The largest lottery winnings

In December 2002, American Jack Whittaker won the lottery $ 314, 9 million. And then his head fell unhappiness. 59-year-old Jack was robbed twice and was arrested twice - for disorderly conduct and driving under the influence. Further more. In the house they found the corpse of the unfortunate millionaire buddy of his granddaughter, who died of a drug overdose. A couple of months for the same reason she died and granddaughter - at the age of 17 years. Finally, he sued the casino in Atlantic City. Due to the fact that he allegedly owes the institution $ 1, 5 million, and checks issued to them for this amount, they were invalid. Millionaire has himself not happy with his win. And his wife said that it was necessary just to break the "lucky" ticket. A resident of the UK, has won the National Lottery jackpot in 18 triple, 9 million pounds, did not show up for the win. A representative of the company Camelot, the lottery organizer, joked: "We keep the champagne on ice, but so far nobody has come to celebrate their victory." The win was the largest triple jackpot in 13-year history of the lottery. Total for this time triple jackpot dropped only four times. The biggest prize in the lottery obtained in the UK amounted to 35 million. In August 2007, Angela Kelly (Angela Kelly) won an international lottery for European EuroMillions 35 million pounds. The biggest prize on EuroMillions was obtained recently neizvestnymzhitelem Spain. On Friday, 25 January, he won 56 million pounds (76 million euros). On Saturday, January 17, 2004 won the jackpot 3.535 million hryvnia resident of Makeyevka. She played on the terminal installed in the grocery store "Central" only 1 hryvnia - that such amount was left in your wallet after a modest purchases. In 2000, two players from Illinois and Michigan won the lottery $ 363 million. The winning ticket had two, and the money was divided equally. It turned out to be one of the lucky one, Larry Ross from the town of Lansing. And, as Larry himself admitted he was not a fan of the lottery. Just one day decided to buy a hot dog for $ 2. Little money with them were not, and the seller did not find a putting hundreds. A little quarreling, a man still found a way out: he went and bought 98 lottery tickets. In November 2004, one Juan Rodriguez won the lottery $ 149 million. Prior to this 49-year-old Rodriguez, an immigrant from Colombia, he worked as a watchman in a parking lot in New York. Money is not enough. Iris wife did not work and ever "nagged" her husband. Finally, when his bank debt reached $ 44 thousand, and remained in his pocket $ 1 a man of desperation bought a lottery ticket. And won! The only "but": in just 10 days after drawing Iris has decided to divorce her husband and take away his half of the jackpot. On the question of the court than her husband did not hit, the woman said: "He could have won and more." Hit 5 of the largest lottery prize: $ 365 million February 18, 2006 this amount fell to American, who purchased his winning ticket at convenience store in Lincoln Nebraska.

$ 314.9 million in December 2002, so the jackpot fell to the lot of another American, who bought his ticket in West Virginia. By the way, the probability of such a prize is 1 in 120, 5 million. $ 290 million in July 2004 won the same amount a resident of Massachusetts. However, the majority of Americans prefer to take the money immediately, but do not stretch their payments for 30 years. In this case, the amount is reduced by almost two-fold. After taxes on winnings is little more than one third of the amount. However, this is a lot of money.

$ 254 million at the end of January this year, they won the 84-year-old retiree from Missouri, a veteran of World War II, James Wilson. He intends to divide the money between relatives. For example, two of his sons already for 50, and both of them are unemployed. $ 230 million in October 2006, this amount "ripped off" resident of the State of Virginia. His ticket he bought at a gas station. By the way, and the administration of the station to implement a ticket, get a $ 25 thousand. From the organizers of the lottery.

Source: kabanik.ru