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“Lottery winners try to be fair and give money to each person, but it usually ends up in broken relationships and a lot of lost money.” Jeffrey Dampier was one such example. He won $20 million ...
Known for. Winning the Powerball in December 2002. Andrew Jackson Whittaker Jr. (October 9, 1947 – June 27, 2020) [ 1] was an American businessman in the construction industry. He was noted for being the winner of a 2002 lottery jackpot. His win of US$314.9 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery was, at the time, the largest jackpot ...
Taxing mega lottery wins. The IRS requires all lottery agencies to withhold 24% of lottery winnings over $5,000 for federal taxes. On Jeanne’s $7.5 million purse, this amounts to tax of $1.8 ...
Evelyn Basehore. Evelyn Basehore beat one in 15 trillion odds when she won $3.9 million and $1.4 million within five months, playing the Pick Six lottery in 1985. She gambled much of it away ...
A ticket bought in Ohio for the June 2, 2010, Powerball drawing became its first potential Powerball jackpot winner; it is the first time a lottery selling either Mega Millions or Powerball (but not both) on January 31, 2010 sold a jackpot-winning ticket for its newer game after the cross-selling expansion date. The ticket was worth $261.6 ...
CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland 's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [ 75] £35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016. €38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij ( State Lottery) in May 2013.
In 1994, he was arrested for grand theft, but the charges were soon dropped when he agreed to pay restitution. In 2001, his marriage to a 77-year-old widow, a black woman who had recently hit the Ohio Lottery jackpot for $6,000,000, was annulled by a judge in Delaware, Ohio.
An Akron man won $50,000 a year for 20 years on a scratch-off lottery ticket, a $1,000,000 prize, the Ohio Lottery announced. ... so his jackpot shrunk to $500,000. After state and federal taxes ...