Craziest Things That Lotto Winners Buy

Bought: Soccer Team – John McGuinness won the UK lottery in 1997, bringing in around $17 million. Like several lotto winners before him, John spent money on a party or two, cars, traveling, and much more. We’re not sure why he spent money on both an apartment AND a house. However, his most significant spend was £4 million in his favorite soccer club, the Livingston FC out of Scotland. This is a lower division team that did not turn out well. The club eventually went into debt, causing this super fan’s money to disappear faster than superheroes around Thanos. Sadly, soccer is no longer a beautiful game to Mr. McGuinness.

Bought: Anything to keep the party going – In 1998, Gerald Muswagon won $10 million as part of the Super 7 jackpot lottery. It was a huge deal to win this, so it made sense that he may want to party a bit when winning. However, Gerald never knew where to stop. Lotto winners often spend money on parties, but there are plenty of people that know when they have done this long enough and spend their money elsewhere. Instead, Gerald spent thousands of dollars hosting parties and drinking massive amounts of alcohol. He spent so much of it that it only took him a few years to spend all of it. Depressed over losing everything, he died by suicide in 2005.

Bought: Racehorses – Horse racing has always been a sport for the wealthy. That said, it makes sense that lotto winners might want to spend a bit of money playing the ponies. However, Keith Gough took it to the next level when he won a lottery in The UK. He spent what amounts to around $260,000 for the horses. Gough then ended up spending money on a BMW, Gardener, and Driver. On top of this, he put around $600,000 down on a house. The racehorses that Keith bought did not go anywhere. Horseracing is for the wealthy because the upkeep of horses is expensive, not to mention the cost of travel, the rider, and much more. Gough would be lucky as a novice if he broke even.

Bought: Designer Clothes – In 1961, Vivan Nicholson lucked out and won the UK lottery. She didn’t lie or pretend when it came to telling people what she might spend her money on. She claimed that she wanted to spend the money on all the luxuries one could have in life. This mostly included clothing. When it came down to it, she spent every penny on clothes. These were not just any types of clothes either. She spent money on the most expensive designer clothes money could buy. She blew through it all and eventually declared bankruptcy.

Bought: Water Park – John Kutey won the Mega Million Lottery in 2011 along with six other people. The amount in total was $319 million, which resulted in a split going out to $28.7 million per person. Unlike other lotto winners, Kutey knew what he wanted to do with the money from the start. He and his wife decided to buy up and destroy a local pool, installing a colossal spray park in its place. They would then invest $200,000 to help build a water park in New York. Thankfully, Kutey has not blown through all of his winnings as of yet. Perhaps he’ll make money back from the park!

Bought: Massive Loans – When you win millions of dollars in the lottery, most lotto winners blow through the money they get. It seems that Suzanne Mullins didn’t care for the annual payments that the United States lottery offered at the time. She wanted to get it all at once, so she decided to take out a lot of loans. Due to this, she could never get ahead. The loans eventually grew in debt and could never be paid off. Things got so out of hand that she ended up owing more in the loans than she won through the lottery. She lost all of her assets after several court cases.

Bought: Atlantic City Casino Bets – Evelyn Adams happens to be one of the luckiest lotto winners in history, having won the lottery twice. This gave her $6 million in total lotto revenue. However, she thought she luckier than most and decided to put it to the test. This led her to travel to Atlantic City and bet it all, attempting to double her earnings. This may be crazy, but it had the potential to bring in around $12 million if she won every bet she placed. She could technically keep betting and winning possibly, the net even more. However, she ended up losing it all.

Bought: Crystal Meth – Ronnie Music, Jr. did what many others before him have done when he won $3 million in a lottery a few years back. He started a business. However, this lotto winner didn’t go for a company that was the most wholesome or legal venture. He decided to buy up and then distribute drugs, with crystal meth as the key focus for him. Ronnie was found out, and police found several firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, 11 pounds of meth, and multiple cars with $600,000 in cash when they raided his apparent drug den. The man now faces potential life in prison.

Bought: Started NASCAR Team – When lifelong NASCAR fan Joe Denette won $75.6 million in the Mega Millions lottery back in 2009, he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his new-found fortune: buy a NASCAR team. Opting for a lump sum payment of $46 million, the Virginia native started Joe Denette Motorsports and immediately created a Camping World Truck Series team. – Partnering with Hermie Sadler, a former Nationwide Series regular, Joe Denette Motorsports introduced its first full-time team in the 2011 Camping World Truck Series and is continuing to make a name for itself one truck and race at a time.

Bought: Knee Replacement Surgery – We often hear of lottery winners splurging on new cars, homes and luxury vacations, but new body parts? Not so much. That’s until the Dodds hit it big in 2007 when they won nearly $4 million in the UK’s rollover jackpot. Tony and Greta Dodd, both in their 60s at the time, suffered from chronic and debilitating knee pain. It was so problematic that the outgoing couple could no longer dance, swim, play golf, or walk more than a few yards at a time. Their names landed on the national knee replacement list. So when the big news came that July, the first thing the Dodds did was make an appointment for knee replacement surgery. Now, with two pairs of new knees, the couple has been dancing, golfing and swimming nonstop ever since.