DUMBEST Lottery WINNERS Of ALL TIME!

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went broke we've covered over the years buckle up belt because it's going to be a wild ride full of crazy stories number 36 Justin Ryder, even little kids know that just because cartoon characters can jump off a roof without dying doesn't mean they should try it themselves, but Justin Ryder had reached adulthood without realizing that he had become obsessed with the movie Austin Powers Gold Member, he made it his life's goal to have a gold member of his own and when he surprisingly won six hundred thousand dollars, he saw it as a chance to finally gold-plated his trash, but he probably should have used real money. gold I guess it was just the bright color he was looking for because he opted for lead-based paint, happily dipped his nether regions in it and went on with his life, but when some didn't feel good, he went shopping again and this

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. he got a genuine gold infused painting.

He could have removed the first layer of paint, but I guess he had something important to do because he simply painted over it with his new royal gold paint. It wasn't long before Justin was found dead but what happened turned out that the cause of death was lead poisoning due to the first paint he covered his family jewelry with. I doubt that was what he planned, but at least he left this world as bright as he always wanted to be. okay, the next person on our list sounds like she's vying for the odd number 35 points Alicia Battle Alicia Battle always had a talent for being on the wrong side of the law, she's already been arrested for tampering with cars, credit card fraud and even assault, but in 2003 she tried her hand at her most risky crime, but when it was announced that the lucky holder of the Mega Millions ticket had won a jackpot of 162 million dollars, Alicia saw the opportunity to get rich and knew she had bought a losing ticket at the same store.

She said she sold the winning ticket when no winner came forward to claim her prize. Alicia stepped forward to tell the world that she had won, but she said that she tragically lost her ticket. People from all over came together to try to help her while she filed a police report. In a big mistake, the real

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simply received financial advice before coming forward to claim their prize. They finally arrived to claim the prize from her, unknowingly exposing Alicia's lie at the same

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, instead of being a billionaire, all Alicia got was another brush with the law. for filing a false police report, how did she think she was going to get away with it?

That the same question applies to the next person on this list, number 34 Joe Antonio cuetok Joe did not win the biggest lottery prize of all time, but a 750,000 prize from the Georgia Lottery. It's still pretty amazing that that amount of cash can go a long way if you're an illegal immigrant like Joe. Wait, what if you're wondering how illegal immigrants can claim lottery prizes? There is a simple answer: they can't, so it's pretty stupid to play. lottery in the first place, but I guess Joe thought he had it figured out, he just asked his boss to collect the money for him, however, Joe Haden trusted that his boss would just take the money for him, but there's not much What can he do about it if you've earned money illegally in a country you're not supposed to be in?

Joe didn't see it that way, he got so angry that he decided to sue his boss and that was his last big mistake, obviously his illegal status. He was discovered thanks to the trial and not only was he deported, he ended up in jail because he had also taken the time to threaten to kill his boss's family after taking the money. I know it's almost impressive how many mistakes Joe made to make sure some people are very lucky. but no one has been that lucky except maybe four, number 33 Evelyn Basor, very few people are lucky enough to win the lottery not once but twice.

That's exactly what happened to Evelyn Basehor. Her first win in 1985 was the top prize with a huge total of 3.9. million, but the second jackpot wasn't small either, just four months later he had another jackpot of 1.4 million to his name, which is the kind of money that can keep you in luxury for the rest of your life, but despite that Evelyn clearly got very lucky, she didn't have the intelligence to do it, she gave away a lot of her money but, worse yet, she spent most of the rest on gambling. I guess she thought that betting on the lottery had been worth it and that it was her best bet to win more. she cash, but we could have told her that she would never be so lucky again.

She's broke, she works two jobs to pay for food and lives in a trailer park. She still plays the lottery, although who knows, maybe she's third time lucky. There is a mistake that Evelyn made. She couldn't make her ticket purchases legitimate, that's not true for our next 32nd winner, Christina Goodenow. Christina Goodernal was lucky enough to win $1 million on an Oregon Lottery scratch-off ticket. Incredible, it would have been incredible, but in an incredible act of stupidity, she decided that it was okay to buy the ticket with a credit card that belonged to her boyfriend's dead mother, obviously buying lottery tickets with stolen credit cards is illegal in the Just as buying anything with a stolen credit card is illegal, but that wasn't Christina's only mistake.

Obviously, the moment he received the cash, the feds realized they should probably investigate why this lottery ticket was apparently bought by a dead woman and when they found Christina, they hid their own kind of jackpot and They found a whole collection of crimes she was committing. accused of theft, forgery, identity theft, computer fraud and violation of probation, they even found a good amount of methamphetamine in her possession as a cherry on top of her crimes. I guess he deserved it all if he wasn't even smart enough to hide the drugs when the feds came knocking, it's almost okay to do something that crazy when you're only looking out for yourself, but the next person on our list had children who took care of the number 31.

Gerald Muswagon Canadian Gerald Muswagon bought a two-dollar lottery ticket that made him an instant millionaire in 2011. He won a $10 million jackpot, but blew it in just a few years . He bought a house that also served as a late-night party venue and housed his growing Hangers On injury. He also wasted money on party cars. and Gifts while accumulating a series of legal entanglements in the end he was doing manual labor on a farm to support his girlfriend and their six young children seven years after his big win he hanged himself in his parents' garage there were many tragic lottery winners for There you can blame the lottery curse that came to the next person on our list as well, number 30.

Amanda Clayton Amanda Clayton was going through a pretty difficult time in her life, she was only in her early 20s and she was forced to claim state welfare and used food stamps to be able to eat she didn't look good until something surprising happened, she won 1 million in the Michigan Lottery Get Rich game, that's more than enough money to change her life for complete, but decided to do it instead. something really stupid, a local news outlet noticed that she was still claiming welfare and food stamps a couple years after winning, she wasn't broke or anything, she just wanted to have her cake and eat it too, it wasn't long before that he did it.

Upon losing a court case, she received nine months of probation and a fine for her crimes. Sadly, she was found dead of a drug overdose a year later. It's a sad ending, but the next person on our list proves that many winners create their own problems number 29 Tonda Lynn Dickerson, this story began in a Waffle House, the group of waitresses who worked there had become quite close over the course of Over the years, one of their regular customers began tipping them with lottery tickets on the condition that they would split the prize money if they won and buy it too. a new truck they never thought they would win but they were wrong one of the waitresses checked their ticket the next day and realized that it was worth 10 million dollars there was only one problem Tonda was the owner of the winning ticket and decided that she didn't want to share, Obviously the other waitresses were pretty unhappy because not only had they lost all their money, but they had also been betrayed by someone they thought was their friend, so they got together and sued Honda.

Unfortunately, they lost the case. and tana got away with all the cash by then the customer who bought the ticket heard what she had done and couldn't believe she would treat her friends that way and get away with it so he tried to get some justice for the waitresses. She sued Tonda, saying the waitress had promised to buy her a new truck if they wanted the case to go all the way to the Supreme Court, but she eventually won again. She almost got her way, but then she made a mistake. Tanda decided to protect her money by opening a corporation which would have been safe except that she gifted shares of the corporation to her family, which was a big mistake because she didn't realize that those shares qualified for the gift tax. .

The IRS came after her when they realized the tax had not been paid. They didn't pay her and she was forced to hand over a million dollars, so none of her friends could share the money, but at least she had to pay something, at least Hana tried to keep her money, that's the only good thing that can be done say about her, the next person on her list had a different idea number 28 Sharon tirabassi Sharon tirabasi won $10.5 million in a Super 7 lottery jackpot in Canada in 2004 by spending excessively and giving her life a makeover exaggerated in the years after his victory.

She ran out of money quickly assuming the money was bottomless. Vacations, cars, houses and handouts piled up until there was nothing left in 2013. She was riding the bus to the part-time job she worked to support her children because all her earnings were gone. By then you would think that, as a mother, you would have had better priorities. I think that's a strange way for a parent to behave, just wait until you hear about the next winners on the 27th US chart. Lara and Roger Griffiths Laura and Roger Griffiths' marriage ended in divorce less than a decade after that the British couple won a lottery jackpot of 2.19 million.

Roger pursued his rock star dreams by spending large sums of money to have his band release an album. Laura became familiar with High Life after the couple bought exotic cars for a million. One dollar house, designer clothes and accessories, and an expensive private school for her daughter. They invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into opening a salon where Laura was later forced to work as an employee just to make ends meet. In the end, the couple had less than ten dollars. in a broken relationship when we said you had to follow your dreams that's not what we meant the next winner already had his dreams come true and still blew them number 26 Daniel Carly Canadian Daniel Carly received the surprise of his life one day when He scratched off his Ontario Lottery ticket and realized that he had really won and it wasn't just a little bit, whether his jackpot was 5 million Canadian dollars or about 4.4 million in American money.

He has to feel amazing, his life was practically perfect now that he was one. engaged to the mother of his unborn child surrounded by friends and family and in the prime of his life that night he went to the bar he co-owned with his father to celebrate his victory with France. There's no better way to celebrate than with a big party, but even though the night was over, the partying didn't stop for Daniel, he kept it up for a decade, estimating that he spent an incredible $1 million on drugs over the next few years. , when he ran out of cash, he again calculated the drugs. were the answer, so he began trafficking narcotics.

They eventually caught him and he spent a few years in prison for it, but on the plus side, he did help him get off the drug cocktail he was on. You know things went wrong when he gets his prison time. to be a good thing, it could have been worse, ask the next 25th winner, Alex Toth. Alex Toth won 13 million in the Florida lottery in 1990. He lived well for a few years and then went bankrupt by spending all the money and not investing. correctly after going bankrupt he separated from his wife he got in trouble for filing tax returnsfalse taxes and spent some time in a mental institution died penniless at age 60 in 2008. some people learned the hard way that money is not that easy to manage the next winner on our list summed up number 24 very well, Ken Proxmeyer, you know how people always say you should choose annuity payouts to avoid going broke.

It doesn't always help. Ken Proxmeyer won his $1 million jackpot thanks to the Michigan State Lottery and that really was a lot of cash. In 1977, he chose the annuity option that guaranteed him $50,000 a year for 14 years. That was a lot of cash back then, but not as much as Ken thought, he started spending like he was going to. out of fashion, he bought houses, businesses, cars and even paid the bill every time he went out with friends, but it didn't take long for his investments to begin to collapse, soon his pool hall was 60,000 in debt, making that 50 000 annually the payout seems like a small change your advice to future lottery winners dig yourself into a hole and pull the top end I don't think that's what you wanted to hear if adults can ruin their chances like that.

What happens when a teenager wins the lottery? let's ask number 23 Kali Rogers back in 2003 Kali Rogers was living in foster care and working in a supermarket and suddenly she made headlines when she became the youngest lottery winner in the world. She was only 16 at the time, but now she was an incredible 2.3. million in the bank, the British team totally changed her life with that money, unfortunately not in a good way, she started spending it on crazy things with no role models to help her make good decisions, she also developed a drug habit and a style strange life and became depressed.

That led her to spend tons of money on plastic surgery in hopes of feeling a little better about herself, but it didn't help, she said the money made her feel like no one cared about her because she bought drinks at bars for people. that they were only talking to her so they could get a story they could sell to the tabloids that she was losing every cent she had won in the end and now she is campaigning to try to change the minimum age for lottery players, obviously Cali is not the winning teenager most famous lottery, that price goes to number 22 Michael Carroll at the tender age of just 19 years old.

Michael Carroll won the lottery, raised the 14 million with a police anklet still around his leg, which probably gives a good idea of ​​what happened next, spent a lot on buying a mansion he didn't like, and spent even more on fix it. He built a demolition drag strip in the backyard where she destroyed luxury cars. He even started the day with narcotics and vodka for breakfast and spent millions on sex parties at the mansion even though he soon had a wife and son, his family and friends had abandoned him because he was behaving very badly, fortunately for him, when he broke down, His wife decided to take pity on him and returned considering he said he would be dead by now if he still had the money.

Do you think this is so? just bad luck, well the next person won on Friday the 13th, so they might have the 21st answer. Lou Eisenberg Lou Eisenberg became the luckiest man in New York when he hit the five million dollar jackpot in 1981 , at the time it was the largest lottery payout in history. in New York State his life should have been perfect after that, but maybe winning on Friday the 13th he cursed his new Fortune because he definitely didn't help much instead of making smart investments to follow a dream. Lou gambled away most of his money. the rest went to pay off his ex-wives and that was all Lou's Fortune gave him the last time anyone checked that he was living in a mobile home, maybe it wasn't the curse of Friday the 13th that affected him, maybe it was just be old old-fashioned stupidity, okay, so maybe it's not bad luck after all, some people can lose everything and still come back as number 20 Curtis Sharp Curtis Sharp won five million dollars in the New York lottery in 1982.

Unfortunately, their story was one of rags to riches. and back from trips to the casino Reckless spending on sports cars and lavish gifts for friends and family Curtis saw his fortune rapidly disappear to this day Curtis is a minister in Tennessee, according to him, other winners should go away and clear their heads before spin any of his winnings, that's a pretty positive story considering he lost his winnings, so we've made sure the next story on our list is one of the worst number 19. William post William Bud post III won 16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery in 1988, he thought his problems were solved, but it wasn't long before he blew it, even though William didn't have a pilot's license, he decided to buy a plane.

He tried to help his brother open a restaurant and a used car business. His ex-girlfriend, who also sued him for a third of his earnings. He didn't pay her, so a judge throws away his assets. Relationships with his family members also deteriorated. William even claims that one of his brothers tried to hire an assassin to kill him. There is nothing worse than that day a repository man stupidly tried to take William's car. When Williams saw him, he opened fire. You won't be surprised to learn that he ended up in jail for it. In the end he lived off Social Security disability. payments until he died at age 66.

Some people just don't know how to take advantage of an opportunity, just ask number 18 John Roberts John Roberts was living in government housing in Scotland in 1998 when he suddenly won a huge jackpot: he suddenly had 3.1 1 million. British Pounds in the bank or about $5.1 million, that's an incredible amount of money for anyone, but it's even more so if you've never had money, imagine what you could have done with it and when I say imagine, I mean it. Because he didn't do anything except spend it all, he blew his fortune on supercars and giant mansions after a couple of people he thought were his friends stole his money by lying about investments.

He had nothing left, it only took him three years before he lived in an old house. mobile home sure his friends left with the last of his cash but he didn't really try to do anything good with it the next person did it in the

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way possible number 17 Lisa ark and Lisa was the winner of a million dollar lottery prize in Massachusetts in 2004. She, like previous winners, bought a house and took several vacations. She hosted an extravagant dinner for 20 of her friends and family. She ordered several bottles of wine for two hundred dollars each. She enrolled her son in a fancy school and bought.

Expensive furniture for her home Lisa decided to open a restaurant as a source of income after realizing that a million dollars wasn't much after taxes. Lisa had no previous experience in restaurants or financial management, unfortunately the restaurant did not do well and she was forced to close it Lisa's money ran out in 2007, just three years after she won the lottery, they say: stick to what you know and Lisa proves it's true. The next person on the list was too attached to his ideas, although he was number 16. Janet Lee South Korean immigrant Janet Lee won 18 million in the Illinois Lottery in 1993, eight years later, when she declared bankruptcy, she had less than 700 in the bank and 2.5 million in debt.

Her donations were well-intentioned, but she simply gave too much. She donated considerable sums. to educational, political and social causes, but it wasn't just donating to charities that consumed his earnings, although his gambling addiction reportedly cost him over three hundred thousand dollars a year, he still made more in charitable and political donations, his generosity included one million dollars. By the time the University of Washington built a new library in 2001, her fortune had evaporated, but at least other people benefited from it. It's good to be generous, but maybe not so generous. The next winner was also generous, except it was a total accident number 15.

John McGinnis John McGinnis learned the hard way that following your heart isn't always the best idea. This man from the United Kingdom won a huge UK National Lottery prize in 1997, taking home £10 million or $16.3 million, and he knew exactly what he wanted to do with it. In cash, he quit his job as a hospital porter and bought his favorite soccer club for 4.9 million. Unfortunately, he didn't know that buying the club meant he would be responsible for all of their debts and they surely owed a lot of cash. In 2009, just 12 years later, the club's debts had wiped out his profits and he was scraping coins to buy food.

If you learned something from that story, say that you should always investigate. Another lesson for lottery winners is to never trust anyone, just ask number 14. Marva Wilson Marva Wilson won two million dollars in the Missouri Lottery in 2012. It's not easy to manage that amount of money. Fortunately, Freya Pearson, a good friend of hers, agreed to help Marva manage her money and do all her taxes, but she was lying and tricked Marva into signing. four hundred thousand dollars of her earnings to transfer to a bank account created by Pearson and give him access to Wilson's other bank account.

Pearson went to a spending bank, traveled gambling and bought cars in an apartment with Marvis' money, fortunately he was finally caught Pearson was convicted and sentenced to five years for fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, but it was too late to recover the funds. Pearson had blown all of Wilson's money in less than two years. It's always sad when a lottery winner has his money in cash. stolen, but what happens when lottery winners are stealing cash from others? number 13 James Hayes James Hayes worked as an overnight security guard in 1998 when he won 19 million playing the California lottery super game, but he quickly went from winner to loser, his ex-wife reportedly taking half of the money from the jackpot James developed a heroin habit that cost him a thousand dollars a week, then resorted to robbing banks to support his lifestyle, the FBI nicknamed him PT Cruiser Bandit and the Bandit of the season due to his car and gray Air on 2018, James pleaded guilty. guilty of bank robbery and was sentenced to 33 months in prison, of course, at that time there was not a dollar left of his earnings.

After hearing the next story on our list, you will feel that the banks totally deserve what James did, even if we legally don't agree with that idea number 12. Francisco Guerrero you have to be very careful who you trust when you win a big prize Francisco Guerrero was a bricklayer in Spain. He didn't have much money but he was happy and even worked hard enough to buy some properties, but he became a multimillionaire overnight when he earned the equivalent of $8.6 million. He had never seen so much money in his life, so instead of trying to decide what to do with it, he took it to The bank took the bank's advice and put 40 percent of the money into savings for his four children and invested the rest .

The bank told him that his money would be safe and that the investment involved no risks, but that it would allow him to earn 17 euros each year. Sounds good, right? Francisco never touched the smell of his new fortune and chose to continue working instead. He did not think about money again until he injured his knee. He went to the bank to withdraw a small sum for the surgery he needed but was told there was no There was money in his account, the bank had lost every dollar Francisco made on the terrible investment they recommended, but it was even worse than he thought.

The investment had accumulated an incredible amount of debt, not only had it lost its profits, but it now owed so much. a lot of money, but he had also lost the properties he bought with his hard-earned money. The courts ordered the bank to return some of the money, but it's not even close to what Francisco had before. This could be the most tragic story of any story. lottery winner ever, it could be even more tragic than a murder, but we'll let you decide number 11 Joseph and E.B ronakioli. Canadian residents Joseph and E.B ronakioli were already quite rich when EB won five million dollars in the lottery in 1991.

They were known as happy. elderly couple with their neighbors, however, their supposedly comfortable lifestyle changed when Joseph discovered that EB had spent all of his life savings due to his alcohol and gambling addictions. If that wasn't bad enough, she refused to share her lottery winnings with him, but he discovered that she gave away the 5 million to a secret son she had with another man before she married Joseph a few years ago. years later. EB was found unconscious in her house. An autopsy showed that she had been poisoned. Joseph, who was a doctor, claimed that she washaving his blood tested due to his poor health, but prosecutors saw through his lies and sentenced him to seven years.

It's a pretty tragic end to what could have been a great life that could almost have been a Netflix show with all those twists and turns, but the next winner on our list was Not far off at number 10. David Lee Edwards, five Years after Kentucky resident David Lee Edwards won a jackpot, had no money and had to live in a storage shed with his wife, he married a woman 19 years his junior and the couple wasted money. the fortune in luxury goods they bought dozens of high-end cars a large mansion and a plane in the first three months they had spent three million dollars at the end of the first year they had burned more than 12 million on the couple then it became a spiral drug addiction in just 12 years after winning the jackpot that changed their lives their house was lost in foreclosure David died in 2013 completely broke at age 58 in a hospice a few years later his wife was arrested for stabbing a boyfriend is the perfect example of the lottery curse which is sadly a familiar story among lottery winners, the next winner on our list didn't get close to drugs but still got into the wrong side of the law number nine Lawrence Candlish Lawrence Candlish didn't just waste his millions.

In fact, he also got into trouble with the law in another country. He won a huge UK National Lottery prize in 1997 and I mean, huge, it was worth around $9 million, that's a lot of money to spend, but Lawrence had a talent for losing money. He started spending it on sports cars and houses for himself and his friends, then he moved to Spain and put more money into some dodgy investments, but that wasn't his biggest mistake while living in Spain, he was getting into trouble. a country I wasn't even in by continuing to collect UK social benefits in case you don't know, those benefits are available to people without work or money to make sure they can still eat, they are definitely not meant to be. collected by billionaires Lawrence was eventually caught and given a suspended sentence for benefit fraud at least he deserved what he got The next winner on our list surely wasn't number eight Baruch Khan Baruch Khan founded a dry cleaning business in Chicago after immigrating to United States from India in 1989.

He worked hard to create a good life for his family. Years later he bought a lottery ticket and was shocked to discover that he had won a billion dollars. He chose the lump sum which amounted to 424,000 after taxes. He told the world that he wanted to use it to expand his business so that his children would have something big to inherit, however, he never saw a cent, he died before he could cash his check, his brother was the first to find out after receiving a mysterious call that a Rouge was suffering a heart attack his assets were embroiled in a battle between his wife and stepdaughter his brother convinced the police his brother had been murdered for his Lottery money and sure enough an autopsy showed evidence of the deadly substance cyanide in his blood aroush's death was ruled a murder but the police still haven't caught his killer it wasn't even a giant Powerball ticket the next person on our list will tell you half a million dollars it's not as much as you think Number seven, Peter Kyle, former soldier Peter Kyle became one of the biggest jackpot winners the UK had ever seen in 2005.

He had played the same numbers he had been picking for years and was the only one. winner of a jackpot worth 9.8 million and if that wasn't enough he went out to play bingo with his friends to celebrate and won an extra £500 as a bonus, but only three years later he was living off the profits and staying in a room . for 18 a night so what happened to the millions? There is a simple answer: he spent it, yes, all of it. A fishing boat left the Spree, but luxury cars and five-bedroom mansions were soon added to his expenses.

He was spending a huge amount. 5,500 a day after that, it only took one or two bad investments to end his life as a rich person when he won, he said in an interview that everything I see that I can afford seems like I was wrong, the next person on our list won three times. as much as Peter, who made his money go the furthest number six Billy Bob Harold Jr Billy Bob Harrell Jr is a well-known winner of the lottery curse, he won the Texas Lottery jackpot in 1997 but burned through his 31 million dollars in just two years, the deeply religious family donated large amounts to their Church and to individual members of the congregation, but their outlays and outlays were not all donations.

He and his wife bought a couple of houses and expensive cars for themselves and their family. They paid for expensive trips to Hawaii and lived. The most luxurious lifestyle possible with his spending money quickly dried up shortly after the money ran out. Billy's marriage fell apart. The divorce was too much for Billy and just two years after earning more than $31 million, his son tragically found him dead. had taken his own life Billy's story is surprising because his life seems perfect, but the next person on our list was on the wrong path from the beginning, number five, Lee Ryan, many lottery winners end up in trouble with the law , but this winner was facing a prison sentence before winning Lee Ryan was awaiting trial for selling stolen cars in London when he discovered he had won 6.5 million pounds for about 7.8 million dollars but he couldn't enjoy it because he had to spend the next 18 months in prison when he got out I guess he thought life was for living because he went crazy with his new Fortune he obviously loved cars but he should have been careful because they had already put him in prison his first purchases were a Bentley a BMW a Porsche and a Ferrari, then she needed a mansion to stay with the man, so she bought a house worth 1.2 million and very soon she also had two Ducatis, a private plane worth a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a helicopter worth 280 thousand dollars, you see where this is going.

He then broke up with his girlfriend and moved to Kyrgyzstan with another girl. It didn't last long. He lost his millions in a fish farm when he fell on the wrong side of the mafia and had to return to London alone with a sleeping boy. stock spent two years sleeping on the streets but these days he works as a cameraman and seems to be doing well but he's surely no longer a millionaire in some ways that story somehow ended better than it started, we can't say the same about our next winner number four Willie hurt Willie hurt was a happily married family man who was well known in his neighborhood before winning the lottery in 1989. hurt won the Michigan Super Lotto jackpot of $3.1 million this was during the height of the epidemic. crack and hurt was deeply entangled in the chaos, his profits were used to finance a raging crack addiction shortly after his victory stung, he divorced, his wife lost custody of his children and he lost his fortune, he descended into a frenzy of drugs and alcohol for several days with a woman who was found dead was charged with her murder although it was probably the result of a drug overdose hurts the lawyer claimed the money was spent on her divorce from Rocky and her crack addiction in 1991 just two years after winning the $3.1 million he was nothing more than a blurred memory Unfortunately, broken families are common among lottery winners, just ask number three Keith go Keith go of England is another lottery winner lottery who claimed that his new Fortune ruined his life.

He was a happily married 58-year-old Baker at the time of winning his UK national title. The lottery's jackpot was a rollover from the previous draw and as big as you'd expect: 9 million pounds or about $17.3 million. He suddenly went from baking to driving fast cars, betting huge sums on racehorses and spending his time in a private executive box. at the Aston Villa football club, but it wasn't all the expenses that really got to him, it was the drinking. Soon his alcohol problem got so bad that he and his wife separated. She said that she broke his heart because they were so in love with him before. he won all they wanted to do was retire together five years after his big win, the stress of being broke and losing his wife got to him and he sadly died of a heart attack.

He's probably wondering if things go differently for existing lottery winners. Rich people, they know how to handle that amount of money. Let's ask number two, Jack Whitaker. Andrew Jack Whitaker, unlike most winners, was already rich. His company was doing contracts worth about 15 million a year, on Christmas morning 2002, he won the biggest jackpot in history. awarded to a single Powerball ticket was a whopping 319 4.9 million he chose the lump sum that left him 113 million after taxes however Jack Whitaker's lottery winnings changed him more than the money he had earned through hard work he donated some to good causes like 15 million to build churches in West Virginia Jack also created a charitable foundation and even bought a new house for the woman who sold him the ticket and gave her a new car and also gave her some extra money despite Because of his good deeds, the curse of the lottery got him, his company was hit by frivolous lawsuits from people who wanted to get their hands on some of the jackpot money, costing him millions in legal fees.

Whitaker began to spiral downward, drinking heavily and fighting if this was it. It wasn't enough that her granddaughter Brandy got involved with the wrong people and she died at a young age, a year after her boyfriend died of an overdose. The death had devastating consequences for his family. Andrew's daughter, Brandy's mother, was found dead seven years after she won the jackpot. His wife. He filed for divorce and soon Andrew lost his family and all the money he had earned. The last person on our list also loved something, he loved his cars, but they got him into serious trouble.

Number one Ryan McGee. Ryan McGee from Ireland was once in the UK. rich list when he won a huge jackpot worth 12.7 million his first purchase was a red Ferrari followed by a luxury mansion but it all went downhill when he crashed his Ferrari when investigators discovered he was driving without insurance his license was suspended his car didn't The only thing that ruined his business and his marriage was coming together when he was caught driving with a suspended license the next time he was behind the wheel of a Ford Focus and this time he had to seek legal assistance from the government to help him in court.

In case it was discovered that he had already put his luxury mansion up for sale and was bankrupt, so now you know all the dumbest things lottery winners have done, but what about the smartest ones? ? Check out this list of all the creative ways lottery winners held on. the money from him and he even became richer