Category: Lottery Winners

Celebrities Who Have Won the Lottery

When the s**t hits the fan and jackpots start booming into the hundreds of millions, celebrities love to start getting in on the action. One of the most recent Mega Millions jackpots - that reached into the $500 million range - drove celebrities like Rob Dyrdek, Nick Jonas and baseball superstar Matt Kemp to drop hundreds of dollars on tickets. For us average joes, it can be a little...

Have You Ever Wondered How it Feels to Win the Lottery?!

Everybody’s dreaming. It's not a secret. And most of us (lottery addicts) dreams about winning the lottery. Have you ever wondered how it feels? Have you ever imagined the tremendous moment of win? What would be your reaction? What would you do? Jumping? Screaming? Crying? Laughing? Keep repeating "OMG!" million and million times? Let's pretend you just won $40 million. Would you perform a...

5 Business Ideas That All Lottery Winners Should Invest In

Winning the lottery is obviously going to mean a tremendous change in the way we think about money. We’ll start thinking about the crazy and extravagant cars we can buy or all the different places we can go on vacation. The reason so many lottery winners struggle so horribly after they hit the jackpot is that these thoughts are almost uncontrollable. Hell, I have uncontrollable thoughts...

Lottery Winners and Astrology – What Does Your Zodiac Sign Tell?

From Astrology Nerd to Millionaire! Ok, so this might not really be the secret to the millions. But, it could be, and you’d deeply regret not listening to this advice if it helped someone else hit it big. As lottery addicts, we’re always looking for ways to improve our excitement level towards the game. We’re also always looking for that secret that can put us over the top and we always...

Two winners split $648 million Mega Millions jackpot

The wait finally came to an end, as two lottery players split the second largest Mega Millions jackpot earlier this week, with each of them claim a net amount of $120 million. This is the final amount that results from splitting the $648 million Mega Millions jackpot equally and subtracting both the federal and state taxes. The identity of the second winner is yet to be revealed as the player...

Cautionary tales of lottery losers

Most lottery players spend their entire lives chasing that big jackpot and in the vast majority of cases they only get to settle for lower tier prizes. Those who are lucky enough to match all but one number shouldn't think twice and celebrate, instead of wondering what their lives would've been had they matched all the winning numbers. On the other hand, there are those who got so lucky that...

5 Common Traits of Lottery Winners

The great thing about lottery winners is that they are regular people with no special abilities, who got the chance to change their life for the better virtually overnight. Many of those who hope to enjoy the same benefits are thinking if there are any common traits that lottery winners have, so that they know if they fit the profile. Here are five common qualities that these people...

Lottery winner faces criminal charges for fraud

Some people seem to never be satisfied with what they've got and greed pushes them to actions that don't make any sense. Surprising as it might sound, a former lottery winner who took home a jackpot worth $1 million after winning the main prize in the “Million Dollar Cash Fever” scratch-off game is now accused of fraud. She took advantage of her position of caregiver and the fact that she...

New Jersey workers win a third of Powerball lottery jackpot

The Powerball lottery jackpot worth $448 million was split between three winners, two of them being from New Jersey. Lottery officials confirm the fact that one of the New Jersey winners is in fact a syndicate of 16 county workers employed in the Ocean County Vehicle Maintenance. Each of them will receive an amount of $8 million, which translates into slightly above $4 million after taxes....

New leads in the Hot Lotto jackpot scandal

In early 2012, a 77 years old lawyer that goes by the name of Crawford Shaw stepped forward to claim the Hot Lotto jackpot. That was the starting point for a scandal that rocked the Iowa lottery and one and a half years later it is still uncertain who the person who actually bought the ticket was. From the very beginning, the officials had their fair share of doubts about the fact that Mr....