(Bigbone, KY) As the final lawsuits are being dismissed, a large payout awaits Kentucky resident Leo Sturbgetter, the one person who wagered on Kalshi - an events prediction site - that the death of Senator Lindsey Graham would not involve gay sex. Sturbgetter will receive over 23 million dollars after taxes.
Representatives from Kalshi stress that the wager was not on the death of the Senator itself, but the nature of his death. “Kalshi does not allow participants to vote on when a person will die,” a statement from the New York-based company. “We express our condolences to the Graham family and their friends.”
Lindsey Graham’s death came suddenly last week, as the news was preoccupied with the disappearance of his fellow Senator Mitch McConnell. The soft-spoken Senator was known as a strong proponent of US policy, but his dating life was kept out of the headlines. He never married.
After the death, Kelshi faced multiple challenges on the heterosexual nature of Graham’s death. Raymond Zage, a co-owner of Grindr and a Kelshi enthusiast, was said to have presented multiple screen shots, calendars, audio recordings, fan fictions, and videos challenging the finding. “I have the smoking twink, but Kelshi refuses to pay my bet,” he said in a statement released Friday. But Kelshi pushed back, stating that Zage’s data could not be confirmed, and questioning some of Zage’s wagers on the site as well. “Mr. Zage wagered that the Senator would die of internal hemorrhage from a broken wine bottle on a Tuesday night with a 23-year-old Latino male. We question the specificity of this wager.”
Raymond Ziggler, who bet $2000 that Graham would be suffocated in a fuck pile at an orgy, says he understood the risks, and he wishes Sturbgetter well. “I knew there was a small chance… the smallest chance ever… that Lindsey wouldn’t die with a man inside him. I just didn’t see it coming.”