9 Lottery Winners Who Lost Millions (Mega Million)
In 2002, Jack Whittaker won the $314 million Powerball jackpot, which was the largest lottery win in history at the time.
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Lara and Roger Griffiths divorced less than a decade after winning a $2.19 million lottery jackpot.
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David Lee Edwards of Kentucky was penniless and living in a storage shed with his wife five years after winning a $27 million jackpot.
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Mickey Carroll was only 19 years old when he won a British lottery for the equivalent of $11.8 million.
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Rogers was only 16 years old when she won the equivalent of $2.3 million in 2003. She had only around $2,500 in the bank a decade later, in 2013.
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Curtis Sharp won $5 million in the New York lottery in 1982. Unfortunately, his narrative was one of poverty to riches and back again.
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Evelyn Adams made lottery history in 1985 and 1986 when she won two multimillion-dollar wins in New Jersey. Her total winnings were $5.4 million.
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Despite winning $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery in 1988, William "Bud" Post died penniless in 2006.
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Lisa Arcand of Massachusetts won a cool $1 million in the lotto in 2004. In less than four years, it was all gone.
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