A MAN who married a topless model after winning a £2.8million lotto jackpot saw the marriage end in tatters and lost everything.
Mike Antonucci, an antique dealer, won the mouth-watering cash when he hit the lucky numbers in 1995.
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Mike was catapulted from skid row to instant multi-millionaire status after snatching the golden ticket.
Thinking he was set for life, Antonucci quickly left his job and went on a literal spending spree that took him across the world.
Mike decided to marry topless model Kelly Arkins, then 22, in a £10,000 Bahamas ceremony.
Cash-rich Mike even bought her £4,500 breast implants.
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But the marriage with Kelly, who is 28 years his junior, lasted just 12 weeks and ended in tatters.
Mike revealed his marriage has never been consummated and claimed at the time, he had not had sex with mum-of-one Kelly since before the wedding.
The lotto winner said: “I’ve tried my hardest to make things work. I don’t know what has gone wrong.”
Outside of love, Mike’s newfound bachelor lifestyle consisted of fast cars, yachts and luxury holidays.
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Antonucci also invested in a massage parlour, pub, nightclub and a pop music venue.
The multi-millionaire splashed out on a £750,000 estate, a £250,000 harbour-side apartment and a £200,000 speedboat.
But Mike’s money didn’t last forever either.
Antonucci’s lifestyle unsurprisingly only sustained him for a decade.
His string of businesses, including an attempt to launch a pop band, flopped and eventually saw him returning to recycling house clearance furniture.
Eventually, Mike ended up in court in a row over just £400.
In 2009, some 14 years after his lottery win, Mike appeared in court charged with assaulting a shop owner that he claimed owed him money.
He was found guilty and fined £720.
Mike told magistrates in Plymouth at the time: “I have had situations in my life in the last 15 years. When you go through certain experiences these things happen to you.”
The former antiques dealer even ended up sleeping on a lilo in one of the pubs he ran in Plymouth, Devon.
Since then he has remained under the radar.
And he was last reported to be working as a furniture exporter and living “day to day”.
It comes as the self-styled “King Of Chavs” Michael Carroll wore an electronic ankle tag when he scooped £9.7 million on the National Lottery in 2002.
He was aged 19 at the time and splurged his fortune on a six-bedroom mansion in Norfolk, which he kitted out with a swimming pool and car racing track.
Michael’s drug addiction saw him spending £2k a day on cocaine and eventually left him penniless.
Meanwhile, Jane Park was the youngest ever Brit to win the EuroMillions when she scooped the £1 million jackpot aged 17 in 2013.
But things took a turn for the worse when she felt “empty” after her win and splurged £4.5k on a boob job 34B to 36FF and another few thousand on a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in Turkey.
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Jane was left fearing for her life after having a severe reaction to the anaesthetic and contracting sepsis back in 2017.
Now 28 and wiser, she believes winning the lottery cursed her life and she wishes it never happened.
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