Many lottery winners go broke because they spend their money on luxury items, give too much away, or fall into bad habits like gambling. Yes, common themes include overspending, bad financial ...

Which is why we present to you the stories of 10 people who won the lottery and ended up losing everything. Whether it was reckless spending or a tragic death, if anyone wished they could go back ...

Abraham Lee Shakespeare won the Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but three years later he vanished before he was found shot and ...

Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, imprisoned for killing a $30 million lottery winner in Florida, continues to claim she was framed for Abraham Shakespeare's 2009 murder.

A judge in Maine denied a $1.35 billion lottery winner’s request to give testimony under a pseudonym amid an ongoing legal ...

A homeless man in California received a “life-changing” sum of money, to the tune of one million dollars, after hitting the ...

There’s also a laundry list of horror stories about big lottery winners whose golden tickets ... history after a ticket worth $810 million went unclaimed in Texas back in September.

Most lottery winners go with lump sum checks, but not Robert Havelka Jr. Havelka went in the other direction after winning in the April 2 drawing, officials said. “He chose the $25,000 a year ...

I'd have been better off broke. He said that to me all the time ... Moore has advocated for lottery winners to have their identity protected for at least six months after they cash in their ...