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They Won the Lottery—and Friends and Family Turned on Them

CURSE OF THE LOTTO

“Everybody dreams of winning money, but nobody realizes the nightmares that come out of the woodwork,” lamented one jackpot winner whose own brother hired a hitman to kill him.

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