Gloria MacKenzie
/ Ken Silver
GLORIA MACKENZIE, 84, WON FLORIDA'S $590 MILLION POWERBALL IN 2013.
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Newspaper and internet media photos showed a composed, slightly smiling older woman being shepherded from the lottery office. She looked fairly relaxed for someone who decided to receive her winnings in a lump-sum payment... an astounding $370.8 million before taxes.
Powerball lottery officials say there were three winning tickets for Wednesday night's $564 million drawing - making the February 2015 draw the third-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
The winners - who have not yet come forward - will join a long list of people that Powerball has made very wealthy over the years, say CNN Money.
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$590.5M Powerball winner Gloria MacKenzie leaves the Crazy Egg restaurant in Florida alongside her son Scott and his partner Jerry Cruz.The jackpot figure has risen to a whopping $317 million without being won.
In a story just come to hand, we discovered that the sweet old woman who won the $590 million Powerball last year was not who she seemed. And it took a 10-year-old to uncover her act.
Mindy Crandell and 10-year-old daughter Mallory.
It seems that before her win, 84-year-old Gloria C. Mackenzie was at the same lottery store as mother-of-two Mindy Crandell and her daughter. Then suddenly...
Green Island’s new $250,000 spray park at the Paine Street Park, New York was built with a donation from State Lottery winners John and Linda Kutey in honor of their parents. The Kuteys donated $200,000 to construct the spray park. John Kutey was one of seven employees who cashed in a $319 million winning Mega Millions ticket in 2011. His share was $28.7 million.Photo: Will Waldron/Times Union
Here’s a collection of lottery commercials that are so clever they have to be seen to be believed.