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Boy, Candicame and badbabysitter are gonna fume when they see what I'm laughing about today.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...--Divorcee-won-lottery-blew-lot-spite-ex.html
Two Mercedes, five boob jobs, a new nose, Gucci handbags... Divorcee who won the lottery and blew the lot to spite her ex
By BETH HALE
Last updated at 12:58 PM on 24th November 2011
Cartier watch gleaming on one wrist and square-cut diamonds twinkling in both ears, Karen Flook gives a nonchalant shrug of her spray-tanned shoulders and laughs as she admits that she doesn’t have much concept of the value of money.
Given recent events, that is a monumental understatement.
In the past four years, Karen has won — and lost — a small fortune. You name it, she’s splashed out on it; two Mercedes, Gucci handbags, five-star holidays in the South of France, shoes at £400 a pair. And then there’s the plastic surgery (breast enhancements, a nose job . . . and so on, Karen’s had it done).
Today she is perched on the edge of a white sofa in her rented flat in Chigwell, Essex, her ample cleavage (the result of five breast surgeries) on proud display, as she is ruminating that she is now tens of thousands of pounds in debt. This, despite a stroke of financial good fortune that most of us can only dream of.
Four years ago, Karen won £130,000 on the National Lottery as part of a syndicate that scooped the jackpot — and over the next 12 months she blew the lot and plenty more besides.
Right now her finances are a colossal mess: her house is in the hands of the mortgage lender, and credit cards debts, bank loans and mortgage arrears have left her owing about £60,000.
In addition to her financial woes, Karen found herself fighting for her life in hospital earlier this year — the result, she thinks, of corrective work on her most recent breast surgery.
Whatever her mistakes, Karen is honest about her predicament. A disarmingly friendly 39-year-old, she expects no sympathy from those struggling in straitened times.
‘If I had that money now I’d be a little bit wiser with it, that’s for sure,’ she says.
Of course, tales of Lottery winners whose lives were not enriched by their winnings are hardly uncommon. It’s not just what Karen spent the money on that makes her unusual, it’s why.
Put simply, she didn’t want her ex-husband getting his hands on any of it. So she spent the lot in just 12 months, chiefly on plastic surgery.
Karen was 33 and working for a legal firm as a secretary when she married her City banker husband in 2004. Daughter Tiagisele arrived soon after, and the family set up home in a three-bedroom semi-detached home in London.
By Christmas 2005, however, the marriage was over and Karen found herself as a struggling single mother. Four months after she returned from maternity leave, however, her luck turned when her work syndicate won the lottery jackpot.
‘I was so excited, I couldn’t believe the good news, but then I started panicking about whether I would have to give my estranged husband any of the money. We’d been separated for about a year-and-a-half, but we weren’t divorced, and people were saying, “Be careful, you don’t want him to get half.”’
The wise thing to do would have been to take legal advice. But Karen had other ideas: just like Sixties’ football pools winner Viv Nicholson, she would spend, spend, spend.
‘There was no way I was going to give my ex anything,’ says Karen. ‘I thought about buying a property and renting it out, but I didn’t want him to have any claim to half my assets. So it was a case of spending the money and having fun, and right then I needed it.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...--Divorcee-won-lottery-blew-lot-spite-ex.html
Two Mercedes, five boob jobs, a new nose, Gucci handbags... Divorcee who won the lottery and blew the lot to spite her ex
By BETH HALE
Last updated at 12:58 PM on 24th November 2011
Cartier watch gleaming on one wrist and square-cut diamonds twinkling in both ears, Karen Flook gives a nonchalant shrug of her spray-tanned shoulders and laughs as she admits that she doesn’t have much concept of the value of money.
Given recent events, that is a monumental understatement.
In the past four years, Karen has won — and lost — a small fortune. You name it, she’s splashed out on it; two Mercedes, Gucci handbags, five-star holidays in the South of France, shoes at £400 a pair. And then there’s the plastic surgery (breast enhancements, a nose job . . . and so on, Karen’s had it done).
Today she is perched on the edge of a white sofa in her rented flat in Chigwell, Essex, her ample cleavage (the result of five breast surgeries) on proud display, as she is ruminating that she is now tens of thousands of pounds in debt. This, despite a stroke of financial good fortune that most of us can only dream of.
Four years ago, Karen won £130,000 on the National Lottery as part of a syndicate that scooped the jackpot — and over the next 12 months she blew the lot and plenty more besides.
Right now her finances are a colossal mess: her house is in the hands of the mortgage lender, and credit cards debts, bank loans and mortgage arrears have left her owing about £60,000.
In addition to her financial woes, Karen found herself fighting for her life in hospital earlier this year — the result, she thinks, of corrective work on her most recent breast surgery.
Whatever her mistakes, Karen is honest about her predicament. A disarmingly friendly 39-year-old, she expects no sympathy from those struggling in straitened times.
‘If I had that money now I’d be a little bit wiser with it, that’s for sure,’ she says.
Of course, tales of Lottery winners whose lives were not enriched by their winnings are hardly uncommon. It’s not just what Karen spent the money on that makes her unusual, it’s why.
Put simply, she didn’t want her ex-husband getting his hands on any of it. So she spent the lot in just 12 months, chiefly on plastic surgery.
Karen was 33 and working for a legal firm as a secretary when she married her City banker husband in 2004. Daughter Tiagisele arrived soon after, and the family set up home in a three-bedroom semi-detached home in London.
By Christmas 2005, however, the marriage was over and Karen found herself as a struggling single mother. Four months after she returned from maternity leave, however, her luck turned when her work syndicate won the lottery jackpot.
‘I was so excited, I couldn’t believe the good news, but then I started panicking about whether I would have to give my estranged husband any of the money. We’d been separated for about a year-and-a-half, but we weren’t divorced, and people were saying, “Be careful, you don’t want him to get half.”’
The wise thing to do would have been to take legal advice. But Karen had other ideas: just like Sixties’ football pools winner Viv Nicholson, she would spend, spend, spend.
‘There was no way I was going to give my ex anything,’ says Karen. ‘I thought about buying a property and renting it out, but I didn’t want him to have any claim to half my assets. So it was a case of spending the money and having fun, and right then I needed it.’
