The gorgeous gal pal of Powerball billionaire Edwin Castro is a self-described poet and bikini model who grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire, according to public records.
Payten Vincent, 24, now lives in Los Angeles, where she posts video and images of herself partying at high-end nightclubs and even at a record-listening event for rapper Kanye West.
Castro, 31, the mechanic-turned-record-breaking $2 billion Powerball winner, was seen earlier this week with Vincent at the celebrity hot spot Nobu in Malibu. The couple were seen kissing next to a vintage sports car.
Castro, who is from California, deleted his social-media accounts after winning the jackpot in 2022, while Vincent has 125,000 followers on Instagram, where she poses with rapper Flavor Flav and DJs Diplo and Cedric Gervais.
Vincent’s LinkedIn profile describes the leggy beauty as both a food and film critic as well as a screenwriter who is based in Beverly Hills. Public records reviewed by The Post connect her to a modest low-rise apartment block in North Hollywood.
Vincent, who describes herself as a former high-school honor student and athlete, has worked as a barista at Starbucks in Falmouth, Maine, as well as a Toronto Dominion bank teller, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She has been featured in a red bikini and other skimpy summer attire on a New York City-based modeling website — Model Scouts — where she is described as a “Writer, Activist, Plant-Rescuer, Artist, Steelworker, Skier.”
Vincent, who calls herself a published poet, features some of her own poetry on her blog “Poetry by Payten.” In a short poem entitled “Thieves and Sins,” Vincent wonders about whether she fits into life in Los Angeles, where she moved last year.
“My ego doesn’t fit in LA but saying it, gives grievances/ Maybe I believe in instances/ Where I live with certain Thieves and sins,” she writes.
Although it’s not clear when Vincent met Castro, some of her Instagram posts from seven weeks ago show images of a view of Los Angeles from a high-rise with the caption “new home new heights.” Another photo features a silver Porsche, while a third depicts Vincent standing next to a pool in a white outfit.
Castro has spent lavishly since winning his jackpot, splashing millions of dollars on luxury vehicles and mansions.
“USER!!” a commenter wrote on Instagram Thursday next to a photo of Vincent in a crop top holding a can of Happy Dad hard seltzer. “Ur using that guy cause he won the Powerball. U wouldn’t even glance at him before he won that.”
Vincent’s online posts include a photo of caviar and sliced steak at a Newport Beach restaurant.
On her Instagram blog, foodwithpayten, she includes a video of a meal at Les Filles, an Italian restaurant, in Paris.
“Location would earn a 7, but there were an enormous amount of bees that circled. While this can be unavoidable, it made the experience stressful,” she writes.
And in a review of a meal at Nobu Virgin in Las Vegas, Vincent writes, “The steak with mushrooms was *mooah* chef’s kiss.It was cooked to absolute perfection.”
In March, a month before her 24th birthday — which Instagram postings show she celebrated with a raucous party at Tao in Los Angeles — Vincent posted a poem called “Restless Intelligence,” which hints at the emptiness of wealth and a search for meaning.
“The depressing life of a restless girl The beautiful purposeless will of the world Exasperated Nihilist Explorative philosopher The lessons you can’t learn anywhere else Than in the wake of the speedboat Reckless intelligence Finding a way dancing through the fires A genuine smileSave us from the general disparity and emptiness within our peripherals.…,” Vincent writes.