9 Times Lottery Winners Spent Their Money in the Weirdest Ways Possible

When people say something is as rare as “winning the lottery,” they mean it, because no matter how hard you try to game that system, it’s still 99.99% pure luck. Some people play it safe, buying one or two lottery tickets every few weeks; some try to “invest,” pouring money into their lucky numbers; and the brainiacs try to figure out the algorithm.

Regardless of who wins, one person will have a lot of money to waste. Below are nine real-world winners who took their windfalls in directions nobody had on their bingo card.

Jonathan Vargas — Wrestling Soap Opera

Jonathan Vargas won a $35.3 million Powerball jackpot when he was just 19. Not a bad start to his adult life, right? It would have been a great start if Vargas hadn’t almost immediately decided that the world needed a women’s wrestling league featuring comedy sketches. That’s how Wrestlicious was born, a Tampa-based project he funded with his winnings. When you look at it from the 19-year-old’s perspective, it makes perfect sense. After the first season, the show became a pop-culture curiosity, but a banger hit it was not.