![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/lottery-winner-picked-up-5million-prize-with-wife-and-girlfriend-on-each-arm/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_curtis-hp-2JPG.jpg&description=Curtis Sharp, Jr. was working as a maintenance man in New Jersey when he landed the jackpot in 1982. He immediately raised eyebrows after walking into lottery headquarters with two females on his arms A lottery winner went to collect a life-changing $5million prize with his wife - and went on to leave his girlfriend "penniless". Curtis Sharp, Jr. was working as a former maintenance man in New Jersey when he landed the jackpot in 1982 and immediately raised eyebrows after walking into lottery headquarters with two females on his arms. His wife, Barbara, and girlfriend Jacqueline Bernabela happily posed for photographs with him but things soon turned sour. He had spent much of his life working regular jobs earning a weekly salary of $300 to receiving pay-outs of $239,005 for the next twenty years of his life. It was required that Sharp keep his job for the next eight years to receive his pay-out. But keeping his daily schedule did not hinder Sharp from spending big. 'For 53 years, I've been eating bread. Now I want to eat cake,' he said. For all the latest news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US Sharpe gave money to friends and family and even wrote a check for $15,000 to help victims of the Ethiopian famine. The one married man spent money on divorces, and cars, and gave money to slot machines while visiting casinos. "It came in, it went out," Sharp said. "I don't have one penny left of that." Shape earned $2,600 a month for a social security pension. However, he's still free-hearted with what he has. "If someone needs something, I help out." Sharp spent his days as a minister at a church in Tennessee. As for the money he wasted, Sharp doesn't seem to be bothered by it. "It didn't work out. But it's OK," God has blessed me. I am doing good.' The lottery winner passed away at 82-years-old in 2020 in Nashville. Sharp isn't the first lottery winner to blow through money. Evelyn Adams, who won the New Jersey lottery twice, in 1985 and 1986,){kind=link}
Curtis Sharp, Jr. was working as a maintenance man in New Jersey when he landed the jackpot in 1982. He immediately raised eyebrows after walking into lottery headquarters with two females on his arms
A lottery winner went to collect a life-changing $5million prize with his wife – and went on to leave his girlfriend “penniless”.
Curtis Sharp, Jr. was working as a former maintenance man in New Jersey when he landed the jackpot in 1982 and immediately raised eyebrows after walking into lottery headquarters with two females on his arms. His wife, Barbara, and girlfriend Jacqueline Bernabela happily posed for photographs with him but things soon turned sour.
He had spent much of his life working regular jobs earning a weekly salary of $300 to receiving pay-outs of $239,005 for the next twenty years of his life. It was required that Sharp keep his job for the next eight years to receive his pay-out.
But keeping his daily schedule did not hinder Sharp from spending big. “For 53 years, I’ve been eating bread. Now I want to eat cake,” he said.