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The winner of California’s record-breaking lottery prize has purchased a luxurious home in the same Hollywood Hills neighborhood as Jimmy Kimmel and Ariana Grande. TMZ reports Edwin Castro, who won the $2.04 billion Powerball lottery ticket at a Mobil gas station in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, bought a 13,578-square-foot house. The purchase comes just a […]
The second-largest Mega Millions jackpot in history took place Friday night, with the winning ticket bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines, Illinois, a 20-mile drive northwest of downtown Chicago. CNN reports a single ticket sold in the Chicago suburb for the whole $1.337 billion. Friday night’s winning numbers were 13, 36, 45, […]
A man allegedly killed his wife and daughter in Oklahoma just nine months after his wife won $2 million in the lottery in California. John Donato, 42, his wife Tiffani Hill, 31, and their daughter Leanne were all found with gunshot wounds to the head at their Calera, Oklahoma home on July 30, according to KXII. The husband […]
A Springfield, Massachusetts woman who accidentally threw away a $1 million lottery ticket was able to collect her winnings after the store owners were kind enough to track her down, People reports. Per the Massachusetts State Lottery, Lea Rose Fiega won $1 million in the state’s “Diamond Millions” instant game on March 30, a pre-tax cash prize she […]
You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than winning the lottery, but lightning struck twice for one Michigan man who accidentally purchased two lotto tickets with the same numbers. Dearborn Heights, Michigan resident Samir Mazahem walked away with $2 million after mistakenly purchasing an extra ticket. The 56-year-old said he was saving […]
A Colorado man who persevered through 30 years of rejection finally had his…compulsion (is that the right word?) pay off when he won a pair of $1 million Powerball jackpots (a.k.a. what you get if you match 5 numbers without getting the added Powerball) on the same day. That man’s name is “Joe B” and he […]
History has been made down in South Carolina thanks to a belated claim from a presumably stoked Mega Millions winner. The winner, who has understandably chosen to not reveal their identity, has opted for the one time payment option of $877,784,124 after bagging the winning numbers for a $1.5 billion jackpot in October. The fateful ticket […]
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