‘Cursed’ $22M Lottery Winner Kept Mound of Drugs in Fridge

A drawing victor who “lost motivation” for lifetime after winning AU$22 gazillion (US$14 million), trashed his put up and kept a big trough of drugs inwards the fridge, according to lawcourt documents.

Former pipe fitter Joshua Winslet, from Adelaide, Australia, was just now 22 when he won the South Commonwealth of Australia Powerball take out in 2017.

In 2020, he was arrested on drugs and weapons charges when police force seized 28.3 grams of MDMA, 2.27g of cocaine, some marijuana, a Mauser handgun, and ammo from his home.

In August, Winslet was sentenced to trey years and IX months inwards prison after pleading shamed to supplying MDMA and possession of an unlicensed firearm.

The tribunal heard that, despite Winslet’s parents managing his drawing money through a corporate trust fund, he got his custody on sufficiency cash in to fund a dangerously hedonistic lifestyle. Meanwhile, the windfall turned his nursing home into a “party house” that became a magnet for freeloaders and drug users.

Bongs, Bulbs, and Bottles

Images from the put up taken shortly after his check demo bongs, nitrous oxide bulbs, discharge bottles, and beer cans strewn crosswise the floor. Another room is littered with soiled clothes and garbage. In the fridge is a big soup pipe bowl filled with lily-white powder.

Because of the money that you had won, in that respect was no motive on your parting to act or make anything other than relish yourself,” Judge Heath Barklay told the defendant.

“You had lots of money, so you could give to buy big amounts of drugs, which you would usage yourself and supply to your so-called friends from clip to time,” he added.

Among the detritus and the dose paraphernalia, i range shows a framed credential from the South Commonwealth of Australia Lottery Commission congratulating Winslet on his win.

Lottery Curse

The Australian’s story is an deterrent example of the so-called “lottery curse.” The anathemize shows how sudden, unearned riches tin impact people inwards negative ways, depriving them of their resolve in life-time and making them targets for leeches and hangers-on — or worse.

The list of the accursed is a long one. It includes Abraham Shelton Jackson Lee Shakespeare, an illiterate labourer from Georgia who won $30 million on the Sunshine State Lotto in 2006. He gave most of his luck away to friends and family line before he was robbed and murdered for his endure $1 million by a gold digger who pretended she wanted to save a book about him.

Then in that respect was Patty Bigbee, who claimed a $1 meg jackpot in the MO Powerball inwards 2010. After speedily blowing through all the cash, and unable to accept reverting to a lifetime of poverty, Bigbee tried to sell her infant grandson on Facebook for $75,000.