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My figuring is this: He has $157 million, 1/2 of that is profit from investment ventures and their associated calamities. Or does it?
That makes his after-taxes take from the lottery to be approximately 78.5 million after taxes. However, that number can be off.
The financial advisor says he "doubled his investment." Hurley could have only invested, say, $15 million. There was nothing to suggest he invested his entire lottery winnings, nothing to say he didn't.
If it was only $15 million, and now he has $30 million more than his original Lottery winnings after taxes, that brings the total to $142 million after taxes. Since the Federal and state tax systems love large windfalls, I'm using the guestimate of 50% going to income taxes, fees and other taxes.
That would bring his winnings to around $284 million, certainly worth widespread coverage, add in the family tragedies and his arrest... Definate noteriety.
All of which, of course is a radical and off-the-cuff guesstimate.