Paris Man Wins $1.2 Million Picasso Painting in Charity Raffle (opens in new tab)

Pablo Picasso paintings can be expensive. One sold at an auction in 2023 for $139.4 million. Another sold in 2015 for $179.4 million. So when Ari Hodara, a 58-year-old man from Paris, saw an opportunity to win a Picasso for the price of a $118 charity raffle ticket, he bought two. On Tuesday, forgetting the day of the drawing, he received a confusing phone call that he first thought was a phishing scam: He had won a $1.2 million painting. Read more at the link in our bio.