Okay, if you win once and lose it, that’s one thing. But Evelyn Adams became “big money grip” on two occasions. Against tremendous odds in the mid-1980s Adams won the lottery twice, once in 1985 and again in 1986.
The New Jersey native collected enough to last two lifetimes — $5.4 million — but AskMen.com reports dumped it all at all-out gambling sessions at Atlantic City.
Today she resides in a trailer park.