A LOTTO winner who scooped £11 million but lived as a hermit in Scotland has died aged 73.
Paul Maddison and his former business partner Mark Gardiner won more than £22 million in the 1995 lottery.
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Paul Maddison (left) and Mark Gardiner win more than £22 million in 1995 Credit: Alamy
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Paul Maddison died just months after his wife Evelyn died at the age of 62 earlier this year
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Paul Maddison and his ex-wife Ruth Credit: Doug Seeburg – The Sun
Paul, originally from East Sussex, moved to Perth after the couple split the money equally.
He is believed to have died on November 28, just months after his wife Evelyn died aged 62.
The former boss of a double-glazing company has moved to Perth to enjoy a quieter life after receiving his share of the £11 million fortune.
But months later his marriage to his first wife, Ruth, fell apart after she left him for another man.
The father-of-two moved into luxury six-bedroom Lettertabor Lodge and hired Evelyn McGillivary to clean it.
The couple fell in love and married on a beach in Mauritius on Valentine’s Day 1997.
Paul sold the cottage to a member of the Stagecoach family for £450,000 after forking out £10,000 to refurbish the property.
The couple then bought the 16th-century Robgill Tower near Dumfries for £650,000.
They lived in seclusion, their neighbors rarely saw them.
Locals in the nearby village of Kirtlebridge previously said they had rarely seen the couple leave the 40-acre property.
Paul also installed security cameras, remote control doors and an intercom immediately after moving in.
In 2008, the couple sold the tower for £2.8m and moved back to the Perth area.
Evelyn, a former florist, said their house was too big and it was time to downsize.
She told the Record: “It was a fantastic and very happy house, but it got too big for us.
“Sometimes we’ve moved bedrooms just for a change, but it’s really time for the next part of the dream.
“We made a big house thing.
“Now we want something more manageable.
“This house is now a lottery fantasy.
“Maybe another winner will buy it.”
Evelyn is believed to have died earlier this year after a health battle.
The publicity-shy Paul hit the headlines in 1999 after suing a small laundromat over a tea-stained silk bedspread.
A lottery winner claimed £953 in damages after a dry cleaner failed to remove a stain and left a “pink tint”.
But the store claimed that staff warned him that efforts to remove the stain were at his own risk given the lack of instructions for cleaning the bedspread.
It is not known how this legal battle ended.
Earlier this year, joint winner Mark refused to say whether he had yet spoken to Paul.
Mark still works for the double glazing company he worked for before winning and in which he invested £2m.
He was 32 when he split £11million and spent some of his winnings on a house in Barbados and bought his local football club in Hastings, East Sussex.
The 61-year-old said his secret to staying sane was continuing to work, but admitted there were things he could have done differently.
A spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: “The Procurator Fiscal received a report regarding the death of a 73-year-old man in Perth on 28 November 2023.
“After the investigation, the Procurator Fiscal concluded that no further action is necessary.
“The family has been notified.”
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