Elecia Battle (born December 15, 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio) née Elecia Dickson, made national headlines in January 2004 when she claimed that she had lost the winning ticket in the Mega Millions lottery drawing of December 30, 2003 that was worth 162 million dollars. She then filed a lawsuit against the woman who had come forward with the ticket, Rebecca Jemison. Later, when confronted with contradictory evidence, she admitted that she had lied. She was charged with filing a false police report the following day.

Battle had previously been convicted in 1998 of misusing a credit card, while working at a pharmacy in Cleveland; she served a suspended sentence for that conviction, in addition to other prior misdemeanor convictions for assault and trespassing.

After gaining notoriety for the lottery scam, Battle attempted a career as a female boxer, using the name Mega Battle Bad Girl. [1] As of February 2005, Battle has yet to fight professionally.

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