MURDERED FOR HIS MILLIONS

Abraham Shakespeare’s luck ran out when he hit a $30 million lottery. He paid the ultimate price for his winning ticket.

After the former garbage collector struck the jackpot in 2006, hangers-on and “bloodsuckers” made his life miserable.

A female con artist, posing as an author, cozied up to him and drained the last of his cash, say officials. Then Abraham disappeared.

The woman – Dee Dee Moore – insisted Abraham went into hiding to escape his tormentors. But cops suspected foul play.

The bizarre story began in 2006 when Abraham, 43, who lived with his mother in Lakeland, Fla., struck it rich after buying a Florida lottery ticket at a convenience store.

Instead of being paid in annual installments that would have totaled $30 million, he opted for a lump-sum payment of $16.9 million. He bought a Nissan Altima, a Rolex watch from a pawn shop, a $1 million home, and talked about starting a foundation for the poor.

“I don’t let material things run me,” he said at the time.

Then his troubles began. A former co-worker sued him – accusing Abraham of stealing the winning ticket from him. A jury ruled the ticket was Abraham’s.

“The bloodsuckers didn’t wait,” said his mother Elizabeth. “They hounded him to death. He paid for funerals for folks, lent money to friends starting so-called businesses and even gave $1 million to a truck-driver friend. “He just couldn’t say no.”

After Abraham bought his fashionable home in January 2007, he was approached by Moore, a blonde in her 30s with a shady past.

She served a year’s probation after she was charged with falsely reporting that she was carjacked and raped in 2001, said authorities.

She concocted the scheme so her insurance company would reimburse her for her SUV, which she claimed had been stolen.

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