One of at least three houses bought by a $2 billion lottery winner has been destroyed by the Los Angeles wildfires. One other home appears safe for now and the status of the third is unknown. When he won a record-breaking $2 billion Powerball jackpot in 2023,

Edwin Castro won the Powerball lottery in early 2023. He bought homes in Malibu, Altadena and the Hollywood hills. All three were threatened by simultaneous fires, and one burned.

A historic Powerball winner has reportedly lost at least one of his multimillion-dollar homes in the wildfires burning in Southern California.