Florida winner of $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot steps forward to claim prize

Comment #19

Instyle — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:25:53 GMT

and obviously had a couple of bottles of psychedelic water before she went through the door.

Comment #18

lottoman626 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:49:25 GMT

she was paid to go in there to get in front of the media, to get free publicity, she is a walking advertisement for the

product.

Comment #17

American Indian — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:25:32 GMT

A GREED (Lol)

Notice she covered majority of her face

Comment #16

Instyle — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 11:23:34 GMT

Me too, so many people in need. Tooo much money for one person or family. I will keep my big mouth shut and give to organizations, in need. It will happen

Comment #15

lottoman626 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:25:46 GMT

that was fake news some folks would do anything for attention.

Comment #14

lottoman626 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:17:34 GMT

I think you are right there is no way Florida lottery mistakenly entered cash option for so many winners and forgot to update the actual winner's info after the 90 day time frame. I think once the winner claims the prize as a Trust or LLC it stays that way. *interested people would have to go digging into the members of the Trust and LLC.

Comment #13

Artist77 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:07:25 GMT

I think she was just a drama queen and wanted the attention.

Comment #12

quicksloth35 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 05:02:17 GMT

I dunno about y'all, but I am still curious about the PB winning ticket supposedly linked to this woman:

Time will tell, I suppose.

Comment #11

Stack47 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:58:14 GMT

My guess is that they took the cash option too.

Makes sense because if the winner wanted payments, they could have waited longer to validate their ticket. It takes two to three weeks after the drawing to collect so that should not be the problem. When to validate a jackpot winning ticket is not one size fits all and all the more reason for as much anonymity as any lottery can apply.

Comment #10

golfer1960 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:32:28 GMT

Hmm....let's see:

$783,000,000M x 5.46% in a 1yr treasury would yield approximately $42,768,180 per year income.

Not bad

Comment #9

TheGameGrl — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:22:02 GMT

Appreciate CDanaT informative post on Florida statutes..interesting!

A published PDF on the official website IS technically the ownership of that site..ergo, it's their written summation.

All in good time the persons' public name maybe shared. One of the rare times that I hope it's a group.

Comment #8

American Indian — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:19:16 GMT

YES

Thank You... Nobody else needs to know anything else about the winner.

IF== BIG IF they wanted everyone to know they would be like dude in CA and keep the whole world up to date with every Penny he spends and every move he makes! Suppose 15 minutes of fame is Not enough for some...

Personally I wouldn't want anyone to know no matter how much we won.

If ever we won a lot we would only keep enough to live on and enjoy time together. We don't need much, the rest we would make... [ More ]

Comment #7

Tony Numbers — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:24:44 GMT

It's no wonder people choose to claim anonymously. Still others keep prying to reveal the winner. Then they decide how the winners money should be spent. We only need to know where the ticket was sold, and that it was claimed.

Comment #6

CDanaT — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:13:19 GMT

I was a bit curious on the 90 day anonymity FL law and if the state posted name automatically or it had to be done through a FOI records request. So using LP 's anonymity posting it lead me to the FL lottery sight stating, Beginning May 25, 2022, the names of Lottery winners claiming prizes of $250,000 or greater will be temporarily exempt from public disclosure (pursuant to F.S.24.1051(3)(a)) for 90 days from the date the prize is claimed, unless otherwise waived by the winner

I went to th... [ More ]

Comment #5

PrisonerSix — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:40:32 GMT

I wish all journalists were that responsible.

Comment #4

GiveFive — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:07:22 GMT

My guess is that they took the cash option too.

You're right - there are any number of unconfirmed possibilities as to what actually happened to write anything other than what they officially said. G5

Comment #3

CDanaT — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:55:45 GMT

And we know that the majority of journalists today are always so factually responsible and trustworthy.

Congrats to the winner(s) of this massive sum. Enjoy your next 80 some odd days of anonymity... I hope you/your group are well prepared for the onslaught that is coming your way.

Comment #2

Todd — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:37:43 GMT

As stated in the article, a Florida Lottery official directly confirmed that they are not sharing the info at this time. That PDF may totally be correct, and the Florida Lottery may have mistakenly published it, but that cannot be confirmed without official word from the lottery. It is also possible that the PDF is incorrect.

That said, of course they almost certainly took the cash option. But as a journalist to write that as fact in a published article without confirmation would be irrespon... [ More ]

Comment #1

GiveFive — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:22:00 GMT

I'm confused. The news article above says that the Florida Lottery did not reveal whether or not the winner chose the lump sum cash option or the annuity. Yet their website has a Jackpot Winners and Retailer Information Report on it showing the winner took the cash option. Here's a link to it.

https://www.flalottery.com/exptkt/MegaMillions_Jackpot_Retailer_Info.pdf

What's up with that?

In addition to claiming anonymously I hope they hired a lawyer to claim it for them via a trust or... [ More ]

Florida winner of $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot steps forward to claim prize

Lottery Post — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:22:29 GMT

Sole winner of behemoth jackpot comes forward just before the cash option claims deadline

By Kate Northrop

The winner of the third-largest lottery jackpot in history, the $1.6 billion Mega Millions prize won by one single ticket in Florida last month, has stepped forward to claim the prize.

Officials revealed on Wednesday that the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot won in August has been claimed, albeit anonymously.

In Florida, lottery winners have 60 days from the draw date to c... [ More ]