Cursed tales of Lottery winners and why money can't buy you happiness | I5PK05B | 2024-02-24 11:08:01
A Lancashire couple thought their £61 million EuroMillions jackpot was a rip-off.
While Richard and Debbie Nuttall's prize has proven to be real, many earlier 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 individuals who bag the jackpots, based on analysis revealed in The Review of Economic Studies.
But for some lucky gamers, the victory spells doom. Among their tragic tales are stories of deception, demise and desperation. Some lost their houses, money and relationships.
Mark Lipsham
Kiwi truck driver Mark Lipsham give up his job the day after profitable £10 million on the Powerball in 2017.
But the excessive of victory quickly wore off when individuals near him, and even individuals he hadn't heard from in years, started pestering him for cash.
His prize pot was dwindling, and so was his hope. He advised news.com.au: 'It obtained fairly 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 financial and authorized affairs.
By 2020, Helmbright turned out to be extra alleged conwoman than clairvoyant.
As an alternative of investing £1.5million in a home for Lipsham, Helmbright merely 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 in any respect. I truly received conned and out of fairly some huge cash.'
Jane Park
EuroMillions winner Jane Park was pictured smiling within 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, at the age of 17.
Her wealth has grown to around £3 million, but she regrets ever profitable, saying her life feels empty despite material possessions.
She informed the Sunday People: 'At occasions it seems like profitable the lottery has ruined my life.
'I assumed it might make it& ten occasions better however 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 man into giving him £1,000, LBC reported. He was cleared of double homicide in 2022.
After he died, Park wrote on Instagram: 'If I might cuddle you once more and inform you all the things goes 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 employee 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 started a relationship with ex-horse groom Samantha Burbidge, a lady 16 years youthful 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 deal with his loneliness.
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Margaret Loughrey
The Northern Irish lady's life spiralled after profitable almost £27 million in the EuroMillions in 2013.
She isolated herself from her household 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 lost an employment tribunal and was ordered to pay £30,000 to an ex-employee for bullying and sacking him on a 'vindictive whim'.
Loughrey informed Sunday Life the jackpot had 'sent her to hell and again' and introduced her 'nothing however grief'.
She stated: 'It has destroyed my life. I've had six years of this. I don't consider in faith, but if there's 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 every 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 dealing with stolen automobiles in 1996.
After splitting together with his spouse and shifting to Kyrgyzstan together with his new girlfriend, Lee lost £2 million in failed enterprise ventures and property investments before returning to London penniless.
He subsequently spent two years homeless.
Lee stated: 'The cash was cursed because I took the p*** out of God once I asked him to make me a multimillionaire.
'My cellmate warned me to be careful what I wanted for.'
Colin Weir
Colin Weir and his spouse Chris, from Largs in North Ayrshire, gained £161 million prize in 2011.
The couple blew by way 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 club, MailOnline reported.
Some was given to family, 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 keep the ticket and name Camelot, operator of the UK National Lottery.
After the corporate accomplished checks to make sure they have been reputable claimants of the jackpot, the couple discovered they'd gained £57.9 million, although they initially thought it was just £5.7 million.
It's yet to be seen whether or not their plans to move overseas to France of the Caribbean will spiral into catastrophe.
Fred stated: 'We had a very snug life earlier than the win but we did have goals of dwelling abroad.'
Susanne Hinte
One of the infamous National Lottery winners by no means gained the lotto in any respect.
Susanne Hinte, from Worcester, claimed to be one among two winners of a record-breaking £66 million jackpot in January 2016.
The grandmother generally known 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 within the pocket of her jeans. But the ticket was so badly damaged, only the profitable numbers have been seen.
The actual winner later got here 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 perceive why rapidly I used to be hated by so many individuals. I didn't do something incorrect.'
She was adopted by authorized troubles within the following yr, appearing 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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