New Jersey’s $338 million Powerball winner stiffed his neighbors and skipped out without paying his rent, it was charged Wednesday.
Pedro Quezada, of Passaic, was already being sued by his former live-in girlfriend, the mother of one of his children, for a chunk of the winnings.
But now it turns out that Quezada, 44, reneged on a promise to pay rent for all the neighbors on his block for a month or more.
Quezada was treated as a hero — before he moved out, leaving his neighbors high and dry, they said.
“He promised the whole street, but he never followed through,” neighbor Sreafim Ariza told the Daily Mail.
Quezada won one of the highest-ever Powerball jackpots last spring and took a lump sum payment of $152 million.
But he didn’t pay the $7,250 of his own rent that he owed when he left, landlord Kujtim Sulejmani said.
“It doesn’t get any lower than that,” Sulejmani told the newspaper. “He didn’t pay his own. Forget the rest of them.”
Quezada is embroiled in a legal battle with Ines Sanchez. He lived with her for 10 years and they owned a bodega together.
Sanchez reportedly moved out of a Clifton home that Quezada bought with some of his winnings. She claims that playing the lottery was a joint venture of the couple.
But Quezada maintains she isn’t entitled to any of the winnings because they were never married.