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Michaell Carroll This financial wizard made €15 million Euro disappear in 7 years. To carry out this tiring task, he was accompanied by those old friends of money: drugs, gambling and sex.
Carroll won €15 million in the National Lottery UK in 2002. He was 19 years old at the time and sporadically worked as a bin-man.
In addition, his girlfriend at that time was pregnant and he was wearing an electronic offender’s tag after having been involved in an attack on teenagers at a Christian disco.
When he collected his prize, a local police constable commented wryly: “This proves that God has a sense of humour.”
Carroll states that he doesn’t know how much money he blew with friends on drugs, gambling and prostitutes: ¨We lived like Roman generals.”
His gold jewellery was stolen from him. The next day he went out and spent €160,000 on new nuggets and chains.
He invested one and a half million euro in his adored Glasgow Rangers FC.
He owes his lawyers €90.000 yet he claims he hasn’t got two pennies to rub together.
Today, Carroll is happy: ¨I find it easier to live off £42 (€49) dole than a million.
Carroll won €15 million in the National Lottery UK in 2002. He was 19 years old at the time and sporadically worked as a bin-man.
In addition, his girlfriend at that time was pregnant and he was wearing an electronic offender’s tag after having been involved in an attack on teenagers at a Christian disco.
When he collected his prize, a local police constable commented wryly: “This proves that God has a sense of humour.”
Carroll states that he doesn’t know how much money he blew with friends on drugs, gambling and prostitutes: ¨We lived like Roman generals.”
His gold jewellery was stolen from him. The next day he went out and spent €160,000 on new nuggets and chains.
He invested one and a half million euro in his adored Glasgow Rangers FC.
He owes his lawyers €90.000 yet he claims he hasn’t got two pennies to rub together.
Today, Carroll is happy: ¨I find it easier to live off £42 (€49) dole than a million.
