US | Amanda Clayton Lotto Winner Who Stayed on Food Stamps Dies Drug overdose suspected in death of Amanda Clayton By Polly Davis Doig Posted Sep 30, 2012 7:37 AM CDT Copied In this March 8, 2012 file photo, Amanda Clayton holds her $1 million lottery check. Clayton, who continued to get food stamps after her win, has died of a suspected overdose. (AP Photo/courtesy Michigan Lottery via Detroit Free Press) Amanda Clayton, the Michigan woman who inspired mass derision and a fraud conviction for continuing to take public assistance after winning $1 million on a state lottery-run game show, has died. She was found dead yesterday, reports the Free Press, and a drug overdose is suspected. No further details on her death were available. Clayton was earlier this year sentenced to nine months' probation and ordered to repay some $5,500 in food stamps after it was discovered she had failed to inform public assistance authorities of her September 2011 win. "I feel that it's OK because, I mean, I have no income, and I have bills to pay," she said at the time she was charged. "I have two houses." Michigan, apparently unconvinced, responded with a law requiring lotto officials to report winners to DHS. Read These Next RFK Jr. suggests antidepressants to blame after shooting. Details trickle out on 2 more victims of the Minneapolis shooting. Isolated tribe members show up in an unexpected place. The Air Force has changed its tune on Ashli Babbitt. Report an error