As of: March 13, 2024, 6:22 p.m
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Love over: Lotto winner Gillian Bayford separates from her partner.
Here she is seen with her first husband.
(Archive image) © Sean Dempsey/dpa
In 2012, Gillian Bayford hit a mega jackpot.
But the money might have run out if she hadn't separated from her husband, who had a criminal record.
Edinburgh – good luck in games, bad luck in love.
Gillian Bayford also had this experience.
She decided to throw her second husband out the door.
The reason: disputes about how the lottery winnings should be invested.
Instead of protecting his profits, he squandered his wife's money on luxury cars, expensive watches and first-class football trips.
Lotto winner hit the jackpot with her partner at the time in 2012
In 2012, Bayford and her husband from her first marriage won a jackpot worth 148 million pounds (173 million euros).
In order for the money to last until the end of her life, she had to separate from her second husband, who probably couldn't - or didn't want to - manage well.
The American Jack Whittaker also discovered that money alone doesn't make you happy, for whom his $15 million jackpot turned into a nightmare.
Bayford's first marriage had already failed because of his huge lottery win
Before the Bayford couple's windfall came in 2012, Gillian Bayford had a job at the hospital, while her then-husband Adrian Bayford worked as a postman and also worked in a music store, the
Sun reported.
The big lottery win was a huge sensation at the time and caused so much commotion that the marriage broke up.
According to
the Daily Mail,
the nine-year marriage only lasted another 15 months after winning the lottery.
The profit was then divided fairly between the two.
After giving expensive gifts to his lovers, Adrian Bayford was forced to part with his £6million mansion and estate in Cambridgeshire at a loss in 2021.
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In order to keep the lottery winnings, Bayford had to separate from her second schnorrer husband
As an unemployed person, her new husband ultimately received generous monthly pocket money from the lottery winner.
Instead of using the money sparingly, he threw it out the window and demanded more and more, people close to the two said.
“He saw it as an ATM,” a source told
the
Sun.
When the couple had a daughter in 2020, Gillian Bayford is said to have found it difficult to separate from her partner.
She is said to have repeatedly showered him with expensive gifts so that the family would stay together.
“All she wanted was for him to be happy and she never questioned him,” an insider told the newspaper.
But her partner is said to have had a dark past: In the same year that Gillian and her first husband won 148 million pounds (173 million euros), her second husband was jailed for six months for fraud.
He is alleged to have bilked thousands of pounds from supermarket chain Tesco by making fake refunds at a Dundee branch.
The lottery winner knew that her husband had already been convicted of fraud
However, after the second separation, Gillian revealed that she knew about her second husband's past but always believed in the good.
“It’s been six years and he’s been punished for his stupidity,” she told the
Sun
.
After all - from Gillian's point of view - a prenuptial agreement prevented a large part of the assets from going to the ex-wife after the divorce.
The former con man now runs a pub after allegedly spending everything he received from Gillian.
(cg)