Lotto winner goes back to old job

A lottery winner has spent his £2.8million fortune and gone back to the job he quit when he won the jackpot 12 years ago.

Michael Antonucci, 58, became one of Britain's first lotto winners after borrowing a tenner from his mum to buy tickets.

He spent the cash on a boat, a nightclub, luxury properties, dabbling in different businesses and a 12 week marriage to a topless model.

But now Michael's back at his old trade - buying junk furniture and exporting it to the United States from a lock-up in Plymouth, reports the Daily MIrror.

He said: "It was an experience I would never have had if I had not won the lottery.

"You don't want to die as the richest man in the graveyard, do you. You have to spend some and enjoy it."

He still owns a £300,000 waterfront apartment in Plymouth. Michael said: "I am stock rich and cash poor. But as long as I've got my health and a good bottle of wine I am all right.

"If I had kept everything I bought it would be worth £8 or 9million now but I'm OK with what I've got. It did not feel to me as if I was living a millionaire lifestyle but I did a few things when I had a bit of money like holidays and all that."

He spent £750,000 on a former convent, £300,000 opening a furniture store which failed, £40,000 on launching a pop band, and also tried running a pub and a massage parlour.

His wedding to glamour girl Kelly Arkins, 22, on a beach in the Bahamas, cost £10,000.


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i like the way he thinks

 

12 week marriage to a topless model.


At least Janet's better than that eh Nyc?

 

hell yea at least 13 weeks lolz

 

Whut!!?? >.<

 

Like they say: "Easy come, easy go".

 

I think the man is right if you have money spend it cos you dont know if your gonna wake up tomorrow and if you dont then the money has gone to waste

 

Let see how his "stock rich and money poor" is a recession. What a money waster.

 

^ But mind you, he has a very good point. What would be the point of carrying so much money to your coffin.

 

^exactly so might aswell live your life to the max when you can ^^

 

give it to children family

or

bury it in a secret location, leaving a series of clues for the world to discover

 

yeah true but still 2 million-700k for chairity is still 1.3 million. 1.3 is enough to not work for a good portion of his life while still doing the extra things.

 

and its not about who you can give it to. Its about if you can die peacefully knowing you have so much money and you couldve done so much with it

 

that guy is crazy!

 

So the famly can have a big argument as to who deserves the money? -whistle

 

He spent the cash on a boat, a nightclub, luxury properties, dabbling in different businesses and a 12 week marriage to a topless model.

hahaha ballin!! at 58... he def. did the rich the thing spending it all... considering he has nobody to leave the money with... might as well...

but yo... marriage to topless model?? why not jus get a diff one everyone week!?

 

its sort of like buying a expeirence that not alot of ppl can have.

 

£40,000 on launching a pop band... hahhaha...

that guy was a bad investor... but at least he enjoyed what he did...

It did not feel to me as if I was living a millionaire lifestyle but I did a few things when I had a bit of money like holidays and all that

now thas depressing..

 

i would of done the same .... spent it like it was nothing.... moneys like toilet paper.... u use it once n then its gone .....

 

i would have invested everything into Apple.. although i would wait for the iPhone to come out, cuz stocks are gonna drop like mad when no one buys that shit

 

He might be one of those Ontario retailer scammer. By going back to his old job, he scams more lotto $ lol.