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Jamie Gold Sued For $6 Million -Bruce Crispin Leyser seeks 50 percent of the champions winnings. August 22, 2006 - by Jim Griffin

 

It has been shown many times that lottery winners usually go broke after just a few years. It looks like this years 2006 WSOP Main event winner Jamie Gold may have already lost half of the $12,000,000 he won just a week ago.

 

The Las Vegas Sun reported yesterday that a man named Bruce Crispin Leyser filed a lawsuit in Las Vegas District Court seeking half of Gold?s first place winnings.

 

Today $6,000,000 of the prize pool was ordered to be held by a US District Court Judge to be held until this matter is settled legally.

 

The suit alleges that Jamie Gold and Crispin Leyser were hired by Bodog.com to recruit celebrities to wear Bodog gear while playing the tournament. Both Gold and Leyser work in the television entertaining industry and were good candidates to fill this roll with Bodog.  Gold being the more experienced pro decided to play the tournament representing both himself and Leyser.

 

Leyser has a voice mail audio which confirms Jamie Gold did agree to split the prize pool.

 

We will keep you updated as this story develops further.

 

Update: Gold releases statement regarding the lawsuit.

 

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