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I know I wrote about this a few months back, shoot, maybe even as far back as a year ago, about the guy in West Virginia who won the largest single Poweball jackpot ever, over 300 million dollars, a couple years ago. His name is Jack Whittaker, and he says that ever since he won the lottery, his life has pretty much become a nightmare, with no friends, or at least friends that don’t ask to borrow money, and very little trust in anyone. He is actually a self made millionaire, with multiple business, even before he won the lottery, this hard working guy was very ambitious, and many say a very generous man.

He says that ever since he won the lottery, he’s had numerous break ins to his home and his cars, numerous bad things written about him, some untrue, and some greatly exaggerated, and his granddaughter, who was supposed to inherit his business is now dead, at the age of 17. He blames her death by drug addiction on a threat to kidnap her that occurred after he won the lottery, when she was 14 years old. Since the threat, she had to be home schooled and became isolated, falling in with the wrong crowd who was older and got her into drugs.

His granddaughter went in and out of rehab several times, and was found dead at the age of seventeen, right before she was supposed to move in with her grandfather, dead of an apparent drug overdose of methadone and cocaine. Jack says that all the money in the world cannot bring her back, but he would give up all the lotto money if he could just have her back.

This is a really sad story that just reminds me of what shallow and greedy people can do. Here is this man, who was already a self made millionaire, who won all this money and was forced practically into solitude because of multiple thefts and threats, not to mention lawsuits by money hungry people claiming he’d done them wrong somehow. Stories like this make you really waiver in your notion of the compassion and decency of humanity….