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FILE - South Carolina Education Lottery Director, Ernie Passailaigue , right, extends his hand to Monica and Anthony Wilson, of Charlotte, N.C., as he presents them with a check for their Powerball winnings Thursday May 29, 2003, at Red Rocket Fireworks in Fort Mill, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)

After Iowa gas station employee Timothy Schultz won a $29 million lottery jackpot in 1999, he decided to hold a press conference. Lottery officials told him it would help him avoid being “hounded by media" since state law required his name to be disclosed anyway.

But the then-21-year-old soon felt the consequences of his overnight fame.

He felt like a “deer in headlights,” and his life immediately changed: Strangers reg

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