Lottery Winners Who Battled The Challenges Of New Fortune

Published on July 29, 2019 By James Spiro

‘Spend, Spend, Spend!’

In 1961, a woman called Vivian Nicholson won the equivalent of $33 million after betting in various football pools. Lucky, right? She vowed to ‘spend, spend, spend’ her winnings, which are often famous last words.

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Soon after buying sports cars, fur coats, jewelry, and traveling, she ran out of money. Her husband then died in a car crash and she remarried four times before dying of alcoholism. Ouch.