Lottery winner’s chilling prediction of his own demise after winning a £13million jackpot

A lottery winner made a chilling prediction of his own demise just weeks after winning a £13 million jackpot prize.

Trevor Cooper, from Te Kauwhata in the North Island, New Zealand, said money “doesn’t buy love” after being left single and alone following his life-changing win.

The former supermarket cashier said winning the Lotto wasn’t the most exciting thing to ever happen to him either.

And despite earning more than £9,639 a week in interest after becoming a multi-millionaire, Trevor said his life didn’t change dramatically.

“Money can’t buy happiness, and it can’t buy love; it helps, but it doesn’t buy happiness,” Trevor told the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly in 2012.

“I still go home. I still go to bed and I still get up in the morning and I’m still alone.”

However, that was until he met and fell in love with Sharie Marshall before having a lavish wedding at the Karaka mansion that he paid for with his winnings.

The couple married on February 15, 2013 on the lawn of Trevor’s sprawling £963,000 estate in South Auckland.

Former comedian and television host Ewen Gilmour was just one of more than a hundred friends and family in attendance.

The event was heavily guarded by security and Trevor’s two sons watched as he rode a new Harley-Davidson to lead the convoy of cars to meet his bride.

Public records show the happily married couple owned 12 properties between 2013 and 2015, with Trevor investing in multimillion-dollar homes for his parents Kevin and Shirley and sister Sharon.

But Trevor and Sharie’s whirlwind romance was over within three years and they were soon divorced.

However, there was no prenuptial agreement between the couple, despite Trevor’s Lotto win months before their wedding.

“I’ve told both my children, especially Trevor, that you don’t need a prenup if you love them and they love you – it’s trust and understanding,” his mother, Shirley, told the New Zealand Herald in 2019.

“I never advised him to buy one, it was his choice.”

Although her relationship with her son had become strained after his marriage, Shirley said she wasn’t shocked to hear that things had gone pear-shaped.

“I knew the marriage wouldn’t last,” she said. “But I have told both my children who they marry, it is their choice and I will fully support them. Unfortunately, that is what you have to do as a parent.”

Despite her son’s divorce and their rocky relationship throughout his marriage, Shirley admits she was glad the couple got together.

Before meeting Sharie, Shirley said her son had been lonely and never had a “string of girlfriends”.

“I was happy that he had someone. He said to me: ‘You have father, Sharon has a partner, I have no one’.”

But Trevor’s chilling prediction of his own demise ultimately proved true when his newfound riches were not enough to protect him from heartache.

According to the New Zeland Herald, Sharie remarried and had her third child with a man named Michael Capper, to whom she was engaged before her relationship with Trevor.

As for the multi-millionaire himself, he reportedly found love again with accountant Arlene Frost.

But this time, Shirley loves her son’s new partner.

“She’s a nice lady and we get along great,” she said. “I have a feeling he’ll be a lot more careful.

“They live together. She needed a place to live, he offered her a bedroom and things grew from there.”

Elsewhere, a clever man bagged a whopping £21 million Lotto prize and decided to spend the money in a way that would give him something back.

Cliff Little became an overnight millionaire, quitting his job the day after winning the entire Powerball Jackpot in Australia.

And a lottery seller has hit the jackpot after selling tickets for 30 years.

Onchan Suriyon, 63, set up her stall 30 years ago and dreamed of one day winning the prize herself to pay off her debts.