$13 million Florida Lotto winner dies a pauper

Comment #9

DC81 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:09:23 GMT

Well, you won't have it when you die unless you're buried with it, but I wouldn't want to die broke, where's the money going to come from to pay for my body to be cryogenically frozen? Who knows, maybe some day I'll be reanimated, hopefully without a craving for human flesh or brains. Hopefully I'll still have something in a bank and the interest on it over the decades, centuries will have carried on to where my millions are now billions or more. Yes, I know in reality that doesn't work since in... [ More ]

Comment #8

JackpotWanna — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:54:08 GMT

Well said. Enter this life with nothing and depart with nothing. So he knew how to play the game. wtg

Comment #7

Badger — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:34:37 GMT

That sure looks like where we're headed. Agreed.

Thing is, every lottery winner (not to mention the rest of us) is going to die, and we don't know when. IMHO if I ever won a multi-million dollar jackpot, I sure wouldn't want to die while I still had all that money. I remember reading a news article somewhere where a woman won a jp and she was hit by a car and killed on the way from filing her claim.

Better to die right after you spent the last buck. After all, you can't take it with you.... [ More ]

Comment #6

GamerMom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:55:04 GMT

Oh and you don't mess with the IRS.

yea just ask Wesley Snipes

Comment #5

DC81 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:49:04 GMT

I was joking about that a couple days ago. That's why I'd be doing as much cycling or walking as I can just as I do now, even if I could afford the gas, plus there's the whole exercise thing of course.... Until you get hit by a car and didn't wear a helmet.... The curse lives on!

They were probably one of those people were told you can deduct gambling losses and used that to justify doing it, probably either got addicted to it or were beforehand. But yeah, those three things are typ... [ More ]

Comment #4

LckyLary — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:17:55 GMT

Headline not far behind: Lottery winner goes bankrupt merely paying for food fuel

Comment #3

dingo — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:33:48 GMT

Gamble, Gifts, Luxuries. These elements is repeating almost in any winners-gone-broke stories.

Comment #2

GamerMom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:43:18 GMT

wth they wasted some of their $$$ gambling? Heck I would quit while I was ahead

Comment #1

dphillips — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:06:25 GMT

Oh, how could it be

$13 million Florida Lotto winner dies a pauper

Lottery Post — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:37:12 GMT

A former Florida Lotto multi-millionaire has died nearly broke.

Alex Toth's attorney says he was ill and still facing federal tax fraud charges when he died at age 60. The county health department says he died April 5 but a cause was not listed.

Alex and Rhoda Toth won a $13 million jackpot in 1990. But the Pasco County couple say most of the money ran out years ago, spent on gambling, gifts and luxuries.

They were charged in 2006 with filing false tax returns. Alex Toth was scheduled t... [ More ]