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Subscribe to RSSArizona Lottery officials announce a winning Powerball ticket has been claimed for the record-breaking $587.5 million jackpot. The jackpot is being split with previously announced winners in Missouri.
Updated at 6:30 p.m. ET: The other winner of the $587.5 million Powerball jackpot has come forward with the winning ticket, The Arizona Lottery announced Friday.
At a press conference, the lottery said the winner was a male in his 30s who lives in Fountain Hills, Ariz., with his wife. The couple have lived there for about a year, having moved from Pennsylvania, the lottery said.
The lottery did not disclose the winner's name because he requested anonymity, but under the lottery rules in Arizona his name will eventually become public.
The jackpot was the largest in Powerball history, with a cash option of $384.7 million before taxes.
It is being shared with Mark and Cindy Hill, who claimed their prize on Nov. 30. The Missouri couple took the lump sum payment of $136.5 million after taxes.
The Arizona winner also elected to take the cash option, the lottery stated. It did not have specifics on how the winner planned to invest or spend the money.
The jackpot was the second-largest in U.S. history and set off a nationwide buying frenzy. At one point, tickets were selling at nearly 130,000 a minute.
Before the Nov. 28 drawing, the jackpot had rolled over 16 consecutive times without anyone hitting the jackpot. In a Mega Millions drawing in March, three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot, the largest lottery payout of all time.
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The Arizona Lottery held a press conference Friday in Phoenix to announce that an Arizonan had won half of the Powerball jackpot.
Earlier, some media speculated that a man in Maryland might have won the other half of the Powerball jackpot.
That's because a Virginia Department of Transportation worker told clerks at an Exxon station in Upper Marlboro, Md. that he'd bought the winning ticket on a trip to Arizona, NBCWashington.com reported. He was pictured in surveillance video excitedly showing something to people in the station, and store clerks claimed they saw what looked like a winning ticket, according to NBCWashington.com. However, the man reportedly continued to show up at work and avoided news cameras.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Cindy Hill, the matriarch of the Missouri family who half the record $580 million Powerball jackpot, and her children talk about their new life as millionaires.
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whomever it is will probably be looking to change his or her name after they anounce that persons identity. what a stupid law...
I agree. I would not even want to tell my family LOL
Not all states have that lottery law..some states you don't have to revile your name to the public.
From the Article:
Hi, I'm from the Government, I'm here to help (myself to your money, that we did not earn).
David what's your point??? All know about the other winners who split the JP. This winner is the other half of the JP.
That, "stupid" law keeps the government honest. The movie Total Recall shows what can happen when there is no accountability.
No law should be written based on what happens in a movie.
Mike- I believe David was saying that the taxes were an outrageous amount. I agree that they are too high, but the numbers are misleading. The $384.7 Million was the cash option amount of the total jackpot. The Hills received $136.5M out of $192.35M, which works out to 29% in taxes. Not outrageous, but (my opinion) too high.
You are one naive individual Big Tes. The movie provides an example of what can happen when there is no accountability.
Was it the guy they had on video from Maryland?
How much do you think that guy in the powerball suit makes. I'd like that job. Next to Vanna's.
I think it is great that someone else won - said nobody ever.
Seriously, you are just rubbing it in now. Let them hopefully enjoy their good fortune, and let us get back to trying to make ends meet. I have been losing at this damn game for almost 30 friggin' years, and I feel stupid enough already.
Thanks!
Congrats to these new "job creators". Oh, and to the lady from Missouri, God had nothing to do with it.
The winner's identity should be kept secret in all cases. Let them enjoy their good luck instead of being harassed by "friends", family, scam artists ...................................
then how do we know the lottery (gov) doled the $$$ out?
Big Tes - everything comes with a price. Nothing is as annoying as those Hollywood "celebrities" and other entertainers who makes millions of dollars for doing so little work, but then complain when their privacy is violated. No one can have it all without a cost.
I would tell my family. My wife and I would take our adult children along to collect, share and share alike, so they could "inherit early".
Again, another person in the NE claimed to have a winning lottery ticket... Remember a few months ago the female over there claimed she had the winning ticket... What is wrong with these media starved people ??? Knew that was BS...
Better get it off-shore cause Obuma gonna be calling with his hand out !
Another sore GOP loser. They're everywhere!
What a tool...there would be no country without a central government, which you have to fund from the people and the business allowed within its limits. If you don't like it or can't live with it, then go someplace you think works better.
Don't try to change a democratic republic to something you want, even if you don't understand either.
You're probably just as useless in life, as you are on this blog. I say that because none of your comment makes sense, first, who is Obuma, and second, the President has nothing to do with it being taxed WAY before the winner actually gets it.
Remember, taxes, and death were here WAY before President Obama was born, so it's definitely not his fault.
wyoboy: but you don't need apowerful central government. The original design was to have 50 DIFFERENT states because no one central government can possibly represent all of its citizens. But states and local governments sure can. If you LIMIT what the central government can do, the states will provide the rest.
No GOP, Tea Party, conservative, Libertarian, etc... wants NO central government. They simply want a more efficient one and one that represents their viewpoints closer. This is better accomplsihed at the state level not the federal level.
Imagine a country where Vermont could be 100% socialist and Wyoming 100% free market, Utah a religious state and New York athiest based, etc etc, etc. Then everybody could and would find a perfect place to live. With the Feds simply providing for a common defense. Maybe someone will write a Constitution that states that, wait, it has already been done...As long as each state has a republican form of government (so the internal systems can be changed) any economic system would be legal within a state.
Someday you and your ilk will learn to accept you lost. Until then, feel free to provide the humor that you do with your terribly uneducated comments. I enjoy them - it's good for my imagination, thinking what kind of person you must be to come up with the fecal matter you're spewing onto these forums.
Oh well eh? Mitt 2016! No...wait....
I hope the winner invests wisely. You know, buys himself/herself a seat in Congress. They'll be set for life.
If I won that kind of money, who needs to invest? Already set for life.
That is already more money than I'd be able to spend. Granted I'd take care of the family but for the most part, I'd travel and enjoy myself! Yes, me.....
I think the guy in Maryland was just looking for 15 seconds of fame. You don't need to check the ticket at a vendor, then ask everyone what they thought. Good way to get bopped in the head.
Might have printed a ticket with the same numbers but a different date.
No lottery winners name should ever be made public unless they do it themselves.
All will agree with that..but its the jerks in the state government who make state laws...the ones we elect sometimes.
yeah, we should trust the lottery to pay the winners......Duh.
they'd NEVER cheat the "people."
While I absolutely agree with you, the argument I hear is that these kind of laws are in place to make sure that family members, relatives, close friends, etc. of lottery officials don't claim these prizes through some fraudulent means. Highly unlikely, but that seems to be the basis for the identification laws.
i hereby lawfully claim half of this money. thanks.
Pussy
Both winners want the cash. They will be broke in 5 years, and will not remember a thing.
Feds get over $100 million off the top.
I would take the annuity while I get my massive deductions together.
Where was I hearing about a dancing horse that the people are paying for?
They should buy some of those.
You always take the cash now. First you have to live long enough to collect it all. Worse the way our government is going the tax rates will be 75% like france has before you collect it all. Get the money and move out of the country as fast as you can before they think they should tax your bank account balance next.
The government is getting $248.5 million dollars. Who would opt for annual installments anyway especially when they are presented with an unstable economy and living in an already bankrupted country. You get the money safe in your pocket and get the hell out because you don't know what the government will do next. They always have the "right" to tax you more.
"...They will be broke in 5 years, and will not remember a thing..."
You watch too many TV shows that show the exceptions, not the rule.
BTW---there were 58 or 60 folks who won $1,000,000 each the same drawing. Will they all be broke?
does not want to be identified!! illegal alien?? I going by you contry
haha He just could be.
I'd grab the cash and head for Monaco or Switzerland...............
Maybe now she can afford to loose that weight!
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I don't see why people bitch about the taxes on this. This is more money than either family would have seen in their lifetimes. 136 million is quite a bit of money, invest 75 % and buy some rental properties and use 25% to do what you want.
I was just in Fountain Hills the end of October. Damn!!
I know I would not want my name made public if I won. However, there are some benefits one woman hid her winnings and then filed for divorce (http://articles.latimes.com/1999/nov/17/news/mn-34537). No doubt others that were deadbeats in one way or another have also hid their new found wealth and so while I don't like it I understand the law.
If she hid it when she won it, it would still be considered community property and her divorced husband would still have a legal claim to it if he found out about it.
Two big lotto winners become two former Democrats.......
Yeah.. instant Republican: just add money and watch the selfishness and greed blossom. Not to mention the arrogant, better-than-tho attitude.
LOL I used to say that would be my first act upon winning the lottery. Screw D*sney, I'm becoming a Republican.
as always, every story becomes a political debate - how about looking at it this way - each of the winners of this record payout paid two (that is $2) for the winning numbers - i think, even after taxes, $138 million is a pretty good return - so what if the state and federal government takes their cut? - it is the money that the millions of people that played the game that are paying the taxes - not the winners - that money will help pay for schools, roads, bridges and other needed services and i doubt that the winners will suffer much - the irs didn't say play this game or go to jail - it was a voluntary bit of gambling