Cursed tales of Lottery winners and why money can't buy you happiness | H7V025O | 2024-02-25 11:08:01
A Lancashire couple thought their £61 million EuroMillions jackpot was a scam.
Whereas Richard and Debbie Nuttall's prize has proven to be real, many previous lottery winners have been linked with a 'Lotto curse' that sends their lives in a pricey spiral.
Profitable the lottery can have a big and sustained constructive impression on people who bag the jackpots, in response to research revealed in The Review of Economic Studies.
However for some fortunate gamers, the victory spells doom. Among their tragic tales are tales of deception, demise and desperation. Some lost their houses, cash and relationships.
Mark Lipsham
Kiwi truck driver Mark Lipsham give up his job the day after profitable £10 million on the Powerball in 2017.
However the high of victory quickly wore off when individuals close to him, and even individuals he hadn't heard from in years, started pestering him for money.
His prize pot was dwindling, and so was his hope. He advised news.com.au: 'It acquired pretty dangerous. It threw me right into a state of melancholy, stress, frustration.'
Things began to lookup when a neighbour launched Lipsham to clairvoyant Kim Helmbright who provided to counsel him and manage his monetary and authorized affairs.
By 2020, Helmbright turned out to be extra alleged conwoman than clairvoyant.
As an alternative of investing £1.5million in a house for Lipsham, Helmbright simply vanished and spent it on herself, the person from New Zealand claimed.
He stated: 'I assumed it was good help. In the long run, it actually wasn't assist at all. I truly acquired conned and out of quite a lot of money.'
Jane Park
EuroMillions winner Jane Park was pictured smiling in the embrace of a convicted killer she was courting in 2023.
Park, from Edinburgh, was Britain's youngest ever lottery winner when she bagged £1 million in 2013, on the age of 17.
Her wealth has grown to round £3 million, but she regrets ever profitable, saying her life feels empty regardless of material possessions.
She informed the Sunday People: 'At occasions it seems like profitable the lottery has ruined my life.
'I assumed it will make it& ten occasions higher nevertheless it's made it ten occasions worse.'
Her troubles continued when ex-boyfriend Marc Webley was shot dead while celebrating New Year's Eve at his local pub.
Webley had beforehand been sentenced to 11 years in jail for capturing a gangland rival in 2005.
He was subsequently given a six-month sentence for trying to intimidate a person into giving him £1,000, LBC reported. He was cleared of double murder in 2022.
After he died, Park wrote on Instagram: 'If I might cuddle you once more and inform you every part is going to be ok, I might give something to do it Marc.'
Adrian and Gillian Bayford
Married couple Adrian and Gillian Bayford have been pictured popping champagne after profitable a whopping £148 million within the lottery in 2012.
Such a large prize pot made them the UK's third largest winners ever.
They've since separated and had a string of turbulent relationships.
Gillian was convicted of threatening her ex-boyfriend Gavin Innes throughout a trial in 2020.
She pushed, shouted at and struggled with the domestic abuse charity worker on two separate occasions in October 2017, The Mirror reported.
The courtroom additionally heard she'd been subjected to a campaign of on-line abuse and false allegations to social work, her golf membership and a youngsters's charity. Innes denied the allegations.
Adrian began a relationship with ex-horse groom Samantha Burbidge, a lady 16 years younger than him, in 2017.
He also dated waitress Lisa Kemp, however she dumped him after discovering saucy messages sent to his ex Marta Jarosz.
In 2019, Adrian stated he eats 50 Cornish pasties delivered to his mansion each week to cope with his loneliness.
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Margaret Loughrey
The Northern Irish lady's life spiralled after profitable almost £27 million within the EuroMillions in 2013.
She isolated herself from her family after giving them £1 million each and subsequently ended up sectioned in hospital towards her will. She was launched on attraction.
In 2015, she was convicted of assaulting a taxi driver and ordered to do 150 hours of group service.
Three years later she misplaced an employment tribunal and was ordered to pay £30,000 to an ex-employee for bullying and sacking him on a 'vindictive whim'.
Loughrey advised Sunday Life the jackpot had 'sent her to hell and back' and brought her 'nothing however grief'.
She stated: 'It has destroyed my life. I've had six years of this. I don't consider in religion, but if there is a hell, I've been in it.
'It has been that dangerous. I went right down to five-and-a-half stone.'
Loughrey was found dead in her bungalow in Strabane, Co Tyrone in 2021.
Lee Ryan
The so-called 'Lotto lag' spent each penny of the £6.5 million National Lottery jackpot he gained in 1995.
He splashed the cash on helicopter, flashy automobiles and a mansion before being convicted of handling stolen automobiles in 1996.
After splitting together with his wife and shifting to Kyrgyzstan together with his new girlfriend, Lee misplaced £2 million in failed business ventures and property investments earlier than returning to London penniless.
He subsequently spent two years homeless.
Lee stated: 'The cash was cursed as a result of I took the p*** out of God once I asked him to make me a multimillionaire.
'My cellmate warned me to watch out what I wanted for.'
Colin Weir
Colin Weir and his wife Chris, from Largs in North Ayrshire, gained £161 million prize in 2011.
The couple blew by means of a mean of £100,000 each week over the subsequent eight years, splurging on automobiles, property and a controlling stake in his Colin's soccer membership, MailOnline reported.
Some was given to household, pals and charities, or invested in property.
By 2019, the couple confirmed they might divorce after 38 years of marriage.
Just some months later, Colin died of sepsis and an acute kidney damage.
Fred and Lesley Higgins
For Aberdeenshire couple Fred and Lesley Higgins, their millionaire journey almost completed earlier than it started when a shop attendant tore up their ticket believing they weren't winners.
But the ticket machine informed them to maintain the ticket and call Camelot, operator of the UK National Lottery.
After the company completed checks to ensure they have been respectable claimants of the jackpot, the couple found they'd gained £57.9 million, although they initially thought it was simply £5.7 million.
It's yet to be seen whether their plans to maneuver abroad to France of the Caribbean will spiral into catastrophe.
Fred stated: 'We had a very snug life before the win however we did have goals of dwelling overseas.'
Susanne Hinte
Probably the most infamous National Lottery winners never gained the lotto in any respect.
Susanne Hinte, from Worcester, claimed to be one in every of two winners of a record-breaking £66 million jackpot in January 2016.
The grandmother referred to as Sanne produced a crumpled ticket after two weeks of thriller surrounding the id of the second winner.
The German-born lady claimed it had been put by means of the wash in the pocket of her denims. However the ticket was so badly broken, solely the profitable numbers have been seen.
The actual winner later came ahead, choosing to stay anonymous, and Hinte's claim was dismissed.
After the confusion cleared, she stated: 'I needed to be lifeless. I couldn't understand why abruptly I was hated by so many people. I didn't do anything fallacious.'
She was adopted by authorized troubles within the following yr, showing in courtroom accused of stealing a lady's purse. She was cleared following a 3 day trial in Birmingham.
Hinte died at the age of 49 after suffering a suspected heart attack at her residence in August 2017.
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