With more than $ 877 million (€ 773.57 million), the US lottery „Mega Millions“ has paid the largest single win in the history of the world’s lottery history. The winner had come in yesterday, four months after winning his lucky numbers, the South Carolina regional lottery company said.
Unlike in the US usual, the winner was initially not identified. The highest single win in the lottery history so far had come in the US state of Massachusetts in August 2017, when she won $ 758.7 million in the lottery „Powerball“.
Long restraint
The now fortunate lucky man had already won the Jackpot, which was filled to the tune of more than $ 1.5 billion in October of last year – and spent a lot of time filling up his account. After the US system, he has two options for payment – and decided for the variant to collect the sum at once. As a result, he has to accept a substantial discount. To get the full amount, the winner would have had to get involved in a 29-year installment plan.
In the current case, only the state of South Carolina, where the successful tipper is resident, will receive around $ 61 million in income tax, the lottery company said.
Domestic maximum profit so far: 14.9 million euros
The biggest lottery prize to date was shared by three players in the USA in January 2016. At $ 1.586 billion (1.47 billion euros) at that time the jackpot of the „Powerball“ lottery had risen.
