Jack Whittaker, 62, had everything and was really happy with his life until 7 years ago, when he won the biggest lottery win ever (at that time), $315 million. After the win he's life took a big turn and became a huge tragedy as family members died and his wife left him.
Around Christmas seven years ago, Jack Whittaker became a local celeb when he won $315 million in the Powerball mul[...] Read more » American won $315 million - his life turned into a huge tragedy
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
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315 mil $ omg, no wonder he and his family got spoilt. this shows that money isn't everything. it only takes a moment for everything to turn around and turn your life upside down.
Joined: May '09
Location: Denmark
Age: 32 (M)
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it prety much his own fault he started gamling and going to strip clubs. also he should have more control on his family, who ledts his family just go out and take drugs, if it was people in my family i would have done something.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
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Its incredible listening to someone saying "I wish i never had won $315.000.000". Its even hard to believe it has been said by someone for real, but after knowing his history, its understandable. He should be thinking: "People always told me money wasnt everything and i never believed them, but now i do". Guranteed! P.S. - Lets wait six months to see who is the film producer and the writer who will take this story to make millions with their best sellers...
Joined: Aug '08
Location: Finland
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Yeah. That really sounds like a challenge! Never trust your family and say goodbye to your friends. Go to your boss and make a nice piece of s**t in his table. Say " have a great summer" and start living with your own expectations. Trust only bartenders...
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
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Hang on, so he wins the lotto, takes drugs, gambles, goes strip joints and manages to get rid of the wife. Hes got it all!!! Family member takes drugs, lol, any one with a family that does not have a relative thats a druggy? Shame about his daughter tho. If money is the problem, i can solve it.
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What a sad story. This story is an excellent example of the line: "Mony is not everything and do not give us happiness" This story remembers me the tv series "Lost" one of the characters won the lottery and since then everything bad is happening to him!
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Posted by Jodoli: What a sad story. This story is an excellent example of the line: "Mony is not everything and do not give us happiness" This story remembers me the tv series "Lost" one of the characters won the lottery and since then everything bad is happening to him!
Well he had happyness and money and when he got more money he acted like an idiot and lost the most important things. How hard can it be to just be yourself even if you have more money than you can spend?? I'm guessing that the fact that everyone knew he won the lottery was the worst part.
Joined: Feb '09
Location: Finland
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well, actually it seems to be a bit far-fetched facts, this could have happened to anyone easily...the only real point is that everybody knew about the money and that's why he was robbed
Posted by Jodoli: What a sad story. This story is an excellent example of the line: "Mony is not everything and do not give us happiness" This story remembers me the tv series "Lost" one of the characters won the lottery and since then everything bad is happening to him!
Well he had happyness and money and when he got more money he acted like an idiot and lost the most important things. How hard can it be to just be yourself even if you have more money than you can spend?? I'm guessing that the fact that everyone knew he won the lottery was the worst part.
We can just talk about all this, but at the end, we all dont know how it feels to have so much money, so its kinda hard to say how hard it must be to be yourself with a lot of money on the bank.. I think, only ppl with experience can tell that to us.
I also think it was a big mistake to show his "face" to everybody, he should've hide hiself from the media/press, after winning so much money.
what the hell is wrong with going to strip clubs and gambling,,, thats a mans thing.. if i had 315 million i would build the biggest ga'damn pokercasino with hundreds of naked girls... fkin hell ,, his wife left,,haha good,, get the fk ,out,, i would give my wife the house and a heap of cash and move in with 10 college chicks.. oh 315 million,, i would frikkin laff and gus and durr,,.. lmfao
money and p%ssy are a mans life, with that kinda of cash, i would be good to be the king ..
increadible story, but this is true very often, when big wins changes people's life. sometimes people when win a huge amount of money make life mistakes etc and are loosing everything they won and much more.
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Location: Netherlands
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maye he won it true some wicked Spells there is a book on internet thats cald ''THE SPELLS OF THE OLD ONES'' i have got that book also and think its no good for your healt on ATS there is a thread about this
