I didn't know that about the father chewing the food for the baby...check this story out...the clincher is the last paragraph...I remember when he was interviewed right after he claimed his prize & he said he wasn't married...lol...and it's London, Ontario...
Truce in $30M jackpot war
Dec. 22, 2005. 06:23 AM
DALE BRAZAO
STAFF REPORTER
LONDON, Ont.—He says he has been stalked, assaulted and embarrassed by a manipulative ex-wife, who will stop at nothing to get her hands on half the $30 million jackpot he won in the Super 7 lottery.
And Raymond Sobeski says he has the scar to prove the diminutive Nynna Ionson used to beat him up.
She claims he's the abuser and a liar to boot, who delayed picking up the biggest individual jackpot in Canadian history for a year so he could scheme to cut her out of her rightful share.
Yesterday, the former stripper and mother of four asked a judge to award her $9,000 a month in interim spousal support and an immediate payment of $262,000 to help cover her legal costs as she battles her ex for her share of the winnings he pocketed in April 2004.
But before the judge could rule on the motion, the two sides emerged from behind closed courtroom doors to announce they had reached a settlement of sorts, but the details would remain confidential.
"We have a truce in a love war," Ionson's lawyer, Alfred Mamo, told reporters of the out-of-court settlement.
In short, Ionson, 44, got something that will allow her to continue to pursue Sobeski, 49, for her share of the pot — some $17 million of which has been previously frozen by the courts pending the outcome of her lawsuit.
"I want a hot chocolate," Ionson said as she left court.
"I'm taking my kids to the Caribbean for Christmas and I'm taking them snowboarding after that," Sobeski said of his two children from a previous marriage.
"If I wasn't pleased, I wouldn't agree. This is a private matter," he said, before driving off in an old Chevy Cavalier.
The court papers filed by both sides in preparation for yesterday's hearing pointed to an all-out war of epic proportions.
"I am physically and psychologically unable to work and cannot support myself and my children," Nynna Ionson said in her motion for $9,000 in monthly support. "My physical, emotional and psychological problems are directly related to my relationship with Ray and our marriage. The marriage breakdown has left me destitute."
Sobeski replies in court documents that photographs showing Ionson horseback riding and her claims they would sometimes have sex several times a night belie her claim to a physical impairment to work.
Ionson, who has been on welfare and lives in subsidized housing, could and should return to the job she had when the two met back in 1994 at a Woodstock area bar, Sobeski says.
"She is entirely employable and capable of supporting herself, but chooses not to. For many years, (Ionson) sustained a very lucrative profession as an exotic dancer and is well able to support herself at a very comfortable level by returning to the vocation."
Then it gets real nasty, with claims and counter-claims of assault and other abusive behaviour. At one point, Sobeski had police charge Ionson with assault, but she was never convicted. She in turn told doctors at an area hospital where she went for treatment that Sobeski had shoved her into a door frame during an argument.
"Nynna has a terrible temper and often acts out physically. I have the scar to prove it," Sobeski says of Ionson, whom he married in 1998 and divorced in February 2004, two months before he picked up his winnings.
Ionson was the third marriage for the one-time computer programmer, one apparently marred by physical battles.
"When I answered the door, Nynna immediately began to attack me, shouting obscenities at me in front of my children and smashing furniture," he says of one alleged incident in 1999.
"I ended up with many bruises and a black eye."
Ionson still loves Sobeski very much, and remains hopeful of a reconciliation sometime in the future, her lawyer, Mamo, told reporters.
"Although I know that others may find this hard to believe, over the 18 months I continued to harbour the hope and belief that Ray would be coming back to me and we would resume our conjugal relationship," Ionson says in her motion documents.
Despite living apart, the couple did vacation together, and he took her to dinners and bought her clothes and gifts. Among the exhibits Ionson has provided to the court are photographs of the couple and their children doing family-type things.
The two also did adult-type things together, including a date to the Everything To Do With Sex Show at Toronto's Exhibition Place, where Sobeski bought Ionson a souvenir mug, and an outing to an unspecified nudist resort's Halloween party.
Sobeski says the $30 million has brought him misery, not happiness. He's had to sell his farm and can't go anywhere in southern Ontario without people staring at him or whispering behind his back.
To back her claims that despite the turmoil, Sobeski treated her like his wife in every way, Ionson produced birthday and anniversary cards, poems and transcripts of telephone messages, in which he pronounces his undying love for her.
"Love is two people made from the same piece of life," says one greeting card he sent her.
"You're my everything. Nothing else matters.... If you need money, honey, all you do is ask," Sobeski says in one phone message left in August 2001.
For his part, Sobeski claims he was tricked into marrying Ionson, who reneged on a deal to sign a prenuptial agreement, in effect ending the romance. The marriage, as such, was over then, but the relationship continued on as a "purely sexual arrangement," he says.
Sobeski met Ionson on Dec. 10, 1994, and the two were married four years later. The couple separated in December 2002. On April 12, 2003, Sobeski purchased a Super 7 ticket and learned he had won $30 million, but he made no move to pick up his winnings.
In November 2003, he began divorce proceedings. The divorce was granted Feb 10, 2004.
Less than two months later, on April Fool's Day, Sobeski showed up at the lottery office in Toronto, telling reporters there was no "significant other" in his life at the time.
That same night, Sobeski took Ionson to the Quality Inn in Woodstock for a night of sex, without disclosing he was $30 million richer. He left the next day for Calgary, telling Ionson he didn't want to waste a ski pass that was about to expire.
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