What would you do if you won the lottery? Scottish lottery winner, Colin Weir, blew $50 million of his record-breaking winnings in the eight years before his death.<\/p>\n
He bagged a record-breaking<\/a> $257.6 million EuroMillions jackpot in 2011,\u00a0according to The Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n That makes him officially one of the UK\u2019s biggest lottery winners \u2013 and the second-biggest EuroMillions winner ever at the time he won.<\/p>\n READ MORE! Powerball winner Edwin Castro just dropped millions on this LA mansion after his $2 billion win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n He invested in a soccer team, race horses, and extravagant cars \u2013 but soon after his luck ran out.<\/p>\n Hailing from North Ayrshire in Scotland, it\u2019s said that Weir blew through a massive $131,900 per week.<\/p>\n As well as the big-ticket items, it also went on luxury items and investments.<\/p>\n <\/a>Savills<\/p>\n The former cameraman was married to former psychiatric nurse, Chris.<\/p>\n The pair lived out their dream of buying a 55 percent share in Glasgow\u2019s Partick Thistle Football Club \u2013 but his dream was, sadly, short lived. <\/p>\n <\/a>Unsplash<\/p>\n His final years were lived out in style, with Weir investing in a stunning car collection \u2013 something most lottery winners do<\/a>.<\/p>\n It included a vintage Bentley Arnage<\/a>, Jaguar F-Pace SUV, and a Mercedes-Benz<\/a> E Class Estate.<\/p>\n He added to his property portfolio with a $6 million home he spent millions more to renovate.<\/p>\n <\/a>Wikimedia Commons<\/a>Partick Thistle FC<\/p>\n Weir bought three prized racing thoroughbreds, including geldings, Knighted and Felony, and an Irish mare named \u2018If You Say Run\u2019.<\/p>\n He also established a charitable trust.<\/p>\n The charity was called the Weir Charitable Trust and fell foul of a scam in 2015.<\/p>\n Hoax emails were sent offering cash.<\/p>\n Police Scotland\u00a0were made aware of the scam and warned people to steer clear of suspicious emails.<\/p>\n <\/a>YouTube\/Channel 4<\/a>YouTube\/Channel 4<\/a>YouTube\/Channel 4<\/p>\n It was reportedly the third time the Weirs had been targeted by fraudsters since their lottery win in 2011.<\/p>\n However, the rumored lottery curse really reared its head in 2018.<\/p>\n He divorced his wife of almost four decades \u2013 and she took her slice of his winnings, which is something that has happened to other lottery winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n His wealth passed down to his two children following his death from sepsis and an acute kidney injury at age 72 in 2019.<\/p>\n The post How lottery winner tore through record-breaking $50 million win including outrageous cars<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What would you do if you won the lottery? Scottish lottery winner, Colin Weir, blew $50 million of his record-breaking winnings in the eight years before his death. He bagged a record-breaking $257.6 million EuroMillions jackpot in 2011,\u00a0according to The Independent. That makes him officially one of the UK\u2019s biggest lottery winners \u2013 and the …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}