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Here's another story on the woes of a Lottery Winner.
"Juan Rodriguez wanted nothing more than to be one of the guys in rural South Texas where he was raised. And he was — until six years ago, when he had the misfortune to acquire almost $9 million in the Texas Lottery.
Today, he's lost his anonymity, his buddies, whatever girlfriends he once had and most of his family, whose members he no longer trusts. He rarely ventures outside the trailer here where he lives alone. Booze and the four dogs he keeps chained outside are his main companions.
"To tell you the truth, I wish I didn't win," he said from his living room one recent evening, nursing the first of nine Michelob Ultras he would drink by 10 p.m."
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He was convicted last month of assaulting a bar manager, and in May he settled with a woman who also accused him of assault.
Two casinos are suing him for allegedly bouncing checks in excess of $1.5 million, and the father of a teen who died of a drug overdose on his property in 2004 is suing him for wrongful death.
His beloved 17-year-old granddaughter also died in 2004 of a drug overdose, prompting his wife to remark to USA Today while the girl still was missing that had she known what lay ahead, "I would've torn up that ticket."
"Juan Rodriguez wanted nothing more than to be one of the guys in rural South Texas where he was raised. And he was — until six years ago, when he had the misfortune to acquire almost $9 million in the Texas Lottery.
Today, he's lost his anonymity, his buddies, whatever girlfriends he once had and most of his family, whose members he no longer trusts. He rarely ventures outside the trailer here where he lives alone. Booze and the four dogs he keeps chained outside are his main companions.
"To tell you the truth, I wish I didn't win," he said from his living room one recent evening, nursing the first of nine Michelob Ultras he would drink by 10 p.m."
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He was convicted last month of assaulting a bar manager, and in May he settled with a woman who also accused him of assault.
Two casinos are suing him for allegedly bouncing checks in excess of $1.5 million, and the father of a teen who died of a drug overdose on his property in 2004 is suing him for wrongful death.
His beloved 17-year-old granddaughter also died in 2004 of a drug overdose, prompting his wife to remark to USA Today while the girl still was missing that had she known what lay ahead, "I would've torn up that ticket."
