Jane Park was just 17 when she won a £1 Million EuroMillions jackpot. Jane had cameras follow her round for the first year after winning her fortune, filming BBC3’s new documentary 'Teenage Millionaire.'
Read MoreDavid Hendry, 45, and his wife Donna, 44, from Edinburgh, who won £4 million. PHOTO: Daily Mail
In an amazing coincidence, a lifelong Elvis fan won enough money to visit the singer's Graceland home - and his win came on what would have been the day of Elvis's 80th birthday.
Read MoreGillian Bayford won £148 million with her now ex-husband Adrian, and lives in the couple's home with 100 acres of grounds. PHOTO: Daily Mail
It's to keep them grounded. That's the reason Gillian Bayford gave for only handing out £3 (US$4.70) weekly to each of her two children.
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Joe Denette is presented with his win by Virginia Lottery executive Paula Otto.
It started with a $75 million Mega Millions win for the longtime NASCAR fan, and ended when Joe Denette bought his own team.
Jane Park (left) with Leon Rendle and his mother Nicky at the fish and chip shop in Edinburgh. Photo: Edinburgh News
Euromillions winner Jane Park, 19, started her buying spree with the £1.1 million win with Louis Vuitton bags and a chihuahua. Then she started work in an Edinburgh fish and chip shop.
And now the Scot has put her money behind a good cause…
Read MoreThe teepee-themed motel is a popular attraction in Wharton, Texas.
Legend has it Willie Nelson has stayed there. So has Elvis Presley. And Dolly Parton.
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Tom Cruise in 'A Few Good Men,' a 1992 film about adversity in the armed services.
When I was a young man in our country's air force (a photographer--no other kind of shooting!) I would notice something unusual happening from time to time.
Jane with her dog and Louis Vuitton bags near her home in Edinburgh. Photo: Daily Record
Scottish teenager Jane Park, 17, was passing by a local store one day last year. The charity shop worker saw a sign for the National Lottery and decided to play. It was the very first lotto ticket she had ever bought.
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No hiding here! £161 million Euromillions winner Colin Weir learns about his win. Photo: Daily Mail
Most winners are told to keep their lottery win a secret from the public. What do you think? Would you tell everyone about your win?
Powerball lottery officials say there were three winning tickets for Wednesday night's $564 million drawing - making the February 2015 draw the third-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
The winners - who have not yet come forward - will join a long list of people that Powerball has made very wealthy over the years, say CNN Money.
Here are the top jackpots in Powerball history and who won them:
$590.5M Powerball winner Gloria MacKenzie leaves the Crazy Egg restaurant in Florida alongside her son Scott and his partner Jerry Cruz.In one of the most unusual wishlists in lottery history, Brad Duke wanted to turn his $86 million Powerball jackpot win back in 2005 into $1 billion. And he wanted to do that within three years. Did he?
Read MoreIn a story just come to hand, we discovered that the sweet old woman who won the $590 million Powerball last year was not who she seemed. And it took a 10-year-old to uncover her act.
Mindy Crandell and 10-year-old daughter Mallory.
It seems that before her win, 84-year-old Gloria C. Mackenzie was at the same lottery store as mother-of-two Mindy Crandell and her daughter. Then suddenly...
Retired billionaire Tom Crist won $40 million in the Canada Lotto Max.
BACK a little while we reported how a billionaire (above) won a $40 million lottery jackpot, and gave it all away.
But it's not only the super rich who have given the game a passing glance.
These following celebrities - and you'll recognise more than a few familiar faces - all confess to have played the lottery at some time.
A Grandmother from South Ockendon in Britain got a double surprise recently. Vera Webber mistakenly thought her Euromillions prize was only £20,000, but found it was £1 Million (about US $1.6 million) after her daughter checked the numbers. Then the keen Elvis Presley fan was presented with her publicity check by an Elvis impersonator. She intends visiting the King's shrine at Graceland, USA.
PHOTO: Thurrock Gazette
Green Island’s new $250,000 spray park at the Paine Street Park, New York was built with a donation from State Lottery winners John and Linda Kutey in honor of their parents. The Kuteys donated $200,000 to construct the spray park. John Kutey was one of seven employees who cashed in a $319 million winning Mega Millions ticket in 2011. His share was $28.7 million.The singer bought it in 1967 and sold it 6 years later. The home has had millions spent on it since. Via Coldwell Banker. More photos.
Put Elvis's old home on your list to buy after your Mega Millions win!
PRICE: $12,995,000
LOCATION: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA.
COUNTIN': 4 beds, 5 baths, 5367 sq ft, 1.8 acres
OWNER: Formerly Elvis & Priscilla Presley
GAME TO WIN: Mega Millions: - $53M
BALANCE AFTER PURCHASE: $40M and change
You probably know about Simon Cowell, producer and acid-tongued judge in the "American Idol" tv series.
He's one of the highest paid people in the business. His fortune is estimated around $364 million.
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Tom Cruise in the film Minority Report predicted crimes before they happened. So can I...
My wife was outraged. I had been pointing to photographs of convicted criminals in one of our national newspapers.
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