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CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [81] £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.
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 ever won by a single winning ticket in the history of American lottery. After winning the lottery, he was proximate to a number of crimes, and experienced several personal tragedies. [2]
According to CJR’s analysis, nearly 1,700 Americans have claimed winning tickets of $600 or more at least 50 times in the last seven years, including the country’s most frequent winner, a 79-year-old man from Massachusetts named Clarance W. Jones, who has redeemed more than 10,000 tickets for prizes exceeding $18 million.
If the single winner of the world's largest lottery jackpot takes the lump sum, he or she will owe the IRS a mandatory 24% federal tax withholding of $181.5 million, leaving them with $575.1 ...
A Powerball player in New York has the winning ticket in Saturday's drawing, the game announced Sunday. The player has the option to take either the annuitized prize of $256 million or a lump sum ...
The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was an estimated $355 million with a cash option of $165.1 million for Friday night's drawing, according to the Mega Millions website.
In Win for Life, players chose six numbers from 1 through 42; seven numbers were drawn, including the "Free Ball". Top prize was $1000-per-week; there was a cash option of $1 million (offered when WFL became a Virginia-only game; when WFL began Virginia offered a $520,000 cash option, but the choice was eliminated the following year as neither ...
The following Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots made the Top 10 biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history, as of Nov. 11, 2024, Veterans Day. 10. $1.08 billion Powerball drawing — July 19 ...