For lottery¹ winner Lucien Nault, it might have been better to have no luck at all.

 

The 77-year-old Montreal man won $16.9 million in Canada's Lotto 6/49 in 2009, but his life since has been mired²（陷入困境） with lawsuits⁴ and untimely（不合时宜地） deaths in his family, the Sun News reports.

 

Nault recently learned that his son Daniel was struck and killed by a Jeep as he crossed a street near his home in Montreal to retrieve⁵ his dog.

 

Daniel Nault was returning from the Gaspe region of the country, where he recently buried his wife (and Lucien's daughter-in-law), Therese Rehel, according to the Sun News.

 

Rehel died when she drowned at home in a new, lavish⁶ pool built with proceeds from Lucien's winnings.

 

The couple dined with friends at their favorite steak house to celebrate the opening of the pool, which took all summer to build, a few days before Rehel was found dead in the water.

 

Nault had given his son a huge cut of the lottery winnings, but Daniel became upset when his father apparently⁷ gave away another $5 million to neighbors. Daniel sued four of them, alleging⁸ that one manipulated his father into buying her a house, a car and other items.

 

Besides that, Nault's wife left him a few months after he won big in the lottery, the Canadian newspaper reports.

 

Roger Thibodeau, a brother-in-law of Lucien Nault's ex-wife, is also named in Daniel Nault's $1.3 million lawsuit³.

 

And according to the paper, Nault is now in a seniors home, with "his mind apparently fading."

 

Seems winning a lot of money isn't always a blessing⁹. In the case of Lucien Nault, it's almost a curse.

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