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Forrest Gump Wins $31 Million In Lottery, Ends In Tragedy

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As one chinese guy said like a 1,000 years ago, "A fool and his money are soon parted".

(**EDITED** Due to some complaints from nazi moral police about being offended by the original title, it has been politically corrected to a less-harsher title ()🙂)


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In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare (pictured), a barely literate 43-year-old truck driver, thought his luck had changed for the better when he won a $31 million Florida lottery prize. Instead, it was the beginning of worse troubles. He was reportedly hounded by friends and relatives asking for money. A year later, he was in court defending himself from an accusation of theft by a trucker who accused him of stealing the winning ticket from him while the two had been delivering meat to Miami restaurants. In 2008, he met Dorice “DeeDee” Donegan Moore, 37, who became his girlfriend and financial advisor. According to police, she managed to bilk him of $1.8 million before his death.

Shakespeare disappeared in April 2009, but his family continued to receive text messages purportedly from him on his cell phone. His family grew suspicious and reported him missing in November 2009. Moore, who was a person of interest from the start, proclaimed her innocence to CNN affiliate WTSP saying, “Abraham had a life of drama because of the money. The money was like a curse to him. And now it has become a curse to me.”


Moore said she helped him disappear because he wanted to get away from all the people trying to get money from him. His body was found under a concrete slab on January 28, 2010, and identified a few days later. Moore made a first big mistake telling reporters that she was being accused of having “shot” another human being: Police had not publicly disclosed how Shakespeare had been killed.

But investigators had already been onto Moore, who had unintentionally led them to the victim by approaching an unidentified witness sometime between December 28, 2009, and January 21, 2010, looking for someone willing to confess to Shakespeare’s murder and to move the body for $50,000. According to the witness, Moore also furnished the would-be patsy with the gun she said had been used to kill Shakespeare.


Moore was arrested and charged as an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. She later told police that Shakespeare had been shot in an attempted robbery, and that she had tried to conceal his death. Police expect to make more arrests in this case.
 
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So let me get this straight, after I win $31 million I'm going to go to a ghetto and befriend a low-life girlfriend and make her my "financial advisor" and trustee while her ghetto male friends now every move we make?? 🙄
 
You're awfully harsh on the guy. I see no reason to castigate him. I wish it would have worked out better for him, though many here have pointed out that often winning the lottery will bring trouble along with the money.

And you don't need to go to the ghetto to find a lowlife girlfriend who will try to bilk you out of your lottery winnings.
 
He should have kept quiet of his winnings from the start. Once everyone knows that you won, forget about not "sharing". You'll gain new friends you never had before. :\
 
You're awfully harsh on the guy. I see no reason to castigate him. I wish it would have worked out better for him, though many here have pointed out that often winning the lottery will bring trouble along with the money.

And you don't need to go to the ghetto to find a lowlife girlfriend who will try to bilk you out of your lottery winnings.

The man was stupid. You don't need to be Einstein to shove the majority of it into a bank account with no beneficiary and keep it on the down low to avoid exactly his situation.

Sad thing is, people like him are the ones asking for money every day. Yet when they get it, they fuck it up. And they wonder why they're not rich. Obviously whitie's just keeping the black man down. 🙄
 
He should have kept quiet of his winnings from the start. Once everyone knows that you won, forget about not "sharing". You'll gain new friends you never had before. :\

That's very tough to do. Lottery officials always publicize the names of winners - they insist they must so that nobody can accuse them of just pretending to award the prizes. It can be done but the groundwork has to be in place before claiming the prize, and your typical big winner wants to get that claim in immediately.
 
That's very tough to do. Lottery officials always publicize the names of winners - they insist they must so that nobody can accuse them of just pretending to award the prizes. It can be done but the groundwork has to be in place before claiming the prize, and your typical big winner wants to get that claim in immediately.

So shove it in a bank account with no beneficiary and say "fuck off" to the freeloaders. I sympathize with the guy to a point, but he kinda dug his own grave.
 
So let me get this straight, after I win $31 million I'm going to go to a ghetto and befriend a low-life girlfriend and make her my "financial advisor" and trustee while her ghetto male friends now every move we make?? 🙄

No. You're gonna spend it on hookers and blow.
 
The man was stupid. You don't need to be Einstein to shove the majority of it into a bank account with no beneficiary and keep it on the down low to avoid exactly his situation.

Even if you don't tell friends and family, I'd think it would be hard to keep your newfound wealth under wraps. If he went out and bought a new house, wouldn't people question where he got the money from? Or if he went out and bought a car? Or opened up a business? I'm not sure how you'd hide evidence of the money unless you simply didn't spend it.
 
@ Homerboy, look at my second post.

There's another guy who won $7 million in Winnipeg,Manitoba and he blew it all in 3 years, he bought all his close friends new homes (at $250,000 a pop) and bought sports cars and another house for his favorite stripper, then the rest of the money he drank it with his friends in that same strip bar, almost every night they partied, with tabs of $3,000 to $8,000 a night for drinks and lap dances for a group of 10-12. Anyways, fast-forward 3 years and the guy had spent all his money, he was living in the basement of one the houses he bought for a friend but after 8 months of not working and not lifting a finger to even clean-up his own room, the owner of the house told him to move out or he would call the cops. That night the guy hanged himself with a rope.
 
I'm gonna agree that he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed but I think you're being a unduly harsh on the man. Some people are incapable of planning ahead or thinking about the big picture. You see it all the time in construction with laborers and non-skilled workers; all they care about is getting their work done and they don't care who they fuck over (including themselves) in the long run.

He made a mistake and befriended the wrong person. That person then took advantage of him and ended up murdering him. Shit happens.
 
@ Homerboy, look at my second post.

There's another guy who won $7 million in Winnipeg,Manitoba and he blew it all in 3 years, he bought all his close friends new homes (at $250,000 a pop) and bought sports cars and another house for his favorite stripper, then the rest of the money he drank it with his friends in that same strip bar, almost every night they partied, with tabs of $3,000 to $8,000 a night for drinks and lap dances for a group of 10-12. Anyways, fast-forward 3 years and the guy had spent all his money, he was living in the basement of one the houses he bought for a friend but after 8 months of not working and not lifting a finger to even clean-up his own room, the owner of the house told him to move out or he would call the cops. That night the guy hanged himself with a rope.

Sounds like he enjoyed himself and then took himself out when he was no longer on top of his game. Stupid? Sure, but he probably lived more in those 3 years than you will in your lifetime.
 
I missed where he picked her up in the ghetto as you presume.

Yeah, I'm sure she was picked up at the campus of Harvard Graduate School because the lottery winner frequented such places, I also love her high-IQ move of offering a person $50,000 to take blame for the murder thus digging her own hole, that definitely does not sound low-life or ghetto at all 🙄
 
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