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Pedro Quezada of Passaic claimed he would pay his neighbor's rent after he won the $338 million Powerball drawing. But his neighbors say that never happened.

(Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger)

The Passaic man who won a $338 million Powerball jackpot took off without paying his rent and also broke a promise he made with his neighbors to pay their rent, according to a report from The Daily Mail.

After he won, Pedro Quezada, 44, told the neighbors on his block that he’d pay their rent for a month or more, the report said. But his neighbors claim he never made good on that promise.

"He got lucky and it would have been a good act to pay the rent," Serafim Ariza, 19, told MailOnline. "He promised the whole street but he never followed through."

Another neighbor, Dinora Cruz, 31, said, "He said he was going to pay for everybody’s rent but he didn’t pay for nobody. I thought we were going to have our rent paid. We were like, 'Yes, we can save some money,' but it never happened and he left and that was that."

Quezada’s landlord, Kujtim Sulejmani, isn't concerned about his neighbor's rent, though. He claims Quezada still owes him $725.

“It doesn’t get any lower than that,” Sulejmani said. “He won the lotto and then moved out. He didn’t even pay his own. Forget the rest of them.”

Quezada was the sole winner of the Powerball drawing last spring, and took $152 million as lump sum. He is currently in a court fight with his former girlfriend who wants a portion of the money.