Who hasn't fantasized about hitting the lotto jackpot?
Just imagine all those millions of dollars and what you could buy with them: houses,
fine dining, and even cruising the Mediterranean with your own yacht!
Everything sounds so lovely!
But winning the Jackpot isn't everything it seems to be.
Most people dream about hitting the Jackpot, but they should be cautious with their wishes.
It's not uncommon for lottery winners to end up with nothing but shattered friendships,
ruined marriages, poverty, or even death.
Winning the Jackpot, you know, sounds like a dream come true until the money draws out
selfish and bitter relatives, scam artists, and charity cases from the shadows.
Many lottery winners are left penniless after a series of bad decisions.
This video will go over the second part of the Dumbest Lottery Winners EVER.
If you haven't watched part one, you can do so by clicking on the top right corner now
and then coming back to this video or by waiting until the end of this one; those stories are
as mind-blowing as these ones.
Now, Let's get started with the dumbest lottery winner number...
10) Tonda Lynn Dickerson Tonda Dickerson worked as a waitress at Waffle
House when she received an odd tip.
Because he didn't have any more money, her customer left a lottery ticket instead.
He had no idea that he was about to change this woman's life forever, and not for the
better.
Later that week, she heard the news that she had won $10 million in the lottery.
The other Waffle House waitresses were thrilled since they had agreed to split the wins before
the lottery drawing.
On the other hand, Tonda did not know about such an agreement and planned to retain the
money for herself.
These actions resulted in a series of lawsuits against her, which she eventually won and
taught her the importance of protecting her assets.
Tonda and her family established a corporation for this specific purpose.
However, the IRS pursued her for not paying taxes on a gift of shares she made to her
family through the firm.
She challenged them but lost and had to pay $1.1 million in taxes as a result.
A few years later, after all the money was gone, Tonda ended up working as a poker dealer
at the Golden Nugget Casino in Mississippi.
9) Lara and Roger Griffiths The marriage of Lara and Roger Griffiths ended
in divorce less than a decade after the British couple won a $2.19 million lottery jackpot.
Roger pursued his rock star dreams by spending large sums of money to have his band release
an album.
Lara became familiar with the high life after the couple purchased exotic cars, a $1 million
home, designer clothes, and accessories, and a costly private school for their daughter.
They invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in opening a salon, where Lara was later forced
to work as an employee just to make ends meet.
In the end, the couple had less than $10 and a shattered relationship.
8) Callie Rogers Callie Rogers was another lucky winner from
England who got rich at a very young age, but she was even more immature and less prepared
to manage her new fortune than the previous couple.
Rogers was only 16 years old when she won the equivalent of $2.3 million in 2003.
A decade later, in 2013, she only had about $2,500 in the bank.
She burned through the money due to drugs -- Rogers dropped about $300,000 on cocaine
alone -- as well as plastic surgery, high-end clothing, gifts, and partying.
These decisions made Callie, who is 33 at the time of this video, live on benefits.
However, since then, she has felt way stronger and completely different.
Recently she said in an interview, 'It was too much money for someone so young.
Even if you say your life won't change, it does - and often not for the better.
It nearly broke me, but thankfully, I'm now stronger than ever."
7) Curtis Sharp Curtis Sharp won $5 million in the New York
lottery in 1982.
Unfortunately, his story was one of the rags to riches and back again.
By 1987, all of his money was long gone, just five years after hitting the $5 Million Jackpot.
Sharp's fortune would vanish far too quickly, thanks to multiple failed marriages, trips
to the casino, reckless spending on sports cars, and lavishing gifts on friends and relatives.
Fast-forward to today, Curtis is a minister in Tennessee.
According to him, other winners should walk away to clear their heads before spending
any of their winnings. 6) Evelyn Adams
Evelyn Adams made lottery history in 1985 and 1986 when she won two multimillion-dollar
prizes in New Jersey back to back.
Her total winnings were just over $5.4 million.
However, like so many other lucky winners, Adams couldn't get out of her way.
She compulsively gambled her money, eventually losing most of it to the Atlantic City Casino.
But that was not the only deadly habit to her fortune; giving too many expensive gifts
to family members, spending on expensive clothes, and making a series of bad investment ideas,
completely destroyed her wealth.
According to Forbes, Adams blew it all and moved into a trailer.
So far, we have seen some UNBELIEVABLE stories of some of the dumbest lottery winners ever.
But get ready because this is about to get even crazier!
So, keep watching!
Up next is...
5) Lisa Arcand
Lisa was the winner of a $1 million lottery prize in Massachusetts in 2004.
She, like previous winners, purchased a home and took multiple vacations.
She threw an extravagant dinner for 20 of her friends and family, ordering multiple
bottles of wine for $200 each.
She put her son in a fancy school and bought expensive furniture for her home.
Lisa decided to open a restaurant as a source of income after realizing that $1 million
didn't go very far after taxes.
Lisa had no prior restaurant or financial management experience.
Sadly, the restaurant didn't perform well, and she was forced to close it.
Lisa's money was gone by 2007, barely three years after she won the lotto.
4) Marva Wilson
Marva Wilson won $2 million in the Missouri Lottery in 2012.
Freya Pearson, a good friend, agreed to help Wilson manage her money and do her taxes.
Pearson, on the other hand, duped Wilson into signing over $400,000 of her winnings and
depositing them in a bank account set up by Pearson
, as well as giving her access to Wilson's other bank account.
Pearson went on a spending binge, traveling, gambling, and purchasing cars and an apartment.
Pearson was eventually convicted and was given a 5-year sentence on account of fraud, tax
evasion, and money laundering, but it was too late to recover the funds.
Pearson had squandered all of Wilson's funds in less than two years.
3) Joseph and Ibi Roncaioli Canadian residents Joseph and Ibi Roncaioli
were already pretty wealthy when Ibi won $5 million in a 1991 lottery.
They were known as a happy elderly couple to their neighbors.
However, their supposed comfortable lifestyle changed when Joseph discovered Ibi had spent
all of their life savings due to her addictions to alcohol and gambling.
If that wasn't enough, she gave away the $5 million to a secret son she had with another
man before marrying Joseph.
A few short years later, Ibi was found unconscious in her home.
An autopsy showed that she had been poisoned.
Joseph claimed he was checking her for blood due to her poor health, but prosecutors saw
and sentenced him to seven years through his lies.
A sad ending to a probably already broken marriage.
2) Urooj Khan Ibi Roncaioli is not the only winner who ended
up murdered.
Urooj Khan founded a dry-cleaning business in Chicago after immigrating to the United
States from India in 1989.
Years later, he bought a $1 million winning lottery ticket but chose the lump sum, which
came to $424,000 after taxes.
However, he never saw a dime.
He died the day after the check was written, but he never got it.
His assets became embroiled in a battle between his wife and stepdaughter.
Authorities suspect he was poisoned with cyanide after an autopsy showed evidence of this deadly
substance in his blood samples.
Supposedly, To this day, police have done nothing about it, referring to the case as
"an active and open investigation."
And finally, we have reached number...
1) Willie Hurt
Willie Hurt was a happily married family man who was well-known in his neighborhood before
1989.
In 1989, Hurt won the $3.1 million Michigan Super Lotto jackpot.
This was during the height of the crack epidemic, and Hurt was deeply tangled in the mayhem.
His winnings were used to fund a raging crack drug addiction.
Soon after, Hurt divorced his wife, lost custody of his children, lost his fortune, and was
charged with a lady while on a multiday drug and alcohol frenzy.
Hurt's attorney claimed that the money was spent on his rocky divorce and crack addiction.
By 1991, just two years after winning, the $3.1 Million where nothing more than a blurred
memory.
There you have it, 10 of the DUMBEST Lottery winners in history.
Which story was the craziest to you?