Happy to the game, unhappy … short. The world of rich can be a ruthless universe. For a few super lotteries winners, the gold ticket quickly revealed its dark side. In their work Luckily millionairesFruit of a two-year investigation with a hundred Loto winners, the authors Michel Pinçon and Monique Pinçon-Charlot evoke the courses of big lucky people for whom
Luck has turned.
When the draw smiles, these winners “are disarmed by this money which suddenly falls to them”in 2010 explained the two sociologists, at the time interviewed on TF1. The latter pointed out that if
“In general, the winners, even of a modest environment, manage to master”some “did not know how to control what happened to them and have made mistakes.”
Lotto winners for whom luck went wrong
Among the disenchanted Loto is Gillian Bayford. With her husband, this Scottishness had won a record sum of
187 million euros. Her family, to whom she said that she had given no less than 25 million euros, had ended up turning her back on her. “They kept contacting me so that I gave them more. They already bought houses and cars, but they always wanted more,”, could she have entrusted to the British press. Now she takes advantage of her millions on her own. The icing on the cake, her husband ended up leaving it for another.
Gillian Bayford will have at least had time to lead the big life, a happiness which will not have benefited Antônio Lopes de Siqueira. On November 9, this 73 -year -old Brazilian won the jackpot of the national lottery. Less than a month later, he died.
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He won 32 million euros in the lottery and then died mysteriously
According to the Brazilian newspaper The globethe senior did not yet know how to spend his immense gain from 32 million eurosbut had already decreed that in the first place, he was going to take care of him. The new multimillionaire from Cuiabá, in the state of Mato Grosso, had thus decided to have his teeth redo. For a week, he was treated in a clinic in his hometown.
During this banal intervention, the inconceivable occurred. Antônio Lopes de Siqueira is suddenly deceased. For the time being, the exact cause of the death is not known. An autopsy should make it possible to learn more in the coming days.
An investigation open on the death of this super lottery winner
Police opened an investigation and plans to question the dentist as well as several witnesses present at the time of the facts. According to the first hypotheses, the millionaire was the victim of sudden discomfort in the middle of the session. We also know that he
suffered from medical historyespecially hypertension and diabetes.
For its part, the establishment in which the treatment took place to wait for a detailed report which will make it possible to specify the technical circumstances of the incident. The clinic also claimed to cooperate fully with the authorities while supporting the bereaved family.
