I remember seeing a show about lottery winners and one guy in Florida had bought a nice house, vehicles, statues of the Blues Brothers and other “art”. Yep, he was living the life.
A while later I saw another show about the lottery winner horror stories.... guess who was on it after losing everything??
If you’re talking about the person I think you are, I am loosely related to that guy. (My mom is his second cousin, I think). He won over $42 million in 2001 and is, as we speak, bed-ridden, ruined from a life of heroin and meth use. (I can’t confirm, but I think he lost his legs - as in amputated - from the drug abuse). He’s literally penniless.
He lost his multimillion dollar, Florida home because he failed to pay the home association dues and they auctioned it, per the regulations.
My all time fave is the guy, year's ago, in NY, Curits something....who won like $50 mil and shows up the next day to claim his prize, in a limo, dressed in a tuxedo, with a bowler hat, his wife, AND his girlfriend...whe that story broke, the over/under on how long before he went broke was about 10 years..it was less.l.
David Lee Edwards, a laid-off laborer in 2001 when he won $42 million from a $295 million Powerball drawing in Kentucky and moved to Palm Beach Gardens, appears to have the kind of financial problems that he never should have faced again.
http://thetimestribune.com/editorials/x1065235794/David-Edwards-Another-lottery-loser
Edwards won a $41 million Powerball and took home $27 million in August of 2001. Six years later, the money was apparently gone.
Edwards was evicted from his $1.2 million home in Palm Beach Garden, Fla. for not paying his association dues. Shortly thereafter, Edwards was evicted from a storage unit that he was apparently living in. The items in storage were auctioned to pay Edwards’ storage fees.