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Imagine you win approx 13 million euros, change your life and then return to your job after making bad decisions. That’s exactly what happened Mark Gardiner who won £11million, bought two football clubs and a few houses for himself and his friends, then moved to Barbados – the man regretted it after saying he would have done things differently had he hit the jackpot again.
Failed Investments
Mark Gardiner, 61, hit the jackpot nearly 30 years ago but still works as a glazier and says he enjoys driving his company car. Mr Gardiner, from St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, and his former business partner Paul Maddison shared their £22,590,829 prize in 1995, The Sun reports.
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But his luck didn’t last long, because a series of bad investments meant that his enormous fortune slowly dwindled.
One of his wisest moves was investing 2 million pounds of the prize money of the company Croft Glass. Today he is more involved in the business than ever and takes care of measurements, reports and orders for new windows. Mr Gardiner told The Sun: “Don’t get me wrong, if I had won the lottery now at 61 I would have done so many different things.” I would have stopped working.
He still plays the lottery today using the same magic numbers that made him fortune in 1995 in hopes of lightning strikes twice. «I bought two local football clubs but it was a waste of money».
“Clubs would never be profitable and although I had invested money in them, no one was willing to help me. I also bought some houses for my four closest friends, all in the same cul-de-sac so we can be close and they can protect me from unwanted attention. One by one they took advantage of me: the manager of my glass company, for example, started quitting his job.”
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