Sudden Wealth Syndrome: The Shocking Truth After $3.8 Million Powerball Lottery Win

Sudden Wealth Syndrome: The Shocking Truth After $3.8 Million Powerball Lottery Win

Powerball winner Willie Seeley and wife Donna on NBC’s TODAY show. PHOTO: Screengrab by @ChadWillis/Twitter

So you won last week. The most exciting time in your life has been and gone. You watched your numbers come up on TV, shouting and whooping, and you have traveled to the lottery HQ and collected your check. Now what happens?

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How this 14-times lottery winner won $27 million, and why it all went terribly wrong

It all started in the 1960s, when a poor Romanian accountant came up with a solution for winning the lottery. He had spent every minute he had off work and family life analyzing papers on math and working on his own algorithm. Watch and see how it then went quite wrong for him.

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Lottery winner stories about how winning changed their lives

In this video, Powerball winner Timothy Schultz gives insights about interesting lottery winner stories in 2020. Timothy won the lottery in 1999 before going back to college to study film, journalism and broadcast news. He's now combining his experience with his desire to meet and interview other lottery winners and people who have come into sudden wealth.