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Jul 29, 2022 · Ahead of huge Mega Millions drawing, how these lottery winners became big losers. By. Michael Kaplan. Published July 29, 2022. Updated July 30, 2022, 3:32 p.m. ET. 0 seconds of 2 minutes, 29...
- William Bud Post. Post won Pennsylvania's $16.2 million jackpot in 1988, the Beaver County Times reported. This was the start of a series of unfortunate events for Post.
- Janite Lee. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported Janite Lee, an immigrant from South Korea, worked in a wig shop before she won $18 million in the Illinois Lottery in 1993.
- Abraham Shakespeare. In 2006, Shakespeare won $30 million in a Florida lottery, and three years later he was murdered. The 47-year-old was shot twice in the chest by DeeDee Moore, who befriended Shakespeare after his lottery win, according to ABC News.
- Denise Rossi. In 1997, Rossi won $1.3 million in the California lottery and immediately filed for divorce from her husband, People reported. Two years later, Rossi's husband discovered she won the lottery and took her to court.
- Lara and Roger Griffiths bought their dream home — and then life fell apart. Before they won a $2.76 million lottery jackpot in 2005, Lara and Roger Griffiths, of England, reportedly never argued.
- Bud Post lost $16.2 million within a nightmarish year after his own brother allegedly put out a hit on him. William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988, but he was $1 million in debt within a year.
- Martyn and Kay Tott won a $5 million jackpot but lost the ticket. Martyn Tott, 33, and his 24-year-old wife Kay, from the UK, missed out on a $5 million lottery fortune after losing their ticket.
- Sharon Tirabassi won $10 million but eventually returned to her old life. In 2004, Sharon Tirabassi, a single mother who had been on welfare, cashed a check from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.
- Jack Whittaker. In 2002, Jack Whittaker won a $314 million Powerball jackpot which, at the time, was the biggest lottery prize in history. The West Virginia construction worker, known for his outsized cowboy hats and even bigger personality, remains one of the most extreme cautionary tales about the lottery’s power to ruin lives.
- Lara and Roger Griffiths. Lara and Roger Griffiths’ marriage ended in divorce less than a decade after the British couple won a $2.19 million jackpot. Roger chased his rock star dreams and spent big bucks for his band to release an album.
- David Lee Edwards. Five years after Kentucky resident David Lee Edwards won a $27 million jackpot, he was penniless and living in a storage shed with his wife.
- Mickey Carroll. Mickey Carroll was only 19 when he won a British jackpot that sent him into early adulthood with the equivalent of $11.8 million. The media dubbed him the “Lotto Lout” as the young winner tore through his newfound fortune with astonishing speed.
Apr 5, 2021 · According to the New York Daily News, 70 percent of lottery winners end up broke within seven years. Even worse, several winners have died horribly or witnessed those close to them suffer.
Oct 24, 2018 · Powerball announced that a single ticket sold at a convenience store in Chicopee, Mass., was the winner of the Aug. 23 $758.7 million jackpot. Here’s how winning the lottery has brought more than...
Jul 19, 2023 · In Florida, a lottery winner had to file for bankruptcy in 2016 after being forced to give $291,000 of the $1 million lottery jackpot to her former boyfriend who sued her for failing to share, the ...
