A lottery winner who won £148 million has finally kicked out her mooching husband after he ‘used her as a cash machine’ and squandered a fortune.
Gillian Bayford married convicted fraudster Brian Deans five years ago after initially winning a Euromillions jackpot in 2012, but has since ditched her husband after he ‘threw money left, right and centre’ on expensive cars, watches, and trips with friends.
The 51-year-old reportedly gave her husband a generous monthly allowance, but he kept blowing through it and begging her for more until she eventually booted him out of her home in Scotland.
A source told the Sun: ‘Brian saw Gillian as a cash machine, nothing more. She kept throwing money at him to try to make the marriage work.
‘She’d think nothing of giving £20,000 if he asked for it but no amount was ever enough and he wanted more and more.
‘She probably got out in the nick of time. If they had kept going the way they were they could have ended up skint.’
Deans was previously jailed in 2012 for defrauding Tesco out of £13,500 with fake customer receipts- on the same week Gillian won her life-changing jackpot alongside her previous husband Adrian.
He was said to have been living in a rundown Dundee flat at the time that they met, but later moved into her mansion and became used to living a lavish lifestyle, flashing his cash on holidays and expensive trips and letting everyone know he was paying.
Eventually, ‘besotted’ Gillian found herself forking out more and more cash to cover his expensive tastes.
‘It’s probably hard for outsiders to get their head round what happened but Gillian was head over heels in love,’ claimed the source.
‘She believed everything Brian told her.
‘All she wanted was for him to be happy and she never questioned him.
‘If he wanted money, he got it.
‘Handing over £50,000 wasn’t a big deal for her.
‘All she wanted was for her family to stay together, from what I saw.’
After finally being kicked to the curb, Deans is now reportedly running a pub in Auchterarder after being thought to have already spent everything he had from Gillian, and insists that he dumped her.
The couple also has a young daughter together, Emile, who was born during lockdown.
Speaking of her new baby Emilie, Gillian, who now runs a property firm in Dundee, told The Sun: ‘As far as she is concerned I’m not a lottery winner, I’m just Mum.
‘Some things are easier because of the money but it doesn’t really change anything. You still have to change a nappy or deal with her being sick on you regardless of how much you’re worth.’
She added: ‘She’s not dressed in designer clothes. She’s not got anything different to her brother and sister.’
‘They all need to know the value of money.’
Last year, Gillian spoke of how she no longer speaks to members of her family despite giving them £20 million and ‘bailing them out of every debt.’
She claimed that although the money was ‘supposed to make everyone happy’ all it ended up doing was causing division and making everyone ‘demanding and greedy.’
Her father allegedly tried to take control of her fortune himself, while her brother got married without telling her, despite living in a home she paid for.
‘They have lost touch with where they’ve come from,’ Gillian told The Mirror. ‘They’re rubbing people’s noses in it by flashing their cash, which I think is downright nasty.
‘I can hold my head up because I know I’ve taken them out of a situation. They brought our name into disrespect in the village and we had people threatening to torch the family house.
‘My dad and brother built up one company after another and then closed them down. I’ve bailed them out of every debt.’
Upon marrying Deans, Gillian made him sign a pre-nup which ensured he wouldn’t be entitled to any of her cash during the divorce.
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