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These lottery winners won fortunes but spent it all

The ultimate reversals of fortune
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The ultimate reversals of fortune

Believe it or not, statistics show 70% of lottery winners end up broke and a third go on to declare bankruptcy. Runaway spending, toxic investments and poor accounting can burn through a lucrative windfall in next to no time. From rags to riches then back to rags again, click or scroll through as we tell the stories of the lottery winners who lost it all.
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lovemoney staff

20 November 2019

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