While it’s a common belief that money can’t buy happiness, Rachel Lapierre is proving otherwise by giving all of her money away.
The 55-year-old former beauty queen from Quebec won the Gagnant Lifetime Lottery in 2013, which means that she now receives a $1,000 stipend every week – and she is going to keep receiving those payments for the rest of her life.
Instead of spending her fortune on lavish possessions, however, Lapierre uses all of her money on running a charity and helping the less fortunate.
“Money is money. When you’re born you don’t have anything,” Lapierre told the BBC. “And when you go, you go with nothing but your memories. You go with what you did here in life.”
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Fame and money is not strange to Lapierre, either…
