10 People Who Became Millionaires Overnight!

From a man who brought photograph prints at a garage sale worth over 200 million dollars to a woman who published her own book for the Kindle and made a fortune. We count 10 people who became millionaires overnight.

So Let’s Take A Look At 10 People Who Became Millionaires Overnight!

10. Kevin Lewis

A Cincinnati casino gave away two $1 Million grand prizes after accidentally giving the initial grand prize to someone with the same name as the intended winner. Both men were about the same age with the same name living in the same area. After the mistake had been discovered the casino decided just to let the wrong Kevin Lewis keep the money and awarded the intended winner a giant check as well. Both Kevin Lewis’s became instant millionaires.

9. Oscar and Loreen Stohler

A modest couple from a Western North Dakota farm Oscar and Lorraine Stohler were literally sitting on millions before crude oil was discovered on their land. Before the Great Recession, many farmers in North Dakota earned millions by owning rich oil land. The stohlers who were in their 80s were skeptical at first even though they became a lucky millionaire couple, the scholars continue to drive their old pickup truck stating they like their old stuff too much to replace it.

8. Amanda Hocking

Amanda Hocking beginning as a desperate broke writer Amanda Hocking made her unpublished novel available on Kindle to make a few hundred dollars. She had no idea she’d make over $20000 in six months 2.5 million dollars in 20 months and in the process changed publishing forever; no book agent, publishing house, sales force, marketing manager, book shop, just her.

7. Marv Doniger

After a medical physician failed to diagnose his cancer, an angry Marv Doniger decided to sue. Doniger was a management consultant to Fortune companies until he was forced to retire as a result of his unrecognized disease. The doctor thought is a simple case of kidney stones, but Doniger’s problems persisted. He spent three months in UCLA hospital had his bladder removed, and when he was released he was unable to walk. Although he regained his ability to walk with the hell for the cane and leg braces. He was never able to resume his career the lawsuit went on for a few years and two trials, but resulted in donnager
winning 3.3 million just like that.

6. Jonathan Duhamel

Although Jonathan Duhamel always dreamed of becoming an all Star hockey player, he instead became a millionaire after trying his hand at poker. Duhamel won near 9 million dollar prize in the main event at the 2010 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. He was only 23 years old at the time and he is the first Canadian to ever take the title.

5. Markus Persson 

As soon as Markus Persson launched his game Minecraft, he became an instant millionaire. The game was lucky enough to have devoted following even before its official launch due to a very popular tech demo. So as soon as it launched the game took off. Persson has since sold the company to Microsoft making even more off the game than he ever imagined. Today he is estimated to be worth 1.5 billion dollars according to the Bloomberg billionaires index.

4. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss

As we know from the movie ‘The Social Network’ there was some controversy about whether or not Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for the popular social media site Facebook from fellow students and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The real life Winklevoss brothers won a 20 million dollar settlement from Zuckerberg over the dispute they then took part of their settlement money to invest 11 million dollars on the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Although bitcoins price collapse shortly after, today the price is nearly four times what they originally paid twins are now said to hold 1% of all Bitcoins in existence.

3. Rick Norsigian

Californian painter Rick Norsigian had no idea that when he purchased some photographic prints at a garage sale for he would end up a millionaire. It turned out the collection of glass negatives he bought belonged to a famous nature photographer Ansel Adams worth around 200 million dollars.

2. David Karp

Everyone has heard of tumblr, right? The website that allows its users to post just about any and be in charge of their own blog. Tumblr creator David Karp may have started the website with his own savings and no investments in, but as soon as the website took off Karp made millions instantly with brands like MTV advertising on the site. The 29-year old now has a net worth of over 200 million dollars.

1. David Gehle

Some overnight millionaires has surprisingly frugal with their new riches. Nebraskan David Gehle one three hundred and sixty five million dollars from the lottery in 2006. Aside from purchasing a car and a snowblower, Gehle exercised and preached caution in spending. He essentially lived the same life after winning the lottery, with the exception of helping neighbors during the winter.