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"Lottery Romeo" Carl Crompton, 11 million
Karl on the day of the win and now.
Carl Crompton from Great Britain won in 1996 about 11 million (more 800 million rubles). And the paparazzi loved to chase him terribly. Everything is very simple: Karl had the appearance of a playboy, and after winning began to lead the life of a rock star: buy expensive bikes, Porsche and Ferrari, designer outfits and throw noisy parties. For his catchy appearance he was nicknamed "Lottery Romeo", and for wealth - one of the most eligible suitors in Great Britain.
So would Karl, probably, and wasted all the money, but at some point miraculously took up my mind. He invested the remaining funds in real estate and managed to 2 multiply your winnings. Karl married a former classmate, built a house with a pool and says, that now I'm completely happy.
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Gopnik King Mickey Carol, 10 million
Mickey with money and after, how did you waste it.
19-Mickey Carol's summer scavenger from Scotland 2002 won 10 million (more 700 million rubles). And then it started: he hung himself with kilogram gold spilliks, bought for 700 thousand. an elite mansion with a pool and began to arrange drunken orgies there: liquor, drugs, girls. Once he and his friends rode the streets and launched steel balls from a catapult, smashing 32 other people's cars.
Journalists nicknamed Mickey "Lottery boor" and "King of the Gopniks". After a few years of riotous life, the money ran out. The estate turned into a trash heap, which I barely managed to sell for only 100 thousand. IN 2010 year Mickey handed out debts and remained at a broken trough. Since then, he managed to work as a scavenger, renovated and finished houses. Here's a cautionary tale. But Mickey himself says: "I do not regret anything".
History 9. $315 million – love of striptease
2002 the year was a rich year for catastrophic mistakes for lottery winners. Jack Whittaker (Jack Whittaker) from West Virginia wins the American Powerball lottery, He won 315 million dollars. He led the same destructive lifestyle as Carroll., Whittaker spent a lot of money on strip clubs. Before you win the lottery, Jack was already a rich man. You can often meet rich people, who squander fortunes on women and strip clubs. It was because of his hobbies that our lucky one made the fatal mistake. About a year after winning the lottery, Jack was at a strip club in West Virginia with a suitcase of money., which was 545 thousands of dollars. He did it “because he could”. He left a suitcase full of cash in his car. Thieves broke the glass and stole it. Because of this incident, strip club managers were charged with trying to drug Jack and steal his suitcase of money.
The stripper won the lottery
In conclusion, we will briefly give a number of stories:
– IN 1998 year on Michael Klinbel (Michael Klingebiel) sued by her own mother, with which he did not share two million, won in the lottery.- Evelyn Adams (Evelyn Adams) from New Jersey to 1985 and 86 years won 1 million seven hundred thousand and three million seven hundred thousand respectively. — $5,4 million dollars. For a couple of years, she lost every penny in the casino.- Ken Proxmayr (Ken Proxmire), from Michigan, machinist, won 1 million dollars. Having moved to another state, he opened a business selling cars. However, after a few years, he went bankrupt and eventually became a machinist again.- Willie Hert (Willie Hurt) from Michigan won over three million in 1989 year. He gave part of the funds to his wife, now the former. The main part went to cocaine. Eventually, after two years he didn't have a cent left, and he got it for murder.- IN 1993 Janit Lee (Janite Lee) hit the jackpot 18 million dollars $ in the Missouri lottery. She gave money to the poor, educational institutions, churches, benefactors and everything, who asked. And through 10 years she has only five hundred dollars left.
Fire, water and 506 million
5 November 2017, a record amount was drawn in the history of Russian lotteries - 506 million rubles. But the winner didn't show up for the money. "Russian Post" was looking for a millionaire throughout the country. It turned out, that a lucky ticket was bought in the working village of Panino in the Voronezh region. After this news, fortune hunters were drawn there - queues were lined up at the post office for lotteries. true, no one is so lucky, as 63-year-old Natalia Vlasova.
At that time, the pensioner had no idea, that they are looking for her. The ticket was gathering dust in the sideboard. It was checked by a 10-year-old granddaughter and was wrong, thought, that there is no win. Pass to the new, happy life almost ended up in the trash can.
Natalya Vlasova worked all her life in Gosstrakh - constant business trips, routine. And the pension turned out to be small, order 8 000 rubles. Husband, also a pensioner, received a little more. The daughter served as a secretary in court - how much do state employees earn?? And the child also grows in the family, means, need money.
- It's impossible to buy anything on retirement ... So I baked pies and sold them, - Natalya Vlasova will tell later in a single interview with RIA Voronezh. Almost every day she drove pastries to the bus station by bike. Everything was disassembled - delicious.
Lotteries were hope for Natalia. She bought tickets for every holiday over the years - on New Year's Eve and on her birthday..
Learning, what is the jackpot owner looking for in Panino, Natalia asked her daughter to check the ticket again. Winnings! The amount threw her into confusion. Several times she and her daughter called the hotline and clarified everything. It seemed, extra zeros were added to the sum.
I had to urgently fly to Moscow, paperwork. It turned out, what's nothing.
- I borrowed boots, jacket. Good, that I know everyone in the market, they dressed me up. I, true, did not say, why are you going to Moscow, - Natalia recalled.
Natalia Vlasova. Photo: Andrey Arkhipov /riavrn.ru
At the request of the organizers, Natalia and her daughter gave a TV interview. They didn't know, that you can refuse it. The program was shown on one of the federal TV channels.
The Vlasovs began to receive money at the beginning 2019 of the year, tranches. Even before receiving the win, Natalia shared her plans with the journalists:
- First I will repair my house. Then I will help my daughters with housing. I will buy a good car for my husband, so that he can go fishing in any weather. And charity, of course, I'll do ...
A year and a half after the win, the Vlasov family lives modestly, quiet. Doesn't give interviews - not to federal channels, no local newspaper. Fellow villagers don't really know anything about the changes in Natalia's life. Doesn't he ride a bicycle around the village anymore. She and her husband bought an SUV. Yes, and there is no time to talk with neighbors - business.
- Natalia Vlasova is not going to leave Panino. Now her family is building two houses in the village.. Natalia herself did not harden after winning, helps people. Learned, that her ex-neighbor's husband had cancer - gave money for surgery and treatment. I heard, that the son of a postal worker has lung cancer, also offered financial assistance. But the man at that time was treated for free, so his family refused. Unfortunately, he died. The Vlasovs paid for his funeral, - told "Pravmir" in the Paninsky regional newspaper "Nash Krai".
An acquaintance of Natalia, on condition of anonymity, said, that she supported the parish of the Church of the Kazan Mother of God in Panino. There this information was confirmed.
Jackpot c “Golden horseshoe”
Real lottery winners in Russia sometimes share their stories in great detail. Evgenia and Dmitry, residents of the city of Svetlograd, Stavropol Territory, won a jackpot of 3,5 million rubles in the lottery “Golden horseshoe” – coincided 5 digits.
The family got the ticket as a gift – Evgenia's parents gave her “lottery” on 8 Martha. When she saw, that crossed out all five announced first digits, I could not immediately believe in what happened – cried and laughed at the same time. Until, until the money was transferred to their account, Svetlograd lottery winners in Russia did not believe, that this is a real win. Evgenia shares, that she also was not rightfully the owner of the entire amount – 13% goes to the state treasury as income tax.
Family of Dmitry and Eugenia – large, and at the time of winning their financial situation was not the best – credits, debts, since recently bought a new house. Therefore, part of the won amount was spent on paying off debts.. The family also bought an apartment in Stavropol, changed my car to a more comfortable one. The win also encouraged Eugene and Dmitry to start their own business: Svetlograd lottery winners in Russia opened their own print shop, small pet shop.
Talking about fame after a monetary victory, Evgenia shares, that they wrote to her for a long time on the page in “Classmates” strangers from all over the country – asked about the reality of winning. In a small hometown, news also spread quickly: someone came up on the street with congratulations, someone asked to borrow money. Many rushed to buy lottery tickets.
The winner says, that winning her at first motivated her to buy new “lotteries”, but since large sums were no longer drawn, she gave up this venture.
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Former bus driver Peter Lavery, 10 million
Peter Léveri of Belfast, even though an ordinary bus driver, managed to do very competently with money. He started investing in business and opened several businesses. The most famous was the Cooley whiskey distillery, first in Belfast in recent 75 years. Under the distillery, he bought the old building of the prison "Crumlin Road" in Belfast. Peter invested about 5 million and, among other things, opened a tasting room and a restaurant there 200 places.
Here he produces Danny Boy, chic single malt whiskey 15 years old. “I work harder, than before winning, Says Peter. - But I'm happy, and my plant is like another lottery prize ".
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"We didn't feel like millionaires"
- Lotteries let you live your dreams. My father buys these tickets all his life. And never checks right away, is there a win. I ask: “Dad, why do you need that? There is no sense ... "And he told me: “I walk and think: can, I won. And so good ", - says Maxim Nikityuk from Omsk.
His father has never had any luck. And to Maxim himself in 2015 a ticket bought by accident brought a million rubles.
- It was an accident. Walking with a newborn son, wife in store, and we are waiting for her at the lottery kiosk. I buy a ticket for the first time in my life - just in my pocket 50 rubles lying around. And then I forget about him, - recalls Artem in a conversation with the correspondent of "Pravmir".
A week later, Nikityuki found a ticket in a baby carriage. Checked, before throwing away. And there the win is an apartment. Keys are not given to anyone after the lottery. According to the rules, the winner receives the par value of the property. In Maxim's case, it was a million rubles.. He and his wife confess, that the news shocked them.
Maxim believed in the reality of what was happening already in Moscow - he wrote a statement, gave the ticket for verification and began to wait. A month later, the promised money was transferred to his bank card - the entire amount at once.
- The loved ones were very happy for us. But I think, there were those, who hated me after winning. I felt it, - recalls the winner.
Maxim Nikityuk. Photo from the site chel.kp.ru
Previously, the Nikityuk family did not have such big money. Maxim and Natasha got married a year ago, raised a son. He worked in the ventilation and heating systems workshop, where he serves to this day. They saved up for housing - saved from salary, sold the car to Maxim and Natasha a room in a hostel. Hoping to buy a one-room apartment in Omsk.
- We didn't feel like millionaires. Did not have time. Immediately invested almost the entire amount in the purchase of an apartment. Thanks to the win, there was enough for a three-room. The remaining money was spent on repairs. is he, by the way, still going on. We live, as everyone: home-work-home. Moreover, taking care of his son - he already goes to kindergarten, makes us happy.
The lottery became a salvation from a future mortgage. Maxim and Natalia thought about her, planning to buy a small apartment. Hoped, that with the help of a mortgage loan they will improve living conditions, when their boy grows up and needs a separate room.
Maxim Nikityuk was presented with lottery tickets after winning. But he was not so lucky anymore. For about three months, he and his wife exchanged small amounts for new tickets., and then they stopped.
- You can't think: once bought a ticket, you will definitely win. Too many participants, and even more - digital combinations. Much more chance, what's lucky in love. I am very lucky with my wife! - Maxim laughs.
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"Secret Millionaire" David Ashcroft, 12 million
30-summer furniture maker David Ashcroft also became one of the most famous lucky ones in England. But for the opposite reason: he behaved completely atypical. After winning in 1997 year David told reporters, that he never had a girlfriend and was not abroad. Since then nothing has changed: a man lives in an old house with his parents, and he still has no girlfriend, and still works as a furniture maker.
All, what did david, - I bought myself a truck for work, passenger car Mitsubishi and trailer for parents, and also made repairs on the veranda. But no, was a Ferrari, but even that was begged by relatives. The newspapers nicknamed Ashcroft "The Secret Millionaire" and do not get tired of watching his house - suddenly he goes to waste money. But the latest news in 2013 year there were new windows in the house - that's all the "madness".
