The beautiful gal pal of Powerball billionaire Edwin Castro is a self-described poet and bikini mannequin who grew up in small cities in Maine and New Hampshire, in accordance with public data.
Payten Vincent, 24, now lives in Los Angeles, the place she posts video and pictures of herself partying at high-end nightclubs and even at a record-listening occasion for rapper Kanye West.
Castro, 31, the mechanic-turned-record-breaking $2 billion Powerball winner, was seen earlier this week with Vincent on the celeb sizzling spot Nobu in Malibu. The couple had been seen kissing subsequent to a classic sports activities automotive.
Castro, who’s from California, deleted his social-media accounts after profitable the jackpot in 2022, whereas Vincent has 125,000 followers on Instagram, the place she poses with rapper Taste Flav and DJs Diplo and Cedric Gervais.
Vincent’s LinkedIn profile describes the leggy magnificence as each a meals and movie critic in addition to a screenwriter who is predicated in Beverly Hills. Public data reviewed by The Put up join her to a modest low-rise condominium block in North Hollywood.
Vincent, who describes herself as a former high-school honor pupil and athlete, has labored as a barista at Starbucks in Falmouth, Maine, in addition to a Toronto Dominion financial institution teller, in accordance with her LinkedIn profile.
She has been featured in a pink bikini and different skimpy summer season apparel on a New York Metropolis-based modeling web site — Mannequin Scouts — the place she is described as a “Author, Activist, Plant-Rescuer, Artist, Steelworker, Skier.”
Vincent, who calls herself a printed poet, options a few of her personal poetry on her weblog “Poetry by Payten.” In a brief poem entitled “Thieves and Sins,” Vincent wonders about whether or not she suits into life in Los Angeles, the place she moved final 12 months.
“My ego doesn’t slot in LA however saying it, offers grievances/ Perhaps I consider in cases/ The place I reside with sure Thieves and sins,” she writes.
Though it’s not clear when Vincent met Castro, a few of her Instagram posts from seven weeks in the past present photographs of a view of Los Angeles from a high-rise with the caption “new house new heights.” One other picture encompasses a silver Porsche, whereas a 3rd depicts Vincent standing subsequent to a pool in a white outfit.
Castro has spent lavishly since profitable his jackpot, splashing thousands and thousands of {dollars} on luxurious automobiles and mansions.
“USER!!” a commenter wrote on Instagram Thursday subsequent to a photograph of Vincent in a crop high holding a can of Joyful Dad laborious seltzer. “Ur utilizing that man trigger he gained the Powerball. U wouldn’t even look at him earlier than he gained that.”
Vincent’s on-line posts embrace a photograph of caviar and sliced steak at a Newport Seaside restaurant.
On her Instagram weblog, foodwithpayten, she features a video of a meal at Les Filles, an Italian restaurant, in Paris.
“Location would earn a 7, however there have been an unlimited quantity of bees that circled. Whereas this may be unavoidable, it made the expertise anxious,” she writes.
And in a evaluate of a meal at Nobu Virgin in Las Vegas, Vincent writes, “The steak with mushrooms was *mooah* chef’s kiss.It was cooked to absolute perfection.”
In March, a month earlier than her twenty fourth birthday — which Instagram postings present she celebrated with a raucous celebration at Tao in Los Angeles — Vincent posted a poem referred to as “Stressed Intelligence,” which hints on the vacancy of wealth and a seek for which means.
“The miserable lifetime of a stressed woman The attractive purposeless will of the world Exasperated Nihilist Explorative thinker The teachings you possibly can’t be taught wherever else Than within the wake of the speedboat Reckless intelligence Discovering a manner dancing by means of the fires A real smileSave us from the final disparity and vacancy inside our peripherals.…,” Vincent writes.
