The Dumbest Lottery Winners Of All Time

from accidentally throwing a 3 million pound lottery ticket in the bin to spending an entire 16 million dollar prize in under 90 days these are the absolute dumbest lottery winners of all time beginning with Jose Antonio cuatok who almost lost his entire Lottery Fortune after getting someone else to claim the money for him you say when Jose won the 750 000 jackpot back in 2010. he was living in the US illegally so Jose asked his boss to claim the prize on his behalf as he feared he couldn't claim the money without potentially facing legal trouble and deportation this worked out perfectly until Jose's boss began to falsely state that he was the one who had actually purchase the ticket taking legal action against his boss was risky given Jose wasn't supposed to be in the country at all however given he had security camera footage of him purchasing the ticket Jose did so was able to prove that he was the rightful owner to the 750 000 prize only 250 000 this went to taxes another 250 000 was spent on court fees and throughout the legal process Jose was jailed for drunk driving and was deported back to Guatemala as soon as he won the court case however at least Jose Antonio cuatok got to keep some of his winnings as Denise Rossi wasn't so fortunate when Denise won a jackpot of 1.3 million back in 1996 she'd been married to Thomas Rossi for over 25 years yet their relationship was apparently lacking in transparency as Denise didn't tell her husband about the win and instead filed for divorce only 11 days after buying the lucky ticket I was afraid to tell Thomas because I knew he would try to take the money away from me I went to the Lottery Commission office and told them I was married but contemplating divorce they told me to file before I got my first check which I did Denise was initially successful in hiding the money from her now ex-husband as for a whole two years after their divorce Thomas had no idea that Denise had ever won the lottery however in May 1999 a letter was sent to Thomas's home address asking if Denise was interested in the lump sum buyout of her lottery winnings this was the first Thomas knew about the lottery prize he confirmed that Denise was a winner with the cow California Lottery and given they were still married at the time of the win Thomas launched a lawsuit stating that he was entitled to half of the prize money if the judge specifically found that Denise's failure to disclose the lottery winnings constituted fraud oppression and Malice and as a result the trial court awarded Thomas a hundred percent of the lottery winnings which left Denise with less than nothing considering she also had to pay for her own legal fees however Denise's loss of 1.3 million was still nothing in comparison to evil and Adams dubbed the luckiest woman in America Evelyn Adams became the first person in human history to win the lottery twice initially for 3.9 million in October 1985 before winning another 1.4 million only four months later with the probability of this win being approximately one in 17.3 trillion Evelyn seemed to realize that she had no Lottery luck left by stating that she was going to quit playing and instead began to buy various businesses including the convenience store where the lucky tickets had been purchased while you could argue that this was a smart move Evelyn still hadn't fixed her gambling problem and instead of buying more lottery tickets she instead took the rest of her weddings to the Atlantic City casinos where she lost her entire remaining Fortune to the slot machines without any money left her businesses failed one after the other and by 2012 Evelyn was living in a trailer park while stating to the media winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be Kelly Rogers likely had a similar Outlook as after winning over 1.8 million pounds at the age of only 16 her life was also ruined initially Kelly stated I will not go wild and spend loads I'm going to take some advice and see an accountant hopefully I'll make us all comfortable I want to help my family but I won't change I just want a normal home nothing Posh I just want a normal car as well however as soon as she received the money Kelly instead spent 11 500 pounds on two boob jobs 300 000 pounds on clothes makeup and Tattoos as well as 85 000 pounds on top of the range sports cars Kelly spent a further 250 000 pounds on holidays to locations including Mexico and Euro Disney 118 thousand pounds on gifts to former boyfriends 190 000 pounds in unreturned loans to friends and family members and fifty thousand five hundred pounds on solicitors fees all of which being purchased while she was still in high school Kelly did make a few smart purchases such as an 180 000 pound Bungalow and a 96 000 pound home for her mom however by the end of the year Kelly was back to square one being on welfare with only two thousand pounds left in her account she since stated it was too much money for someone so young even if you say your life won't change it does and often not for the better yeah I just wish I was a bit older at the time of winning it because I think at 16 you're still just a child and overnight you've just got to grow up and become an adult which is probably why she's now an advocate for raising the UK's legal gambling age from 16 to 18. Kelly Rogers certainly spent her money poorly however at least she had the chance to spend it as 25 year old Amanda Clayton from Detroit was no longer Alive by the end of her spending spree when Amanda won the million dollar jackpot back in 2011 it seemed as though her life had been changed overnight however her win quickly became controversial after the media learned that she was still collecting food stamps and benefit payments despite having won the lottery Detroit woman is now the second Lotto winner in the state to keep taking food stamps after hitting it big and Amanda Clayton who won a million bucks and took home a 700 thousand dollar lump sum the 24 year old says even though she now owns two homes she figured she was still allowed to use a bridge card after being confronted about the behavior Amanda had the following to say I thought that they would cut me off but since they didn't I thought maybe it was okay because I'm not working and shortly thereafter she was charged with two felony counts of Welfare fraud and was ordered to pay back the 5 500 worth of food stamps she'd received while Amanda quickly paid the 5 500 back she never got the chance to spend the rest of the money as only six months later she would unfortunately overdose in one of her two homes he said she was tormented by the fame and the problems that came with winning the lottery it was the point of having morning if you're not going to have happiness he said she didn't want the money anymore and bought things for her family and set up college funds for her children he says she only had 67 thousand dollars of her winnings left the end to Amanda Clayton's story was somewhat unexpected however a two-second glance at Ryan McGee is more than enough to predict that this Lottery Win would eventually end in disaster after winning 6.4 million pounds back in 2008 at the age of 27. Ryan was placed on the Sunday Times top 100 rich list for young people he purchased a luxury mansion in his home country of Ireland which featured five bedrooms an indoor swimming pool a full Champagne Bar and a two-car garage where he kept his brand new Ferrari 458 Italia however as you might expect this is where things began to go terribly only three years after buying the Ferrari Ryan slipped off the road crashing the car into a field mainly because he was driving in the snow locals were amazed Ryan was driving the Ferrari in that weather especially when he had a more suitable Range Rover he could use the Ferrari was not understood to be running on winter tires which while costing around 4 400 pounds hugely boosts grip and handling in icy conditions Ryan's property development business then dissolved which was accompanied by a divorce from his wife and the sale of his luxury home then two years later Ryan McGee was pulled over driving an uninsured Ford Focus without a license however the most interesting part is that he had to claim legal aid which is a service for those who are unable to afford a lawyer now Ryan McGee was a complete idiot with his money however he still looks like Albert Einstein when compared to Martin tot when Martin and his wife K won 3 million pounds back in 2001 they didn't go in to claim the prize because well they had no idea that they were winners they'd purchased a ticket in passing completely forgotten about it and would only come to realize that they were the winners after hearing about the unclaimed prize over six months later the main problem was that at some point the ticket had been misplaced or thrown out completely despite frantically searching the pair couldn't find their ticket but was sure they had won because the jackpot numbers match the ones they used every week computer records in their local launders proved K really had purchased the ticket and the thrilled pair rushed to tell Lottery organizer Camelot to claim their prize but they fell victim to a little known rule stating lost tickets must be reported within 30 days after 45 days of deliberation Camelot told the devastated couple that they would not be collecting the jackpot and as a result the couple's marriage eventually came to an end we'd only known each other for two years and the lottery ordeal quickly highlighted our differences all we did was bicker sadly both of us agreed we should split and K moved out man seems to have convinced himself that losing the ticket ended up being a good thing having stated for a long time I lost sight of who I was and what I believed in but I can honestly say I'm glad I didn't get the 3 million now there is no guarantee it would have brought me happiness and if there's anyone else who would have agreed with this statement it definitely would have been the most miserable lottery winner of all time William post when William won a 16.2 million dollar jackpot back in 1988 he had just 2.46 in his bank account and was able to purchase the lucky ticket by selling a ring for forty dollars to a local pawn shop this in conjunction with the time he'd spent in jail for cashing invalid checks highlighted William post's awful money management skills and acted as foreshadowing for how poorly his Lottery Win was eventually going to be spent only 84 days after receiving the 16.2 million William post had spent the entire fortune on a boat a lease for a restaurant in Florida I used car lot as well as a private jet however even after all of the money had been spent pose took on a further 500 000 loan to purchase a mansion in Oil City Pennsylvania the problem was that William hadn't actually purchased the original ticket himself and had rather given the money to his girlfriend who had bought the winning ticket for him because of this she was able to successfully sue him for one third of the winnings meaning the post now owed 5.4 million to his ex-girlfriend from the 16.2 million that he no longer had since post was unable to make this payment the judge ordered that his bank account be frozen until he was able to come up with money however before he was able to sell enough stuff to pay the 5.4 million William was arrested in order to serve a 6 to 24 month prison term for an assault charge from six years prior toward the end of his life post was on his seventh marriage with over a million dollars in debt was getting by on food stamps at a job paying 450 per month however William post still doesn't have the craziest Lottery Win story of all time that total goes to Andrew Jackson Whittaker whose life would change Forever After winning 315 million back in 2002. unlike almost everyone else in this video Whitaker was actually quite successful prior to winning the lottery having built up a net worth of over 17 million with the assistance of his construction company and while this would imply that he was in a position to manage a large lottery win this isn't what would happen Whittaker instantly donated 10 of the winnings to Church's Christian groups and spent a further 14 million establishing the Jack Whitaker Foundation which provided free food and clothing for low-income families in West Virginia obviously you're doing God's work with all this money yes I am I'm helping a lot of people and I plan to help a lot more he then drove back to the convenience store where he had purchased the ticket before giving the clerk a forty four thousand dollar check 123 000 house and a brand new Jeep Cherokee which was followed by Whitaker buying himself a Lamborghini in which he'd drive around his neighborhood throwing money out of the window after flaunting this wealth his Lamborghini was broken into where thieves stole 545 000 in cash however this apparently wasn't much of a wake-up call as his car was then broken into for the second time resulting in the loss of a further two hundred thousand dollars cash Jack Whittaker's granddaughter passed away his daughter then passed away which was followed by a divorce with his wife and now you've lost your granddaughter you're about to be divorced from your wife where does this ever end leading him to state that he had lost everything I pretty much lost everything I thought out there in my life you got lots of money money is money money has never meant anything to me you have to have money to exist in this world but money money doesn't rule the world money money is not what makes people happy and that he wished he had never purchased the lottery ticket in the first place my wife had said she wished that she'd told him to take it up well I wish that we had told him to take it up too I just don't like what I've become

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 17 2022