It all depends on whether the couple is still together. If they are, there is no point in arguing—they can manage the money together. However, if they are separating, it would be fair, as a sign of gratitude, for the man to give the woman a portion of the winnings since he took her money without her consent. If they were husband and wife, then without a doubt, the winnings should be split equally, as family income is considered joint property and should be fairly shared between spouses.
I bet they are separating or separated after the man won or else splitting will not be an issue to them.
I think greediness kicks on to both of them when the man told the truth while the woman demanded for a split profit. You’re right that they can simply live together and live a happy life with their money since that’s already to huge to spend for the rest of their life.
This shows how money change the perspective of each person.
I would rather prefer on breaking up rather on giving that $40M to her. I do agree into those words that she should have waited for his boyfriend to tell her about on the winning and giving her some amount on which of course we do know that most likely it will be just that a small part but since we are naturally greedy as a human then you would be asking for more and thats very normal for an individual and since both persons arent that married yet then i dont see for some arrangement about splitting up the win not until if the girl will be filing up a case about theft of that 10k?
Money could change a person instantly specially if we do speak about millions then this would be ending up on that argumentation or even ending up on file some lawsuits or whatsoever or correlation into it.