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The documentary has its roots in a question that co-director and co-executive producer Wayne Powers had while being asked for some money by a homeless person: what would happen if I gave him a million dollars (later dropped to 100,000) and the free will to do what he wanted with it?
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I happened to win, and took a crisp new 100-dollar bill to church to pay off a debt to a friend, but also to do a little bragging about how I had won it. I was waiting for Jim’s jaw to drop, but ...
He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer who won $1.12 million on another U.S. quiz show, Twenty One. [2] On the November 19, 1999, episode of Millionaire, Carpenter proceeded to advance to the million-dollar question without using any lifelines. He then used his ...
The reason is simple: A million dollars may seem like a lot of money, but it is not enough for someone to join the idle rich. And taxes take a huge chunk out of the windfall, as much as 50%. Being ...
Maybe the flaw was intentional, to encourage players to spend lots of money on lottery tickets, since the state took a cut of each ticket sold, about 35 cents on the dollar. (In 2003, the year that Jerry began playing, the state lottery would sell $1.68 billion in tickets and send $586 million of that revenue into a state fund to support K-12 ...
He was not a regular lottery player but bought $100 in tickets because the jackpot was so high. He played the lottery only when it reached $100 million. [3] The jackpot that Christmas Day (before taxes) was a $314.9 million annuity or $170.5 million cash. Whittaker chose the cash option of $113,386,407, after taxes. [5] [6] [7]
Jobo placed the money with a third party to guarantee payment if Zembic won the bet. For a few months in 1996 he didn't follow through with the wager but in the fall of 1996 Zembic lost a large amount of money playing the stock market and sought out a surgeon to go through with the procedure in order to win the $100,000 prize to cover his losses.