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Posted on 01/12/2016 5:28:04 AM PST by lowbridge
Nearly 70% of lottery winners end up broke within seven years. Even worse, several winners have died tragically or witnessed those close to them suffer.
Edward Ugel, author of the book "Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions," told the Daily Beast of the thousands of lottery winners he's known, few were happy and only a small number lived happily ever after.
"You would be blown away to see how many winners wish they'd never won," Ugel said.
One of those unlucky winners was Abraham Shakespeare. Just weeks before Shakespeare was killed, he told his mother he wished he never won.
Shakespeare hit big for $30 million in 2006, causing friends and family to hound him for money.
He befriended Dorice (Dee Dee) Moore who tricked Shakespeare into believing she was trying to protect him from the greedy people around him.
Moore convinced the lottery winner to transfer his assets to her before he went missing in 2009. In 2012, she was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for his murder by a judge who called her "cold, calculating and cruel."
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No, no, no. You forgot. First invest the 400 million, and then give from the income that it generates.
Yeah, I’d hate to win millions of dollars!
No, the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics states that the innate perversity of inanimate objects tends to a maximum.
For proof, try removing a rusty bolt from a space where you can just barely get a wrench on it.
Drugs seem to be a common thread in all these tragedies.
You are off on your math. a million times a million is not a billion, but a trillion. $1 billion divided by 300 million people is only about $3.33.
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