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One of the multitude of news stories (exaggerated, fictional, and occasionally real) that hit social media in the wake of the record $1.5 billion Powerball lottery jackpot (shared by three winners) in mid-January 2016 was the tale of a putative California winner who supposedly took out a loan against his forthcoming lump sum lottery payment and quickly succumbed to a cocaine overdose while surrounded by prostitutes: There was nothing to this story, however: It was just another bit of fake news from TmzWorldstar.com, a site known for publishing fantastically fictional stories (cribbed from other fake news sites) such as a report of a man's marrying a baby and an article proclaiming that Jaden Smith was planning on undergoing a penectomy for his 18th birthday. As of this writing, the California-based winner who will be sharing one-third of the record Powerball jackpot has not yet been publicly identified.
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