8 Lottery Winners & Where They Are Today

while winning the lottery is a blessing for most things don't turn out as well for others and some even believe that there is a lottery curse so stay tuned until the end as we take a look at eight lottery winners and where they are today 2019 was off to a pretty good start for Francis and Patrick Connelly from the UK in January of this year the lucky couple won the UK's fourth-largest euro millionaires jackpot of a hundred and fourteen point nine million pounds around a hundred and forty six million dollars and stated they planned to buy a second-hand car and maybe take a trip to Mauritius apart from that the couple wanted to share their newfound wealth with the people they loved with Francis saying that she had already prepared a list of family members and friends she would like to help out one of these fortunate people was her sister Sharon bird essa who had just been forced to put up her home for sale due to financial struggles luckily Frances and Patrick hit the jackpot at just the right time so they could save Sharon's home while most lottery winners gambled their money away and spend it on frivolous things Ronny music Junior made one of the most unusual investments after he won three million dollars in a scratch off lottery game in 2015 the Georgia Lottery winner decided to use the money to buy a trove of methamphetamine to sell the case obviously received a lot of media attention since music made a pretty unusual investment when he used his lottery winnings to buy crystal meth but he was eventually arrested according to authorities the then 46 year old supplied more than 10 pounds of meth to dealers in Georgia on at least one occasion and he later ended up being sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for his role in a massive drug trafficking ring now this was probably one of the worst investments anyone has ever made after winning the lottery the most infamous lottery winner ever is probably Abraham Shakespear I've been 41 year old illiterate and part-time garbage worker who found himself winning 30 million dollars in lottery all of a sudden before buying the lucky ticket doomed Shakespeare was leading a problematic life to say the least he was making eight bucks an hour didn't have a credit card a car and not even a driver's license most of his childhood Penton homes for juvenile delinquents and he made himself a rather long criminal record over the years doing everything from loitering stealing and hitting people to not paying child support and going to prison two times in any case when he won the lottery the government took the child support he owed which was around $9,000 and he started giving loans to his family and friends and even people that he didn't actually know very well for himself Shakespeare bought a six thousand five hundred and ninety square feet has that he had only seen once and a couple of cars soon enough a great deal of money he won was gone in three months later his coworker sued him and claimed that the winning ticket was his and that the money or at least what was left of it should be his as well I'm fortunately for Shakespeare the worst was yet to come and three years after he won the lottery a woman named Doris DeeDee Moore entered his life even though Shakespeare had given away or lent the majority of his winnings by then Moore wanted what was left of it so she seduced the unfortunate man into letting her get rid of everyone else who wanted something from him making sure that she's the only one in his life moreover she also manipulated Shakespeare into launching a business together called Abraham Shakespeare LLC and giving her control of the company's funds she helped herself to a few million dollars buying herself nice things cars and paying for a vacation but suspicions arose when Shakespeare's family reported him missing an investigation was conducted in a tip-off led the investigators to the backyard of a home that Moore had purchased earlier ultimately Shakespeare's body was found buried under nine feet of dirt under a newly constructed concrete slab which resulted in Moore being sentenced to life without parole for the murder many people believe that there is a lottery curse and even though Neal Trotter from London England might not necessarily go as far as saying that his life was completely ruined by winning the lottery he definitely believes that winning a hundred and 7.9 million pounds around one hundred and thirty seven point one million dollars in the EuroMillions lottery was the worst thing that ever happened to him Trotter hit the jackpot in March 2014 and stated that he wanted to use the money to buy a fleet of supercars to replace his old one however following his win he says he is constantly being harassed by strangers trying to get a piece of the fortune one of these strangers was a woman named Don Scully who came forward in 2018 claiming that her son was also Trotters in demanding a hundred thousand pounds or 127 thousand dollars in child support payment the lottery winner denied Scully's claims and said that it had been this way ever since the news broke out that he want the jackpot with strangers demanding money in real life as well as in social media according to him the constant unwanted attention has left him with feelings of regret about ever winning the lottery on the day that William Budd post the third one a sixteen point two million dollar jackpot in the pennsylvania state lottery in 1988 he had only two point forty six dollars in his bank account unfortunately the lottery win turned out to be the beginning of his problems in the first week after he collected the first of 26 annual payments of nearly five hundred thousand dollars post spent more than three hundred thousand dollars in gifts and investments including a liquor license lease for a restaurant in Florida and a used-car lot he also purchased an airplane despite not having a pilot's license and managed to be $500,000 in debt within just three months but things got even worse for post when his ex-girlfriend suited for a share of the winnings in one while his brother hired a hitman to kill him hoping to inherit some of the winnings although the brother failed to get the lottery winner killed and was arrested instead there was still enough other relatives who kept bugging close for money within just one year post was 1 million dollars in debt and had to file for bankruptcy so that now he is living on food stamps and a 450 dollars monthly stipend back in February 2015 Murray Holmes won one-third of the five hundred and sixty four point 1 million dollar jackpot and the lump sum she took home was about a hundred and twenty seven million dollars before taxes the lottery winner who used to work at supermarkets and fast-food joints to support her children one of which has cerebral palsy planned to spend a lot of the money on her kids but also stated that she wanted to finish college support charities and buy her own family as well as her mom new houses in addition to that the lucky jackpot winner donated ten percent of her winnings to Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church which after taxes amounted to above 1.5 million dollars the largest ever donation made to a church from a lottery win while most people would have been very grateful to receive that much money the pastor of this church had a slightly different reaction to the donation he actually decided to sue Murray homes for more money claiming that she had pledged to donate up to ten million dollars to his church the lottery winner also spent several million dollars in bailing her boyfriend out of the jail repeatedly something which she probably regret later on as he reportedly took her money to give it to other women in exchange for sexual favors but while her private life may have been a mess Murray Holmes did successfully help others in need and is still doing so through her foundation she made an initial investment of nine point seven million dollars in the foundation and much of this money has gone to help underprivileged children after Gloria McKenzie had been the record holder of the largest jackpot ever won by just one person for about four years Mavis Elwin zyk of Chicopee Massachusetts set a new record when she claimed the winning ticket for the seven hundred and fifty eight point seven million dollars in August of 2017 she was the only one to beat the odds and won in two hundred and ninety two point two million which is about the same as flipping a coin and having at land on heads twenty eight times in a row and decided to take home the cash lump sum of a whopping four hundred and eighty point five million dollars before taxes Mavis had only found out that she had won because a friend had noted the winning numbers and what she realized she had won she was so shocked that she couldn't do anything and a friend made her sign the ticket to ensure that it couldn't be stolen the friend also made sure that she got home safely where Mavis the first night is a lot of reject bought winter hiding in her bed once she had wrapped her head around the new reality she decided to call up her employer at Mercy Medical Center where she had worked for 32 years and quit her job as a nurse retiring early while the store where Mavis had bought the winning ticket and was therefore in the commission from the winning number generously donated all the money they received to charity in April 2012 Adrienne and Gillan and a furred from Haverhill Suffolk UK won the EuroMillions jackpot of an incredible hundred and forty eight point six million pounds around one hundred and eighty eight point eight million dollars the UK's second largest lottery whenever following their win the couple announced that they would enjoy their prize but just 15 months later they split up and split their winnings equally they have since each spent their share of the fortune living a lavish life buying expensive houses cars vacations gifts animals and other luxuries while both making the headlines with several failed relationships as well Adrienne has reportedly dated three other women and even got engaged to one of them before eventually calling it quits with all of them and apparently wishing to start a new life in a secret location to reinvent himself Gillian on the other hand has been romantically linked with several men since the divorce and it seems like things are not always going well for her in December 2018 she was charged with attacking one of her exes Gavin Ennis after swinging for him in Herat eq7 in October of the previous year because he had refused to back her over a fight Gillian had with Gavin's ex he allegedly suffered only minor injuries and did not require hospital treatment the lottery winner eventually got remarried in August last year two convicted conman Brian Dean's who spent six years in prison for stealing more than 13 thousand 500 pounds from British supermarket chain Tesco by putting through fake customer refunds 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Length: 10min 48sec (648 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2019