on the property they were all sharing.

When MailOnline asked him about the money, Shabana intervened and said: 'We don't want to comment on this right now'.

Urooj, 46, died on July 20 last year the day after he collected the oversized check from Illinois State Lottery officials at the 7-Eleven where he bought the winning scratchcard.

Cruel death: Urooj Khan (right) poses with his lottery winnings alongside his wife Shabana Ansari (left) and his teenage daughter from an earlier marriage Jasmeen (second left)

He could not stop smiling and told the cameras he was going to use the money to pay bills, donate to St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Chicago and grow his dry-cleaning business which he had worked all his life to build up.

After taxes, the prize money amounted todid not elaborate on whether or not she watched as her husband ate it.

Legal battle: Meraj Khan (right) launched a legal battle to win custody of her late brother's 17-year-old daughter from an earlier marriage Jasmeen (center). Unidentified woman, left.

In a potential source of tension in the family, the Chicago Tribune reported that Fareedun owed the $124,000 in unpaid taxes because of a small business he owned that appears to have failed

James Pittacora, who represents Fareedun, said that Urooj had helped pay for the business and that the two men were ‘very close’.

He said: ‘They had a very good relationship, and he and his daughter are devastated’.

Relatives have told MailOnline that, in a further sign of his generous character, Urooj took Fareedun into his home when he got