BOLIVIA, N.C. — A North Carolina woman who spent part of her $188 million lottery jackpot bailing her boyfriend out of jail is due to appear on a Fix My Life reality series.
Marie Holmes, who won a $188 Powerball jackpot in 2015, made headlines when she spent more than $20 million of her newfound fortune bailing her boyfriend, Lamar "Hot Sauce" McDow, out of jail on multiple occasions.
The Oprah Winfrey Network announced Holmes is slated to appear on Iyanla: Fix My Life in September. The network said Holmes recorded her interview with self-help guru Iyanla Vanzant just 48 hours before McDow was slated to report for a 10 year prison sentence after pleading guilty to drug charges.
OWN said the interview will see Vanzant attempt "to help Marie cope with her new fortune before she loses it all."
Holmes' lotto winnings have also been put to good use in the form of buying school supplies for 300 children and making a $680,000 donation to the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Brunswick County.
Thanks to MaximumMillions for the tip.
Wow, I can tell right now this is going to be a hot topic.
I think its pretty sad when a lottery winner has to appear on a program called "Fix my life".
Especially by an Oprah Winfrey production. Just more $$$ for her.
An attempt is being made .Time and effort will show the results.
Yea I'm sure Oprah will make her see the light. LOL
she could follow in her footsteps...I can see it now. "first fix my life" then an appearance on "The lottery ruined my life"
and then after that maybe she'll start her own crappy Springer Spin off.
Its pitiful. its like the universe is rewarding the crazies.
Plan your post-win life now before you win. Write down your dreams.
another one who will have her dirty laundry all over TV; can't wait for this to air.
and at that time I caught a chit storm for my original comment and not congratulating her first
should be a most curious to see how things may and not change
I never liked that Fix my life woman. She is kind of a bully and I believe she lost all of her fortune once. She stabbed Oprah in the back by agreeing to her own series with a competitor and it failed. And then Oprah forgave her and gave her a show. But I will watch...lol.
Change your name to tomato sauce and you can be her next boyfriend.
As for me, I am waiting for hot sauce to get out of prison so we can have children named apple sauce, hollandaise sauce, and the baby will be called peanut sauce.
I'm reminded of that old saying -- Ya can't fix stupid.
Hope so, for her kids sake as well.
$20 million is a ton of scratch! I just hope she has some left. I also hope they teach her how to handle whatever she has left. The TV cameras aren't a good idea, either. Attracts new "bottles of hot sauce", if you know what I mean. Fix your life without broadcasting it to the world, leave Oprah out of it!
I think prison gangs will be using the boyfriend to extort money from her, i.e., give us the cash or your bf will be seriously hurt.
This is a bad idea for her to go on this show. People will see the show and move in to take advantage of her (including Oprah). I don't like it. I feel sorry for her. Please cancel this TV appearance Marie Holmes and get advice privately. Seeking fame for revealing your problems when you have won $188M will only invite trouble. Please don't do this show.
I agree, golfer1960!
Marie, you're still mighty wealthy. So, instead of doing this intrusive show, just hire a good life organizer coach and financial planning coach. During the next 12 months, have each spend 1.5 hours per week with you face-to-face, then spend the rest of the week doing daily homework assignments from each. It will feel good to gain an understanding of your money, and enjoy spreading it around intelligently and even some whimsically for your family's joys.
she can always do Dr. Phil.
IT'S HER MONEY. She can piss-on-it if she feels like it. Helping a "loved" one is not a crime, but helping a criminal repeat offender might be considered plain stupid.
With her luck, she might even end up with her own RADIO/TV SHOW. Life is funny.
Im so glad someone is trying to help her. Hope they can reach her before it to late. With hot sauce in jail maybe she can move on. This way she can devote her time with her children. Right now this young lady should be having the time of her life with her kids.
The $3 mil bond and the $6 mil bond and about $1.5 mil in bail fees are gone forever, but the $12 mil bond she should get back since "Hot Sauce" is in the cooler now.
So, in total, she lost about $10.5 mil worth of bond money.
She also donated $680,000 to her church and gave away free backpacks and school supplies for 400 kids through the Marie Holmes foundation.
Thank goodness for this! Maybe she can talk some sense into her.
Hope she finds someone else and moves on with her life. But something tells me when this guy "hot sauce" gets out of prison, things are going to go very badly for her.
Hopefully she gains the sense to move away before Hot Sauce gets out of the fridge. She will hopefully reach for some Mild Sauce or maybe some Salsa.
The help she needs is more than just money management.
On tv to get help? C'mon ! I agree with the above comment...find sound advice privately by a trusted professional.
I'll say hello and goodbye at the same time...since you won't be here for long !
The ties that bind.
Is this about Marie Holmes "The lottery winner" or Marie Holmes "The young black female." Either way i think both could use some good advice!
I Believe it is the same Girl.... I hope she don't end up like Cynthia Stafford.
Mild Sauce? LOL!
if she indeed lost 10.5 million which i doubt on bail fees etc. she still has plenty left. actually if he didn't get jailed he would have drained even more out of her more than likely. so it was worth it to get rid of him. a lousy 10m won't make any difference in her future endeavors. she did fine and will continue to do fine.
I think all she lost was the 10% she paid the bail bondsman. If she had paid the entire amount up front she would have gotten all of it back once hotsauce showed up for his trial and sentencing phase.
Marie Holmes has quite a bit more money than Cynthia Stafford and it seems that she isn't as spendthrift either other than incurring the huge bail expense with hotsauce. With some good counseling, she will be fine as long as she listens and sticks to the financial plan they set up for her.
Also. a lottery win does not change someone and make them a better person it only magnifies their flaws.
The last thing she needs is more attention. She should just stay out of the news, off the networks, away from hot sauce
and take care of her kids. She has enough money to be a private person and also get help privately. She's still making
bad choices. Whatever she's prompted to say there will be public info, whatever she shares will be dissected and judged.
If she had done things quietly, she'd be off the radar now...but bailing out that loser wasn't quiet and won't be off the
radar for a long time. I predict more problems. Too bad because she could have had a pretty good darn life.
Why was bail set so high? Sure the guy is a <snip> but geezzzz. You'd think 100K would have covered it.
OK, they're gone faster than I thought !
no such thing as a "trusted" financial planner. they are all out for the same thing. to separate you from your money so they can get at it. some more than others, yes ,but they are not regulated by anyone which is why they get into this racket. they only steal portions of it but there is no way you can keep track of where and how much is invested or what the actual returns are. they know you would get tired of trying to keep track of it all and just let them do it. they get together in their office and cackle about charging an extra 0.25% on a particular investment "they made" and probably don't even inform you. all lawyers are liars or they wouldn't be lawyers.
faber98, These are good reasons to use www.cdars.com and ICS. ICS can be found at the bottom of the webpage of www.cdars.com ICS will cover demand deposit accounts and/or money market deposit accounts.
CDARS will insure $50,000,000.00 through CDs covered by FDIC.
You will be dealing with banks and not stock brokers or lawyers.
This way will help me control my greed. Safety instead of risk.
I plan on doing that as well.
The $50,000,000 insurance coverage is very important. Regular banks only cover $250,000. per account. What in the world would anyone do with the winnings if you leave it in the banks, et al. Good info.
LOL! Insurance is only a feel good thing. Case in point... Several years ago a major hail storm hit my area. Everyone around me had their roofs replaced due to damage. Guess I waited too long to claim. They sent the "deny guy" to my house. Said I had no damage. LOL! Same thing with FDIC. When the s hi t hits the fan, you're out of luck. Don't count on them to cover your losses. And don't buy 50 mil worth of coverage. When the bubble bursts, try to collect.
Well ok, point taken. Cannot disagree. FDIC is what I meant about the banks covering only $250,000 per account. Now that I think about it, had home insurance for 7 years without a claim then had a washer hose leak and flooded other rooms. I recall they paid a lousy $600 and increased the premiums.
My original plan of all cash will still stand. That will be hard enough to do.
LiveInGreenBay, There is www.treasurydirect.gov Many different ways to protect your winnings.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION wow//
no history
Try www.treasurydirect.gov sorry about the .com I tried it and .gov works.
lejardin, Just imagine how much you will be able to self insure after winning big. Car insurance, Home insurance, Health insurance, etc..
I would still be covered by Umbrella coverage just in case someone slips on my property.
he's right. any insurance, stock market investments, municipal bonds will turn into a scam when everyone tries to collect at the same time. it's a pyramid scheme. sure they can pay out to people as long as there aren't a multitude of claims. if california falls into the sea via an earthquake, no one will collect a nickel. if yellowstone erupts forget about filing a claim when your house is covered in 10' of soot along with hundreds of thousands of others. insurance companies spend the money you give them and have to rely on future premiums from people to keep it going. all these life insurance policies are also a high risk investment. you die and they say oh you missed one payment just before he died so we cancelled your policy. or you were late with a payment twice so that violated a fine print agreement that you probably didn't even know about but too bad. financial planners who are not regulated by anyone have volumes of excuses ready to foist on you if you try to cash out everything. it would take forever and you'd be lucky to get some in dribs and drabs from these vultures. just one of many reasons why you should play lotteries with prizes under 1m. besides having a better chance to hit one there isn't a human being or a business anywhere that you can trust to guard your money. even health insurance is a scam. about 40 years ago they wised up and starting charging deductibles that now are unaffordable while still paying premiums that are totally too high. they know not that many people even use this insurance. look at the office buildings they build with your money and all the people they hire who laugh their way out the door every payday. they get together in meetings and guffaw about how people just send us money and we don't even have a product and our premium inflow far outperforms our claim outflow. they have charts and graphs to keep track of this and never lose money. but you will. so the idiots who won't play the lottery until the prizes are 300m or more will find out along with never hitting it that there is no way you can protect that much money. you should just give most of it away to people you know or else someone will find a way to steal it.
With the majority of CD's yielding 1-1.75% depending on the time frame selected it only makes sense if you have an ungodly amount of money sitting around and have no desire to grow your wealth. No doubt it's a safe option but not a good choice for a few million dollars.
Finally she's doing something good with that $$$$$$$$ .
Why is it sad? It tells me she knows she needs the help and seeks the help from a professional that can guide her on the right path to ''FIX'' and turn her life around before it's too late.
Nothing sad about wanting to ''FIX' your life.
It would be sad if she didn't want to fix her life and continued on like David Edwards and Jack Whittikar and other lottery losers. I'm happy for her that she wants professional help.
And Iyanla Vanzant will give it to her straight and not sugarcoat one word of advice. There's nobody that can give you better advice then someone that has already been through something someone else has been through and Iyanla has been through pretty much everything Marie is going through.
If you realize you need help DO IT PRIVATELY not on some tv show.
JAMORA posted in the Discussion Forum that Marie Holmes will appear on Iylanya's show on Saturday night September 10, 2016. At 9pm PST. on the OWN network. Xfinity has it at channel 220 here in California.
I have seen some advertisements which show that there will be some other women on the same show as Marie. It looks like Marie will have to share the on time with others.
Big mistake seeking help from a show host whose only fame is being liked by queen Oprah. Seeking help in private will be much better her while keeping the hyenas at bay.