Winner of $2.04bn lottery buys $25.5m house in the Hollywood Hills

Powerball prize winner Edwin Castro now has a mansion nestled among the homes of Ariana Grande and Jimmy Kimmel

Countless people ask themselves what they would do if they hit the jackpot, and the California man who took home the world’s largest ever lottery prize has now shown his answer to that age-old question.

Edwin Castro, winner of the historic $2.04bn Powerball jackpot in November, recently spent $25.5m buying a five-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion in Los Angeles’s glitzy Hollywood Hills, the real estate publication Dirt and the city’s Times newspaper first reported.