The winner of final summer season’s $1.08-billion Powerball jackpot has been revealed — and one other prize is up for grabs Saturday.
Yanira Alvarez bought the successful ticket final July from Las Palmitas Mini Market in downtown Los Angeles, in accordance with a California Lottery information launch. The group didn’t launch any particulars about Alvarez’s residence or occupation.
The prize is the third-largest Powerball jackpot in historical past and the seventh-largest U.S. lottery jackpot. Alvarez purchased the ticket that received after 39 attracts went with no winner.
The following Powerball draw is scheduled for Saturday, with an estimated jackpot of $935 million or a money worth of $452.3 million.
Earlier this month, California Lottery revealed the winner of October’s $1.765-billion Powerball. Theodorus Struyck represents a gaggle of people that purchased the successful ticket at Halfway Market in Frazier Park.
The jackpot prizes final 12 months yielded about $197.9 million in funding for public faculties and better training in California, in accordance with the discharge.
“We will’t thank our gamers sufficient for his or her assist in supporting California’s public faculties,” California Lottery Director Harjinder Chima mentioned within the launch.
Alvarez’s win marked the second massive Powerball jackpot received in L.A. County inside a span of a 12 months, after a ticket value $2.04 billion was bought at an Altadena gasoline station in November 2022.
Jackpot winners have the selection of receiving the jackpot in 30 annual funds or a one-time money cost. Alvarez selected the latter, which amounted to $558.1 million earlier than taxes.
