Man wins €1m Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle

"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the winner asked when he answered a video call from Christie's auction house in Paris.

Raffle winner left stunned after scooping a $1m Picasso with a $117 ticket

PARIS (AP) -- A Parisian man could not believe his luck on Tuesday when he found out he'd won a Pablo Picasso painting worth $1 million with a $117 raffle ticket. "How do I check that it's not a hoax?" said Ari Hodara, 58, after organizers called him following the draw at Christie's auction house in the French capital. Hodara described himself as an art amateur fond of Picasso and said he bought his ticket over the weekend after finding out about the charity raffle by chance during a meal in a r

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