Viv Nicholson

VIV NICHOLSON d2015. British woman who became famous when she told the media that she would "spend, spend, spend" after her second of five husbands (Keith) won £152,319 (equivalent to £3,600,000 in 2021) on Littlewoods football pools in 1961. His and his wife's lavish spending sprees over the next few years quickly depleted their fortune. Having no concept of how to manage and save money, she admitted that her spending was akin to a narcotics addiction. After Keith died in a car accident in 1965, the remaining fortune rapidly dwindled to nothing and she was declared bankrupt. In 1968, she won a three-year legal battle to gain £34,000 from her husband's estate, but rapidly lost it all by more uncontrolled spending. She died in Wakefield aged 79 on April 11th 2015