EXCLUSIVE: $758 million Powerball winner split from partner of 15 years saying 'I'm moving on to a better life' - but he's NOT bitter and says: 'I hope she enjoys all that money.'
He could be $380 million better off right now - if only he'd gambled.
Had Richard Lord married ex-partner Mavis Wanczyk he would have shared her record-breaking $758.7 million Powerball windfall.
But as the couple ended their 15-year-relationship late last year as nothing more than boyfriend and girlfriend Lord is not entitled to a single cent.
'I could have paid off the rest of the house, taken a vacation in Europe - but that's just the way life is sometimes,' Lord, 64, told DailyMail.com with a shrug of the shoulders.
'But I'm happy for her. I certainly don't hold anything against her. I hope she enjoys all that money - she's certainly got a lot of it now.'
Hospital worker Wanczyk, 53, came forward Thursday afternoon as the winner of the Massachusetts State Lottery's Powerball jackpot.
The mother-of-two opted to collect her winnings in the form of a lump sum, meaning she will take home around $443m after taxes, according to lottery officials.
Wanczyk was keeping a low profile Friday, one day after telling a press conference that all she wanted to do was go back to her home in Chicopee, Massachusetts and get into bed.
Lord said his former partner was already feeling the strain of entering the ranks of the super-wealthy overnight, with more money than the likes of Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift.
'Right now I know she's pulling her hair out with all the harassment and the soliciting phone calls,' he told DailyMail.com.
Lord explained he never proposed because he lost '50 percent of everything' when he divorced his ex-wife prior to meeting Wanczyk, and didn't want to repeat the mistake.
'I was married for 20 years but that ended in one big headache. She got the kids, I used to have a gorgeous house and she got that too,' he explained.
'After the divorce I was left with barely enough to eat. So after all of that I wasn't in any hurry to get married again.'
Massachusetts law states that anything purchased over the course of a marriage - including a lottery ticket - counts as a marital asset to be shared in the event of a split.
