I won £2.8m lotto but ended up in court over £400 – I slept on a lilo after blowing cash on boat and glamour model wife
A MAN who scooped £2.8million on the Lotto ended up in court over just £400 after he blew all the cash in a lavish spending spree.
Going way back to 1995, Mike Antonucci, an antique dealer, won the eye-watering sum when he got his hands on the golden ticket.
Thinking he was set for life, Antonucci quickly left his job and went on a literal spending spree that took him across the world.
His newfound bachelor lifestyle consisted of fast cars, yachts and luxury holidays.
Antonucci also invested in a massage parlour, pub, nightclub and a pop music venue.
The multi-millionaire splashed out on a £750,000 estate, a £250,000 harbour-side apartment and a £200,000 speedboat.
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He then married topless model Kelly Arkins, then 22, in a £10,000 Bahamas ceremony.
Antonucci even bought her £4,500 breast implants.
But the marriage lasted just 12 weeks and his businesses, including an attempt to launch a pop band, flopped.
At one stage he wound up sleeping on a lilo in a pub he ran in Plymouth thanks to his terrible decisions.
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This combined with a string of failed business ventures eventually saw him returning to recycling house clearance furniture.
Antonucci’s lifestyle unsurprisingly only sustained him for a decade.
Eventually, Mike ended up in court in a row over just £400.
In 2009, some 14 years after his lottery win, Mike appeared in court charged with assaulting a shop owner he claimed owed him money.
He was found guilty and fined £720.
Mike told magistrates in Plymouth at the time: "I have had situations in my life in the last 15 years. When you go through certain experiences these things happen to you."
He was last reported to be living ";day to day" as a furniture exporter in 2012.
It comes as the self-styled "King Of Chavs" Michael Carroll wore an electronic ankle tag when he scooped £9.7 million on the National Lottery in 2002.
He was aged 19 at the time and splurged his fortune on a six-bedroom mansion in Norfolk, which he kitted out with a swimming pool and car racing track.
Michael’s drug addiction saw him spending £2k a day on cocaine and eventually left him penniless.
Meanwhile, Jane Park was the youngest ever Brit to win the EuroMillions when she scooped the £1 million jackpot aged 17 in 2013.
At the time of her win, she was an admin temp earning £8-an-hour, and was living in a two-bedroom Edinburgh council flat she shared with her mum Linda.
But things took a turn for the worse when she felt “empty” after her win and splurged £4.5k on a boob job 34B to 36FF and another few thousand on a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in Turkey.
Jane was left fearing for her life after having a severe reaction to the anaesthetic and contracting sepsis back in 2017.
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Two years later, she launched her OnlyFans to flog topless pictures of herself, followed by more plastic surgery to get her “” with liposuction and a corrective BBL.
Now 28 and wiser, she believes winning the lottery cursed her life and she wishes it never happened.