $17 million Australian lottery win is locked in a legal battle with two former friends for his share of the windfall.

Former Hawke's Bay man Eugene Te Pairi chipped in for the ticket in July 2008 with Garry Garlick and Brett Pretty, the New Zealand Herald reported.

The trio won $NZ17 million and started fighting over how it was to be divided within days.

The court had frozen most of the disputed money and a civil trial will start in the Victoria Supreme Court on April 19.

NZPA

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12 Apr 2010 01:11p.m.

Grham wrote:

They could just give it to me.
Id be rich
they would be friends again
and we are all happy

12 Apr 2010 11:25a.m.

Heidi wrote:

I wonder how much they'll lose in legal fees?

05 Apr 2010 06:54p.m.

V wrote:

Three ways is they only moral option, anything else would prove that one to be morally corrupt and not worth being called human.