$1M Lottery Winner Who Was Charged With Welfare Fraud Found Dead In Bed

A Lincoln Park woman who was cut off from state food assistance after it was revealed that she had won $1,000,000 in the Michigan Lottery has been found dead, reports Julie Banovic of WXYZ-TV.

Amanda Clayton's body was found in Ecorse Saturday morning.

Friends found the troubled lottery winner lying on the bed holding her one and a half year old daughter.

When she went to a home in Ecorse on Friday night to see her kids, 25-year-old Amanda Clayton appeared confused said her friend’s boyfriend.

Police said she died of an apparent drug overdose.