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Co-workers settle dispute over Megabucks jackpot
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
A pair of Houston co-workers settled a lawsuit over the rights to a $12.7 million Megabucks jackpot won at the Aria nearly a year ago for an confidential amount.
Michael Griffin III, a Houston-based attorney for William Perrin, said in an email Thursday the case had been settled.
Perrin sued Diana Walker in Harris County District Court in February after the woman came to Las Vegas in January and won the $12.7 million Megabucks slot machine jackpot.
In the lawsuit, Perrin claimed he told Walker about Megabucks and provided her with information on the gambling system that links slot machines in casinos statewide to amass multimillion-dollar jackpots.
Perrin claimed he gave Walker $6 to gamble on Megabucks, taught her how to play the slot machine, and, with a sticky note, "memorialized" an agreement to split any winnings.
Perrin's attorneys cited Texas law showing that a partnership was formed when the two parties simply agreed to split any money won on the slot machine.
Neither Aria, which is operated by MGM Resorts International, nor International Game Technology, which runs the Megabucks system, were named in the lawsuit.
Contact reporter Howard Stutz at hstutz@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3871. Follow @howardstutz on Twitter.
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Why did this dumb girl tell him she won?? What a fool.
if you are drunk and gambling, you should have a right to sue for a reimbursement .
That little sticky note contract is what gave him a legal right to a share . He got his agreement on paper good for him .
Slimy lawyers are the norm, the House and Senate are loaded with them.
This guy doesn't deserve anything. I guess it shows it pays to sue in this country.
John Brandt, I think he never came to LV. I think he taught her about the machine while in Texas and gave her the money to use when she came to LV. I think he instructed her how to identify the megabucks machines, and likely instructed her to play multiple lines, when she located the machines on the casino floor.
We should have a law that those who teach for a payback must pay the state back a fee for teaching gambline tips, and a 10% tax on their winnings if they should get lucky!
If he "gave her" the money, he is only entitled to a teaching fee and not any kind of a lions share of the prize. Why didn't he just put the money in himself to teach her? Something here 'doesnt pass the smell test~