After winning an $18 million lottery jackpot in 1993, Janite Lee's earnings were gone within a decade.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Lee, a wigmaker from South Korea, blew her winnings on, of all things, charity.

A reading room was named after her at Washington University's law school, and she was a major donor for the Democratic Party.

But her giving hand, coupled with a little gambling and a lot of credit-card debt, allegedly did her in. She filed for bankruptcy in 2001.