A few days before the draw, Jean-Guy Lavigueur lost his wallet, which was given back to him by a good Samaritan, 28-year-old William Murphy,[2] from Vancouver, British Columbia, who had recently moved to Montreal, and was himself unemployed.
The new millionaires were Jean-Guy, Sylvie, Yve and Michel Lavigueur, Jean-Marie Daudelin, and William Murphy, with whom the family agreed to share the jackpot.
In 1986, Louise Lavigueur, the only member of the family who did not take part in the purchase of the ticket, sued her father to get a share of the jackpot.
[needs update] Yve published a book in 2000 about the family's story and helped with the production of a 6-episode TV series which was broadcast by SRC, the French-language branch of the CBC, in 2008.
From 1986 to 1989, the humour magazine Croc published a monthly satirical comic titled Les Ravibreur, which showed the newly famous family and depicted them as simple-minded, uneducated people.