BIGGEST LOTTERY WINNERS OF ALL TIME!

hello welcome back to sidemen react today we are going to be finding out biggest powerball winners ever and what they're up to today toby simon if you won the lottery what is the first thing you would buy the sidebar the sidemen [Laughter] a buyer no but it means i could go you know what you are all gonna do the work and i'm i'm gonna just collect and also everyone gets a fat payout that's true so yo y'all splitting it with your boyfriend you're helping the player you're a real friend who can i just get i can just get rid of one side now to buy their shares [Laughter] comment down below you know what i do you know i do i put like i'm buying your shares to the sidemen 10 mil and then see who says yes and then try and like bargain with them to see who would go the lowest and then buy them out or you find out who would sell for 10 mil then you buy the whole thing and then you kick them out for nothing you you vote them out you're gonna have to probably pay them more than that i don't like how much we're thinking about it boys how can we let the video how can we buy the site out there give us some fees we'll buy you a sidemen one sidemen all right let's let's let's see that money can't buy happiness and yet many people play the lottery on a regular basis like changing wins but even though winning a multi-million dollar jackpot usually changes people's lives quite a bit in the way they expect it well some winners manage to make the best of their windfall others end up in dire straits so stay tuned as we check in on 10 powerball winners to see where they are today i'm going to say the most of them have been playing the lottery for about two decades when he finally got lucky in 2014 he bought two powerball quick pick tickets and ended up winning a jackpot of 425 million dollars which was not only the biggest jackpot in california but also one of the biggest wins in the history of the us buxton opted for the lump sum payoff of 242.2 million dollars before taxes for his powerball jackpot and stated that he wanted to maintain his privacy while he didn't reveal any personal details he did explain that he waited a couple of months to come forward and claim his win because he wanted a team of lawyers and financial advisors behind him let him manage his incredible he sat there with a ticket in his little bedside table yeah he's like you can have half marathon it's like you know 10k and deal with everything that goes with suddenly becoming a multi-millionaire buxton decided to put most of his winnings towards charity thank god he's looking forward to his new job setting up a charitable foundation focused on the areas of pediatric health child hunger and boy education yeah go on right back in february 2015 mary holmes won one-third of the 564.1 million dollar powerball jackpot and the lump sum she took home was about 127 million dollars for taxes the lottery winner who used to work at supermarkets and fast food joints to support her children one of which had cerebral palsy planned to spend a lot of the money on her kids but also stated that she wanted to finish college support chair drug dealer boyfriend support charity yeah okay find her own family as well as her mom new house in addition to that the lucky jackpot winner donated 10 of her winnings to pleasant hill missionary baptist church which after taxes amounted to about 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 mary holmes for more money claiming that she had pledged to donate up to 10 million dollars to him [Applause] my guys nah that's a guy that's a guy on my hustle bro he said where's my show me 10 m's i heard you say dead ends you definitely use that mill as well to get lawyers millions of dollars on bailing her boyfriend out of jail repeatedly something which she probably regretted later on as he reportedly took her money to give it to other women in exchange for sexual violence oh well her private life may have been amazing mary holmes did successfully help others in need and is still doing so through her foundation she made an initial investment of 9.7 million dollars in the foundation and much of this money has gone to help underprivileged children there's some positives in there after cynthia p stafford's brother was killed by a drunk driver she took in his five children and raised them as a single mother while helping out her father financially as well as you can imagine money was tight so the family of six was living in a house of just one thousand square feet and struggling to pay the bills that's why stafford started dreaming of winning the lottery and not just any lottery either but actually a 112 million dollar jackpot and in january of 2007 that is exactly what she did the number 112 million had popped into her head three years earlier and after that she had started focusing on winning that amount according to stafford she actually wrote the number on a note and slept with it under her pillow meditated on winning a 100 manifestation jackpot and also visualized how it would feel once obvious three years later the single mother five won a life-changing powerball jackpot which was the exact jackpot she had dreamed of winning for all those years stafford had been buying tickets just a couple of times a month and always picked whichever numbers came into her head at the moment she attributes her prize which allowed her to not only solve her family's financial problems but also start a film company to fulfill her dream to the law of attraction as well as prayer in 2008 nice vargas became one of the youngest lottery winners ever when he won the thirty five point three million dollars the first thing he did was buy his mom a brand new house however also showed that he was still a teenager when he decided to fulfill his dream and create his own wrestling tv show called resolutious takedown [Laughter] i mean yeah dream big bro dream big oh my god delicious takedown [Music] bro that's something ksi would do that's like if guess i won the lottery i mean let's be honest mentally dressed women and sketch comedy but apparently that wasn't enough to make it successful the show was canceled after just one season and reportedly left vargas banking no no brothers you can't do that thirty five well not 35 m's but he did buy his mom a house yeah he's a high school teacher who cared very much about the kids he was teaching and often thought it was a shame that kids today usually don't grow up doing the kinds of activities he himself had enjoyed as a child like going to camp swimming playing sports or exploring the outdoors so when he was lucky enough to win a 111 million dollar powerball jacket i did i did i broke my collarbone and had to have to firm it for two days in camp we were doing a three-legged race and uh i was paired with a with a big boy and he found out how early on did you break it did he like drag you along like the start of the race oh my god you finished the race yeah lost oh my god we got up and finished the race la last and then i paid robin did he use the money to create a camp of his own and bring some of the joys of his childhood to other children the teacher founded camp winegator on 226 acres that he bought with his lottery money the camp operated for over a decade and gave parents the opportunity to send their children to camp at a low cost so they could spend their summer in a place lonely horse back ride crash swim and play on the lake and this one doesn't sound right they had a chance to disconnect from video games and cell phones and get in touch with nature and their real-life friends after gloria mckenzie had been the record holder for the largest jackpot ever won by just one person for about four years mavis l wansiak of chicopee massachusetts set a new record when she claimed the winning ticket for the point 758.7 million dollar powerball jason in august of 2017 she was the only one to beat the odds of one in 292.2 million which is about the same as flipping a coin and having it land on heads 28 times in a row according to mathematician professor cornelia that actually sounded like that yeah yeah that's something a lot easier yeah but then think about how many times you would need to flip the coin i saw probability had no memory there that's the point i'm making so i could i could do it first time yeah but there's like a one in 200 million chance that you do it first time right now i don't i don't think you get more than four flipping yeah one heads heads two heads that's tails oh yeah well that was that was a good effort you almost you know she owes us like 40k i think decided to take home the cash lump sum of a whopping 480.5 million dollars before taxes mavis had only found out that she had won because a friend had noted the winning numbers and when she realized she had won she was so shocked that she couldn't do anything she barely given that friend some money she signed the ticket to ensure that it couldn't be stolen the friend also made sure she got home safely where mavis spent the first night as a lottery jack and the front dropped [Laughter] she made sure she got home safely i'm getting rid of her taking the money bro yeah i'll tell you my ticket you guys are my friends but i'm not telling you if you've won if you don't know you've won yeah i'm going to go you might have been running away bro throw away simon's head first into the bin once she had wrapped her head around her 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 retired i don't need you anymore this is sure where mavis had bought the winning ticket and which therefore earned the commission from the winning number generously donated all the money they received to charity oh david lee edwards was a convicted felon when he won 27 million dollars in the kentucky powerball back in 2001 and he quickly went on an insane shopping spree buying multiple cars a medieval armor and weapons collection a private jet racing horses that kept losing and a hummer golf cart for his daughter within one year edwards had spent roughly 12 million dollars and contracted hepatitis from repeated drug abuse by 2006 all of his lottery winnings were gone his wife had left him because he was broke and he was forced to sell all of his belongings edwards ended up living in a storage unit where he died alone surrounded by his own feces owing thousands of dollars just 12 years after winning 27 million in the powerball the world that was a lot jackpot a real up and down i mean i'm not gonna lie i expected more stories like that i didn't expect this many good stories yeah a lot of people just being good being good i think top three top three we see another another one at least one more at least one more the world's largest jackpot in cash value and annuity was drawn on january 13th 2016. according to cnn money and there were three winning tickets for history's biggest prize of an amazing 1.586 billion prizes in the powerball lottery because there's john and lisa robinson in tennessee maureen smith and david coleman and marvin and may acosta in california who all had the option of receiving roughly 533 million dollars before taxes as an annuity or 327.8 million dollars as the lump sum payment and all went for the ever popular one-time payment every single person has taken the lump sum so they they just scam on the literally on the lottery they're like you could win 500 million but we're not going to give it to you and no one's ever taken it and your payment yeah so the robinsons from tennessee had bought their winning ticket as one of four they bought at a grocery store and then opted for the lump sum saying we're not guaranteed tomorrow smith schmidt from florida told nbc that they were planning to get massages upgrade their truck and retire with their new foundation how many how many massages are you gonna buy they just lie there 24 7 back to back to back-to-back remained anonymous for months after winning and also took a full six months to claim their 327.8 million dollar lump sum they chose to do the smart thing and lawyer up consult financial advisors and generally wrap their heads around the incredible amount of money they had won before picking up the check however the couple eventually released the statement saying they were thankful for the rare gift that has been placed in our care when paul inspired [Laughter] won a powerball jackpot of a hundred and eighty wait i'm waiting for them to do the most wholesome thing ever from a drawing in 2008 they immediately knew exactly what they wanted to do with all the money the couple had bought their winning ticket on the day of the fifth anniversary of their oldest granddaughter michaela's death from a rare and incurable disease in fact crab disease is so rare that only one out of about 100 000 newborns are affected which means that it is too rare to receive the kind of funding that many more common diseases do do you feel bad yet yeah i mean that's why that's only why they bought the ticket okay okay let's carry on listen i haven't seen how this is the devastating degenerative illness that attacks the lining of the nerves and usually results and this is what do you mean they don't look like romans [Laughter] they're exactly they've done exactly what they look like they would do they've done something really nice um all comments made by myself and simon are purely uh part of the entertainment experience we're providing today also we're not laughing at the situation we're laughing at the stupidity of ourselves oh my god no good on them good on them angels to not only increase awareness of crab disease as well as cystic fibrosis another disease that was discovered in their family but also to help fund promising research into treatment and so now they are the best when they and director of gold's gyms in idaho after electing for the lump sum and paying the necessary taxes duke received 86 million dollars but decided to keep his job and work towards the slightly lofty goal of becoming a billionaire initially duke was planning to achieve billionaire status within three years but his advisers steered him towards planning to reach his goal within 15 years instead the 15 years are up this year and even though duke still hasn't achieved his goal he has more than doubled his net worth since winning the game he stated that he is rather content with his current financial situation and is looking at achieving billionaires more of a life-long church see this he didn't do anything all he did was turn his money into more money they didn't mention charity once yeah yeah trying to make yourself feel better yeah be more like the other couple all right well that's a that's a lot of money that's a whole lot of money money in the remarks pretty much every single person was nice there except one

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Published: Sat Jun 11 2022