Lottery, lust and luck. Let’s add one more “L” to the four
elements of a better life “love “. Love for the ability live better, better
than before and better than others. Few years ago I used to watch a comedy daily
soap in TV was called My name is Earl. Earl
Hickey, a complete low life but changes how he lives because of a $100.000
winning lottery ticket. Instead of stealing and mooching off everyone he
decides karma must choose his fates. Also he decided he was going to make up
for everything bad he's ever done. This proves two most important things: one
Earl Hickey represented most of us when it comes to winning a fortune and
secondly most of us are unware of the curse that comes with sudden lottery win.
Let’s take a look at some drastic life threatening moments of post lottery win scenarios:
1 Abraham Shakespeare
Edward Ugel, author of the book “Money for Nothing: One Man's
Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions,” told the Daily Beast of the
thousands of lottery winners he's known, few were happy and only a small number
lived happily ever after. “You would be blown away to see how many winners wish
they'd never won," Ugel said. One of those unlucky winners was Abraham
Shakespeare. Just weeks before Shakespeare was killed, he told his mother he
wished he never won Shakespeare hit big for $30 million in 2006, causing
friends and family to hound him for money. Moore convinced the lottery winner
to transfer his assets to her before he went missing in 2009. In 2012, she was
sentenced to mandatory life without parole for his murder by a judge who called
her “cold, calculating and cruel.”
2) David Lee Edwards:
Lived in human feces before his death
Edwards — a former drug addict and felon — won a $27 million
jackpot in 2001 while unemployed in South Florida. He quickly blew through the
money by purchasing a $1.6 million house in Palm Beach Gardens, three race
horses, a fiber optics company, a Lear Jet, a limo business, a $200,000
Lamborghini Diablo and a multitude of other luxuries. Edwards and his wife
returned to drug use and had numerous run-ins with police for possession of
crack cocaine, pills and heroin.
3. Jeffrey Dampier:
Shot to death by his in-law
Edwards — a former drug addict and felon — won a $27 million
jackpot in 2001 while unemployed in South Florida. He quickly blew through the
money by purchasing a $1.6 million house in Palm Beach Gardens, three race
horses, a fiber optics company, a Lear Jet, a limo business, a $200,000
Lamborghini Diablo and a multitude of other luxuries. Edwards and his wife
returned to drug use and had numerous run-ins with police for possession of
crack cocaine, pills and heroin.
3. Jeffrey Dampier:
Shot to death by his in-law
The 46-year-old Chicagoan dropped dead the day after he won $1
million in 2012. An autopsy revealed that Khan died of cyanide poisoning. Both
his sister-in-law and her father were suspected to be involved in his death but
no one was ever charged.Khan's winnings and properties were divided between his
daughter and his widow.
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