A MAN who had won the Powerball lottery in the early 2000s spent all of his winnings and lived in a storage shed before his death.
David Lee Edwards, a convicted felon from Ashland, Kentucky, won a one-quarter share, about $27 million after taxes, from the Powerball jackpot of $280 million during August 2001.
At the time, the jackpot was the third-biggest in US lottery history, per the Lexington Herald Leader.
Not long after the lucky draw, Edwards quickly married Shawna Maddux in Malibu, California, and quickly went to work spending his newfound fortune.
The massive purchases included a mansion within a gated community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, along with over a dozen expensive cars, and even a private LearJet, per the Courier-Journal.
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