Edwin Castro became biggest lottery winner ever, winning a $2.04 billion Powerball prize. Here's how the California fires impacted his homes.

When he won a record-breaking $2 billion Powerball jackpot in 2023, Edwin Castro began spending that money wildly, buying (among other things) a number of homes in California. Now, at least one of those is ashes, one of many victims of the wildfires burning in Los Angeles.

Powerball winner Edwin Castro’s multi-million dollar Malibu get-away was destroyed by the fiery inferno of the Palisades Fire reducing the once-luxurious digs to a pile of ash.

Fires in Los Angeles have affected many well-known and wealthy individuals. Among those impacted is Edwin Castro, a millionaire who won two billion dollars in the lottery and lost his ocean-view home in fire-ravaged Malibu.

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

Lottery winner Edwin Castro's multi-million dollar Malibu home burned down during the Los Angeles wildfire. Two years ago, Castro splurged on real estate including the $3.8 million beachfront mansion that's now a pile of ash.

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.

Following Castros $2.04 billion prize back in 2022, he had taken a trip to Fiji, expanded his car collection, and bought several Malibu homes.

Edwin Castro, the Powerball winner from November 2022, has lost his multimillion-dollar Malibu getaway to the devastating Palisades Fire.

Edwin Castro, who won a historic $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot in November, has lost his multi-million dollar Malibu home in the deadly Palisades fire. The 31-year-old's once luxurious $3.8 million beachfront home is now a pile of ashes.