Money brings out the worst in some people

There will be no fallings out here then....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3874400/World-s-richest-man-Bill-Gates-says-three-children-understand-won-t-leaving-70billion-fortune-dies.html

Good for them.

I was though very disappointed (!) when I found out that Bill wasn't going to send the money he promised me.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ms-money-giveway-hoax.html

You certainly seem to be a target for various different hoaxes and the like, Freedom.

I think Bill's kids will be more than happy with a mere billion to divide up. They should be able to get by on that.

Absolutely Andrew and they will probably have a load of shares in Microsoft......so not really telling the whole story is he? They will keep their status in the society they are used to living in at the moment......Bill knows that... He just doesn't want anyone to figure it out!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2125072/david-gests-family-sue-after-im-a-celeb-star-left-them-nothing-while-giving-his-lawyer-10million/

I’M A Celebrity star David Gest’s family have begun legal action after they were left nothing in his will.
The US entertainer, who died from a stroke aged 62 in April, left most of his estimated £10million fortune to his attorney.

10 Million... I'm sure all the papers were saying he was skint, heavily in debt and living out of a hotel or something at the time of his death

It does sound a bit unusual to be leaving most of your money to your lawyer - perhaps it was the one who sorted out his divorce from Liza Minnelli!

I seem to recall he wanted exactly 10 million from Liza Minnelli when he divorced.

Yes, I should imagine it is the same lawyer.

I read a bit about David Gest, though it could just be journalistic nonsense I suppose.
He was living in the Four Seasons Hotel when he died, in a suite costing £1,000 per night.

His estate comprised a house in Tennessee, a lot of Michael Jackson memorabilia and the rights to Dionne Warwick's songs, vids etc.
Don't know if that lot would be worth 10 million, doubtful I'd think.

He might have owed his lawyer money - lawyers don't come cheap after all.  
I imagine even minor celebs have expensive lifestyles they feel important to maintain, not been there myself so can't understand that.
It does become so very unsavoury and demeaning after a death when the vultures start wanting/expecting benefits though.


ETA@   just seen your post Andrew  -  so that's where the figure of 10 million comes from ! Maybe Liza was paying that off in monthly instalments?? Ending when he died?

According to this, all he got was £5,000.00.

http://metro.co.uk/2007/01/25/gest-settles-divorce-for-just-5-000-13432/

Jane Park to sue Euromillions for letting her gamble at 17 after claiming £1m win 'ruined her life'

Jane believes people under 18 shouldn't be allowed to land such a big prize and she is now taking legal action against the lottery giant.

Teenage Euromillions winner Jane Park has revealed she wants to sue Lotto bosses for “ruining her life”.

Jane Park was 17 when she scooped £1million after getting lucky with her first-ever ticket in 2013.

Now, she is planning to take legal action against Euromillions for negligence, claiming someone her age shouldn’t have been allowed to win.

Now 21, the wealthy property investor admits she thought winning the jackpot would make her life “10 times better”. Instead, she insists it “became 10 times worse”.

In an incredible interview, Jane even says sometimes she wishes she “had never won at all”.

Her frank admission come days after she pled not guilty to a drink-driving charge at a McDonald’s in her home city of Edinburgh.

But while most of her friends are struggling to make ends meet, Jane insists life is actually more stressful for her – because she was saddled with the burden of a being a millionaire as a teenager.

Despite owning two homes, Jane says the win has even taken the fun out of shopping because she can afford anything she wants.

Stressing that life isn’t all “Champagne and sparkles”, she even moans that being able to afford luxury holidays to hotspots such as the Maldives are not fun as older people at resorts look down on her for getting “hammered”.

Jane is now consulting with solicitors about taking legal action against the owners of Euromillions, saying the age limit should be raised from 16.

In a comment that will leave those on the breadline furious, she said: “People look at me and think, ‘I wish I had her lifestyle, I wish I had her money’ but they don’t realise the extent of my stress.



“They don’t know what they’re wishing for. They would need to spend some time in my shoes to understand.

“I have material things but apart from that, my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?”

She added: “I think 18 should be the minimum age for winning the lottery, at the least. The current age of 16 is far too young.

“At times, it feels like winning the lottery has ruined my life. I thought it would make it 10 times better but it’s made it 10 times worse.

“Most days, I wish I had no money. I say to myself, ‘My life would be so much easier if I hadn’t won.’ And if I had won £100million, it would have been 100 times worse than this.”

When she won in 2013, Jane, then 17, toasted her win with Irn-Bru as she was too young to drink. She was working in a temporary admin job and living with her mum Linda in a two-bedroom flat in a council estate in Niddrie, Edinburgh.

She said: “I wasn’t allowed a bottle of Champagne, so I got Irn-Bru in a glass. But I was given £1million, how does that add up?”

Four years on, she feels she never really understood what difference the money would make to her life.

Jane said: “My nana said when I first got the money, ‘You might as well have given her a gun.’ I was like, ‘Nana, what are you talking about? This is the best thing ever?’

“Now, I totally agree with her. She was saying you can’t give a 17-year-old that amount of money.”

Camelot, who runs the Euromillions in the UK, appointed an adviser to help Jane manage her finances.

But she insists it was only her common sense and sage family advice that stopped her blowing it all in a month.

Jane said: “I’ve read about other lottery winners who have blown it all and I can totally see how it can be done.

“I was stuck in front of a financial adviser who was using words such as investment bonds. I had no clue what they meant.

“I was appointed a Camelot representative but I can’t even remember her name.”

While Jane bought property thanks to family advice, she also splashed out on some treats – including the Louis Vuitton handbag she still uses today.

She also bought a chihuahua, Princess, who didn’t last quite so long.


She added: “My dog stays with my auntie but I still go and see her. At the time, there was too much going on – she didn’t like my car and I didn’t have time for her.”

Her car, a purple Range Rover, has also been a disappointment. She said: “It was flashy and people were always looking at me but it was far too big.”

Jane has had holidays to the US and the Maldives but prefers Benidorm and Magaluf.

She said: “I don’t go on holiday that much, about four times a year.

“I wait until my friends can go. Although I’ve been to the Maldives, I much prefer Benidorm because nobody is looking down at you. You can get as drunk as you want.

“In the Maldives, you can’t go and get absolutely hammered and crawl back to your water bungalow. It was more older, honeymooney.”

The win has also impacted on her love life. She had an 18-month relationship which ended in a bitter row last year.

And she worries she will never know if a man really likes her.


Credits: Gordon Jack Provided by Trinity Mirror Plc Credits: Gordon Jack  
She said: “With the last one, I showered him with gifts. I thought it would make him happy. I bought him a Rolex, a car, clothes every week. I regret it all.”


Jane has a weakness for shoes and bags. And despite saying she dislikes the money, she bought herself £4500 breast implants when she was 18 and admits she would have had more work if surgeons had allowed it.

She said: “I wanted a quick fix for my weight but when I spoke to a surgeon, he said I wasn’t overweight enough to have liposuction.

“I would have had liposuction in my thighs then maybe my belly and my arms – that’s how easy it could have spiralled out of control.”

But Jane did lose control in other parts of her life.

Last May, she was fined £110 for assaulting bouncer Lee Rutherford at Edinburgh’s City nightclub.

Next month, she is set to stand trial for being three times over the limit in her BMW at a McDonald’s drive thru, a charge she strenuously denies. Speaking about the assault she was fined for, she said: “It could be anyone making these silly decisions but it’s 10 times harder on me than on someone who has not won the lottery.

“It’s my own stupid fault. I should have walked away from the situation but I was young, had all this money, was going out all the time and got caught up in a moment.”


Jane parties about three times a week, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with the same pals she had before her life changed.

But she said: “If I’m sitting there with a bottle of vodka or Champagne, people in the club think, ‘She’s sitting there

thinking she’s Billy Bigtime.’ It does upset me a wee bit.”


Jane loves posting glamorous snaps of herself on Instagram and calls herself “Jane Sexual Park” on Twitter. She also likes to tweet about her favourite football team Hibs.

However, she says trolls have left her depressed. She said: “It’s the usual stuff: ‘You’re fat, you’re ugly, you look s**t.’

“The worst was when I said I’d help a young boy who was sick and pay for him to go to Florida.

“A couple of folk said I was just doing it for publicity. That was too far. The boy was literally dying and I went out of my way to do something nice.”

Jane initially moved into her own home but decided to move back into a small flat with her mum – because she does everything for her, including her laundry.

She often wonders what her life would be like if she hadn’t won the money.

She said: “I feel like I’m a 40-year-old. I’ve got to deal with these problems as they come, that’s my life now and I can’t change it.”

Jane has said she will donate any compensation from her legal action against Euromillions to charity






More on link as can't be arsed to copy anymore of this absolute rubbish!!!!

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jane-park-to-sue-euromillions-for-letting-her-gamble-at-17-after-claiming-%c2%a31m-win-ruined-her-life/ar-AAmQtHg?li=BBoPWjQ




Unbelievable, what a self centred person, she will give the compensation if she wins to charity, why not the money she won if it was that much of a pain to her.  Grrrrrr    

I don't believe a word of that.
Plenty of homeless, sick, starving people and animals that would benefit from money.
This woman needs treatment imo.

I thought it was an April Fool, what a selfish person she must be. Horrible!

It's like the story the other day of the Cambridge student and the homeless man who he taunted by taking out a £20 note, the homeless man thinking he was giving it to him, and the student taking out his lighter and burning the note in front of him. He then went on to post the pics or video on social media, and to his dismay there was an outcry about it... the University is not best pleased either.

This is IMO a very sick person. If the money is such a burden, she could have given [part of] it away. Despite the life, she doesn't like, she goes partying twice a week and on expensive holidays four times a year. Go figure ...

I've just read it again and it's worse the second time!! What a sad, selfish person. She says she only has 4 holidays a year as she has to wait for her friends to have holidays. I'm surprised she has any friends at all.

She's away with the fairies i know Niddrie and while there is a lot of good people live there for the most part the residents are drink or drug dependent or both,i watched the documentary about her win.I think her problem is that the attention has wore off and this is her way of getting it back.

She should give it away the silly girl.

Apart from all the other b***sh*t she spouts, this alone gives one an insight to her character !! I think dannii has her down to type.

She also bought a chihuahua, Princess, who didn’t last quite so long.
She added: “My dog stays with my auntie but I still go and see her. At the time, there was too much going on – she didn’t like my car and I didn’t have time for her.”

As IF a little [priceless] doggie is the same as buying a handbag or a bracelet ....

There are some airheads for whom buying a pet is a status symbol like a designer handbag or shoes.

My guess is she's running out of money. A million quid isn't what it was.

I know ... I was a millionaire once too. Then the French put their grubby hands into it and now I'm surviving ... ;-)

Money doesn`t equate to value as a human being though, which she mistakenly thought.

She's at it again, what a media grabbing attention seeker.....

Britain's youngest Euromillions winner labelled 'ungrateful cow' by This Morning viewers after moaning about her riches AGAIN

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/britains-youngest-euromillions-winner-labeled-10001473

A postscript to the story.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/15/supreme-court-rule-case-daughter-left-mothers-160k-will-favour/

Presumably if the daughter has now spent all the money that she was awarded, the charities will still get nothing.

Here she is again - why am I not surprised to hear that she has been spending money on cosmetic surgery to make herself look like a circus freak.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3899372/youngest-euromillions-winner-jane-park-is-fighting-for-her-life-with-sepsis-after-brazilian-bum-lift-went-wrong/