1.35B Lottery winner's family turns against him in messy lawsuit

[Astroslik]

If you currently have MUCH worse problems than I described above, then you probably should be focusing your assets on addressing your problems, not piss them away playing the lottery. Your odds of winning any particular lottery ticket are about 1 in 300,000,000, which means you're over 100x more likely to be hit by lightning this year than hit the #'s right.

It doesn't make sense either way. If you're doing good in life, then why waste your hard-earned money on a pipe dream when that pipe dream is just as likely to fukk up your life as it is to improve it? And if you're doing poorly in life, shouldn't you be devoting every spare dollar towards improving your situation rather than throwing it into one of the worst-odds gambling options out there?

Spoiler

Besides, Jesus basically said the rich are shut out of heaven, and there aren't much worse problems to deal with than that.

Not sure what this has to do with my point. Id rather deal with rich problems than being broke and struggling paycheck to paycheck.


Btw everyone knows the lottery is a regressive tax. I never said it was a good idea to play often. But if on the chance you DO win, I’d rather deal with those problems than being broke and struggling.

 

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Seems impossible, but the big winners can blow it all the same way the small winners often do.

Andrew "Jack" Whittaker | The Tragic Stories of the Lottery’s Unluckiest Winners | TIME.com

Need a little proof that money doesn't buy happiness? For these 10 lottery winners, cashing in turned out to have been the worst decision of their lives.

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In 2002, Jack Whittaker won the biggest lottery jackpot in history to that point, a Powerball worth $315 million ($550 million in today's dollars). He chose the immediate cash option, and kept an after-tax haul of $200 million in today's dollars. He had pledged to be generous with charity, and soon got hit with thousands of requests for help, many of which were likely scammers. Though he was a successful businessman before the lottery win, his business fell apart due to over 400 lawsuits against him after his win became famous. He started drinking heavily, spent his time at strip clubs, was robbed repeatedly, and had multiple family members die of drug overdoses. I'll let Time finish it off:

But even Whittaker couldn’t escape his own demons. Beset by legal difficulties and personal problems, he began drinking heavily and frequenting strip clubs. On Aug. 5, 2003, thieves stole $545,000 from his car in a West Virginia strip club parking lot while he was inside. On Jan. 25, 2004, robbers once again broke into his car, stealing an estimated $200,000 in cash that was later recovered. And a string of personal tragedies followed. On Sept. 17, 2004, his granddaughter’s boyfriend was found dead from a drug overdose in Whittaker’s home. Three months later, the granddaughter also died of a drug overdose. Her mother, Ginger Whittaker Bragg, died five years later on July 5, 2009. Whittaker himself is alleged to be broke — a claim he made as early as January 2007 for failing to pay a women who successfully sued him. He’s also being sued by Caesars Atlantic City casino for bouncing $1.5 million worth of checks to cover gambling losses. “I wish I’d torn that ticket up,” he sobbed to reporters at the time of his daughter’s death.


Four years after that excerpt was written, Whittaker's house burned down and his wife barely made it out alive. It was not covered by insurance. He got ill not long afterwards and died in 2020.

I read that first one.

It does not say that he spent all of the money.



And if he had 500M he would still have had more than he actually won (200M) at his point of (alledged) brokedness

 

[degu9089]

When my great grandma died, I had a necklace from her that I picked up while the family was cleaning out her house.

My aunt literally snatched it out my hand and told me it should belong to her. It was worthless and I couldn't have neen older than 7 or 8 years. I have nothing from my great grandmother because of her blind greed. That was 25+ years ago. I have never forgotten that shyt and never will.

She claims she doesn't remember. I don't fukk with her until this day.

My Great Uncle upon his deathbed confessed to stealing the inheritance his father had left for their generation of kids. It was like $20k, a lot of money in 1968 when he stole it. he passed in 2006 and it’s been brought up at every family reunion since, getting cursed by ladies in their 90s with such vigor and hatred.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Taxes bruh IRS gonna get their cut...

700m, absolute crooks