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The fortunate one that landed an over $1.2 billion Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot in California has been revealed.
The California Lottery stated a girl named Rosemary Casarotti was the holder of the Mega Hundreds of thousands ticket that received the $1.269 billion grand prize from Dec. 27’s drawing, touchdown her the fifth-largest jackpot within the lottery’s historical past.
Of the 2 choices that Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot winners have to assert their prize, Casarotti took the one-time money payout and pocketed $571 million in winnings, per the California Lottery.
Mega Hundreds of thousands lottery tickets displayed on Aug. 1, 2023, in San Anselmo, California. (Picture Illustration by Justin Sullivan / Getty Photographs)
The opposite possibility, which she didn’t select, was receiving the windfall as an annuity over 29 years.
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The California Lottery stated Casarotti wished to “remain as private as possible” and “declined to participate” within the press convention revealing her id.
“I had the pleasure of speaking with Rosemary by phone following her win, and I can tell you with certainty how grateful she is and how happy she is to have won this money and to have supported public schools,” California Lottery spokesperson Carolyn Becker stated in an announcement.
The state lottery “was able to raise an estimated $89.5 million for public schools” because of the $1.2 billion Mega Hundreds of thousands win, in keeping with California Lottery Director Harjinder Shergill-Chima.
The over $1.2 billion jackpot that she received from a ticket purchased at a Sunshine Meals and Gasoline Circle Okay location in Cottonwood, California, had grown to its eye-popping dimension over the course of 31 drawings, in keeping with Mega Hundreds of thousands.
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The profitable numbers had been 3, 7, 37, 49 and 55 for the white balls and 6 for the gold Mega Ball, the lottery stated on the time of the late December jackpot win.
A person holds Mega Hundreds of thousands lottery tickets on July 29, 2022, in New York Metropolis. (John Smith/VIEWpress / Getty Photographs)
Together with Casarotti’s $1.269 billion grand prize on Dec. 27, Mega Hundreds of thousands solely noticed two billion-dollar jackpots scored by gamers in 2024. The opposite supersized jackpot, value $1.128 billion, was received in New Jersey in late March of final yr, in keeping with Mega Hundreds of thousands.
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There have been additionally two nine-figure grand prize wins in 2024.
Mega Hundreds of thousands’ largest-ever jackpot win was a whopping $1.602 billion. The drawing for that huge windfall came about in August 2023.
