If you're lucky enough to win the lottery someday make sure you spend your money right.
John Kutey won a share of the $319 million prize offered in the Mega Million lottery in 2011 along with six other people. His share was $28.7 million. He and his wife decided to spend $250,000 on demolishing a local pool and installing a huge spray park along with donating $200,000 to help build a water park in New York.
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Robert Erb won $25 million in 2012 Legalizing Weed and spent a lot of that money on charitable causes and... $1 million to support organizations for marijuana legalization.
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Michael Carroll from the UK began to spend his $15.8 million winnings incredibly quickly. He was rumored to have spent around $3,000 on cocaine every day, he also bought several luxury cars and crashed them on a homemade racetrack. This eventually led to Carroll having to sell his mansion after losing almost all of his wealth.
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The winner of a Powerball prize of $590 million, Gloria Mackenzie gave $2 million to... her old high school.
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Vivian Nicholson won the lottery in the UK in 1961. She spent most of that fortune on expensive designer clothing. She declared bankrupcy four years later.
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Gerald Muswagon won $10 million on the Super 7 jackpot lottery in 1998. He spent his whole fortune on organizing parties and lost his winnings very fast.
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Jonathan Vargas spent his $35 million lottery winnings on a brand new house for his mom and... his own wrestling television show. It was called Wrestlicious, and featured scantily clad women fighting in a specially built pink ring. Strangely, it didn't become a success.
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South Korean immigrant Janite Lee won $18 million in a lottery. She gave out the vast majority of it to a number of causes such as education programs, charities and political organizations. After giving away millions of dollars, she eventually went bankrupt.
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Suzanne Mullins won a large amount of money from the U.S. lotto,but it was paid out in annual payments. She decided to get a huge loan she would slowly pay off, but she struggled to do so and the debt grew until it was worth more than her actual lottery winnings.
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Evelyn Adams managed to win the lottery twice in the space of two years, netting almost $6 million in the process. She lost it all in Atlantic City casinos. She now lives in a trailer.