EuroMillions winner swaps dream home for £125,000 before dying at 56

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EuroMillions winner Marguerite Legerie was found dead on Thursday morning, eight years after winning £27m. Her brother Paul said she recently returned to her old £125,000 home

Margaret Louvre – Maggie Millions – won the £27m jackpot eight years ago.

EuroMillions lottery winner Margaret Loughrey has died alone in a bungalow after giving up her £1m Grand Designs style home.

According to her brother Paul, the 56-year-old “cut all ties” with her family and was refusing to seek help due to a serious illness.

She was found dead on Thursday morning, eight years after receiving £27m, but her grieving sister insists she did not die by suicide.

Maggie Millions – who was unemployed when she bought the winning ticket in 2013 – has previously admitted that her windfall profits ruined her life and was trapped in trouble.

But Paul said she had been putting off getting help for a major medical problem for the past two weeks.

He explained that Margaret had given each of her four siblings £1m, but had had limited contact with her family for the past six years – and had struggled with mental health issues.

Margaret returns to her humble little home before she dies

Her tiny house – where she lived before he got rich – sits next to her recently built Victorian warehouse-style dream home and includes a glass-fronted showroom for her collection of classic cars.

She spent her last days on a modest estate in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, locked up with her two Scottish dogs, Terrior.

Margaret’s brother told the Daily Mail that his sister had “never managed to find happiness”.

He said, “Winning the lottery didn’t do any of us, let me tell you. The day I won, I said, ‘Life will never be the same, this is going to destroy some of us here.'” “

Paul insists that his sister was suffering from a mental illness that cut her ties with the family (

picture:

Trevor McBride) Paul said he hadn’t spoken to Margaret in six years

“It was too much to handle for Margaret. It was too much money. I couldn’t handle it. Personally I wouldn’t like it.”

Paul said he doesn’t know the cause of death yet, but we “know for sure” it wasn’t a suicide.

He continued, “She was very sick for two weeks, but she refused to go to the doctor and refused to go to the hospital. She was very weak.”

Paul went on to say that Margaret had made elaborate plans for her cremation and did not believe there would be a proper funeral service – despite the family’s invitation.

PSNI officers at the scene where Margaret’s body was found on Thursday (

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N.W. Newspix)

The proceedings are handled entirely by her attorney and will take place on Monday or Tuesday.

Paul said she wanted to turn her ashes into pebbles and scatter them on Marble Hill Beach in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland – the place where she vacationed as a child.

Describe how Margaret built her dream home on a vacant lot with outbuildings next to hers – it had high walls and big gates.

Paul said she only moved into her house for “one time” before returning to her original home because it was too big.

Margaret previously said winning the lottery ‘ruined her life’ (

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Trevor McBride)

Having earned £26,863,588 on a ticket bought on a whim on her way home from the duty station, Margaret bought her home for £125,000.

She reportedly gave up half of her fortune for good causes, as well as buying an abandoned former Herdmans flax mill with plans to turn it into a leisure and tourism center in order to create jobs for the community.

She also had plans to build a number of affordable homes on her land, as well as buy a local pub.

After her victory, she was briefly split into a mental health unit and said in 2019 that thieves stole a lot of her money, leaving her only £5m.

In one interview, she said: “Money has only brought me grief. It has ruined my life.

Margaret bought her winning ticket at SuperValu (

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PaceMaker)

“I’ve lived six years of this. I don’t believe in religion, but if there was a hell of it, I was in it. It was that bad. I went down to five and a half stone.”

Paul said he and his brothers and sisters all tried to help Margaret but she didn’t want to know.

He insisted she had psychological problems and “should have kept her inside” for six months but a lawyer argued in her corner and she was allowed out after a few weeks.

Paul believes that a lot of his sister’s problems are due to the death of her father when she was sixteen, with whom she was close.

He said before her victory that he used to see her every day, but after she did not want anything to do with her family, he claimed.

“The problem was her mental health,” he said. “I didn’t take it personally. It was her illness.”

Paul had to break the news of Margaret’s death to their 83-year-old mother, who had dementia.

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