You will hardly ever understand the crazy things people have done after winning the lottery or why they did them. Nonetheless, you can trust that many in the past have done really dumb and crazy stuff. Interestingly, many people in the future would repeat the mistakes.
Fascinatingly, you’ll realize that age doesn’t really cut it when it comes to how carelessly people lose their money after winning the lottery. In this post, you’d see how both young and old people have done very crazy things after winning the lottery.
Some things these people have done, they wouldn’t normally do if they had worked for the money. After blowing off the money, some of them have revealed that their lives are much easier without the money won.
10 Crazy Things People Have Done After Winning The Lottery
1. Evelyn Adams (Lost to Gambling)
The luxury of winning the lottery doesn’t come to many people. Winning it twice, on the other hand, is mostly unheard of. Well, Evelyn Adams didn’t just win once but got to win twice, in 1985 and 1986.
The massive gambler took home close to $6 million in combined earnings. Unfortunately, she soon lost her money to foolish generosity and gambling. Interestingly, before the year 2000, she was not only broke but without a home.
This is reason enough to place her at the top spot on crazy things people have done after winning the lottery.
2. Gerald Muswagon (Partying)
In 1998, Muswagon won a jackpot of $10 million in the Super 7 jackpot lottery. The life of the man immediately changed as he decided to pamper himself with a new house and a new car, and he bought new cars for his friends.
Although he tried making a few investments, the man decided to put even more money into partying and drinking. Apart from that, he couldn’t seem to stay off crime as he had himself slugging it out with the law at different times. Soon enough, the man was without money and his life took a turn for the worse. Because of this, he decided to end it all by hanging himself in 2017.
3. Vivian Nicholson (Clothes)
Nicholson decided to do things completely different from almost all others after winning the lottery. Immediately after she won the lottery in 1951, she didn’t hide the fact that she wanted to spend all her earnings on living the good life.
The only thing was that the luxurious life for her was all about clothes and it was on it that Viv Nicholson spent a large chunk of the £152,319 she won together with her husband. The money which today is valued at over £3 million almost completely ran out before her husband died.
Because her husband was the one who actually won the lottery, she later lost all she had to his estate. However, she was to later win back £34,000 but went on to lose it in wild spending and legal fees among other things. Soon Nicholson, like others, was forced to declare bankruptcy.
The former wealthy woman, Vivian Nicholson, died on 11 April 2015. She however earned a spot on the list of crazy things people have done after winning the lottery.
4. Michael Carroll (Fashion, Booze, Party)
If you ever come by the name “King of Chavs” of “Lotto Lout”, this is the man. He was so fortunate in November 2002, or maybe unfortunate to hit upon a jackpot that made him close to 10 million pounds rich when he was only 19. At this time, he didn’t even have a bank account.
Immediately he got the money his lifestyle changed massively and he began a spending spree on almost everything that came his way.
The man spent massively on booze, new houses, partying, hookers, drugs, and everything else that makes the life of a celebrity. Oh and he also said he gave out as much as £4 million to family and friends, but many weren’t even satisfied.
More so, he wasn’t clear of crime as he was jailed twice with respect to drug offenses and affray. By 2011, the King of Chavs had already blown his money away and was looking to restart his life. That forced him to get a job in a biscuit factory and later in a slaughterhouse.
5. Jonathan Vargas (Wrestling)
When Jonathan Vargas won a $35 million jackpot in 2008, he immediately knew he was going to do something great for his mother, and he bought a house for her. Next, he decided to employ an accountant, a lawyer, and a financial consultant. Another great thing.
The next thing that he did after winning the lottery was to buy his own wrestling show as he wanted to go into female wrestling promotion. The show which was called Wrestlicious wasn’t your normal kind of wrestling. The show had semi-clothed women fighting for the prize, and ironically, it had some comedy in it.
Unfortunately for Jonathan Vargas, many people took the show as a joke and the whole thing sank. Jonathan Vargas hit the jackpot when he was only 19, and before the age of 21, the man had already lost it all.
6. Abraham Lee Shakespeare (Lost it to Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore)
This was supposed to be a collection of crazy things people have done after winning theLottery, but the case of Shakespeare is different. it is more like a tragedy from the works of William after Abraham Lee won $30 million. He was a casual laborer aged 40 when he won the big money in 2006.
Soon afterward, he was paid $17 million, but then he came upon a woman, Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore who promised she was going to help him with his finances. By 2009, the man who was illiterate was nowhere to be found.
However, his friends and people close to him kept receiving text messages purportedly from him. Investigations began in search of him, and it was later discovered that the man was dead and buried in Moore’s backyard, and it was she who had been using his house and sending messages to his friends.
Dorice was convicted of Abraham Lee Shakespeare’s murder in 2012. She was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. By this time, the entire money was gone.
7. Callie Rogers (Breast Implants and Drugs)
She was only 16 when she won £1.9 million in the UK Lotto in 2003, making her the youngest winner in the United Kingdom. The moment she hit the cash, the girl went wild and decided soon enough that her breasts could be made much better.
This decision to have her breasts worked on led her to spend £11,500 on two boob jobs. Like most other winners, she hit the roads on a spending spree, buying cars, clothes, and as much as a quarter a million on drugs. Soon, she was left with only £2,000 in her bank account, and attempted to commit suicide twice.
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8. Jose Antonio Cua-Toc: (Gave Ticket to His Boss to Cash for Him)
Not many people would ever think to give their bosses their winning lottery ticket to cash it out for them, but that is the exact thing that Jose Antonio Cua-Toc did. Before you rush to call him dumb, the man was actually in a fix because he was an illegal immigrant into the United States.
As such, he was scared that if he tried cashing the money himself he would be caught. The result of his action is that his boss, Erick Cervantes, didn’t only claim the money for himself and his family, but he also ensured that the 27-year-old from Guatemala was locked for a falsified terroristic charge. Thanks to his lawyer, Antonio Cua-Toc was able to reclaim both freedom and his money ($750,000), even though his boss had already spent a large chunk of it, with only $300,000 remaining in the lottery funds.
9. Jack Whittaker: (Lost $545,000 in a Strip Club)
A West Virginian native won a whopping $315 million in the Powerball lottery in 2002. As with a couple of people already discussed in the cause of this article, he went ahead to spend his winning on frivolities. He ended up regretting a lot of choices and decisions.
Probably celebrating his huge win, Jack Whittaker went on to spend a huge amount of $545,000 in a strip club. People have done crazy things after becoming rich but this one deserved a special spot on top crazy things people have done after winning the lottery.
10. Etta May Urquhart: (Lost Her Ticket to Her Son)
No direct fault of hers this may be but still, it is a sad way to (not) spend money you toiled so long for. Etta spent about 20 years of her life playing the lottery. In 2011, luck smiled at her and she won $51 million.
Of course, she would share with her family, right? Etta May Urquhart did and received a huge shock afterward. Her son gave her a rude shock when he took her winning ticket and claimed her win.
Want to know what’s crazier? Urquhart’s son went on bizarre shopping sprees. He bought as many as 10 cars and 4 houses with his mother’s lottery win.
This lifestyle did not last for long as he was caught and sued by his mother for fraud and abuse.
