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He was noted for being the winner of a 2002 lottery jackpot. His win of US$314.9 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery was, at the time, the largest jackpot ever won by a single winning ticket in the history of American lottery. After winning the lottery, he was proximate to a number of crimes, and experienced several personal tragedies. [2]
Abraham Lee Shakespeare (April 24, 1966 – c. April 7, 2009) was a casual laborer from the US who won a $30 million lottery jackpot in Florida, receiving $17 million in 2006. In 2009, his family declared him missing , and in January 2010 his body was found buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of an acquaintance.
Evelyn Adams made lottery history when she won two multimillion-dollar New Jersey prizes, in 1985 and 1986. ... when he died in 2006, despite winning $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery in ...
After winning an $18 million lottery jackpot in 1993, Janite Lee's earnings were gone within a decade. ... Barry Shell won $4 million Canadian dollars in the Ontario lottery in 2009 after he used ...
Joan Ginther was an American four-time lottery winner. She first won the lottery in 1993, when she won $5.4 million in Lotto Texas (equivalent to about $11.4M in 2023). Her next win came in 2006 when she won $2 million in the Holiday Millionaire scratch-off. Her third win happened in 2008, when she won $3 million from a Millions and Millions ...
Shakespeare won a $17 million payment from the Florida Lottery in 2006. Prosecutors said that Moore befriended him in 2008, after Shakespeare had given away or loaned most of his winnings.
The trials and troubles of the Lavigueur family have since become entrenched in Quebec popular culture for various reasons: the fact that a poor family became multimillionaires overnight; the intervention of a stranger who found the lottery ticket lost by the family's father; the judicial saga of one of the family's daughters, the only member ...
Lottery Winner: Man wins $3.1 million on $2 Colorado Lottery game Million-dollar winner is ‘grateful’ for lottery win . The morning after the drawing, he said he scanned the ticket at a ...