You Win Some, You Lose Some: Lottery Winners Who Lost Everything

The Lotto Cost Him His Life

In 2006, Abraham Lee Shakespeare took home a $30 million jackpot in Florida. However, just three years after his win, he went missing. He was later found under a concrete slab. Devastatingly, he had been shot, killed, and buried by his own business partner, Dee Dee Moore, who had befriended him after his win.

This story gets even crazier though. In June 2017, Abraham’s mother, Antoinette Andrews, won $1 million dollars with a scratch-off ticket. Antionette reportedly spends $100 a day on lottery tickets according to the Daily News, but this time it finally paid off. This doesn’t stop her from worrying about people taking advantage of her though. “I’m a little scared,” she told The Ledger. “It still doesn’t seem real.”