We finally know who took home the lottery money from the ticket purchased in Chico California!
Well they were sort of revealed, but not really, and I couldn’t be happier for these very wealthy folks that I will probably never meet.
Marvin and Mae Acosta have claimed their prize of $528.8 million — their 1/3 share of the $1.6 billion dollar Powerball jackpot that was given away nearly 6 months ago.
They purchased their ticket in Chino Hills, California, and chose the cash option of $327.8 million. They would only have received the $528.8 million if they’d chosen the annuity, which is paid out over 30 years.
Unlike the other two winners, who called THE TODAY SHOW or scheduled press conferences to tell the world they won, the Acostas refused media requests but issued a statement expressing how grateful they were.
“We have committed nearly all of this new resource to a Trust and to charities that are important to us.”
“While we are very grateful for the wonderful wishes and encouragement we’ve received, it is not our intention to become public figures, and we ask for and appreciate privacy going forward.”
Finally!!!! Some SMART people won!
Lottery officials always advise people to have a plan before claiming their prizes, and it seems not enough people really work through how much this windfall will change their lives. This time, the winners took their time.
“They read our Winner’s Handbook and then assembled a team of legal and financial advisors to help them make the most of this windfall and prepare them for their new life as Lottery winners,” California Lottery Director Hugo Lopez said.
Bravo rich people! Keep your photos out of the public eyes, and run away to an undisclosed location so all those “cousins” stop dropping in. Of course some information about the Acostas has leaked out.
From NJHerald.com
Property records show a couple with the same names purchased a 5-bedroom home for $475,000 last fall in Eastvale, a Southern California community about 10 miles from the 7-Eleven where the winning ticket was purchased. A neighbor said the couple who lived there had two children and moved out last Thursday, a day before the prize was claimed.
The Tennessee winners were a small-town couple, John and Lisa Robinson of Munford, who also took the lump sum payment. They said they didn’t intend to stop working — John as a warehouse supervisor and Lisa at a dermatologist’s office — and would stay in their one-story house. The Robinsons go down in history as the craziest lottery winners ever because they used the world’s dumbest lawyer, who had them toting around an unsigned winning ticket across state lines to be on TV instead of to the local lottery office for confirmation.
The Florida winners, David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith of Melbourne Beach, took the lump sum as well. Kaltschmidt said he would retire from his job as a manufacturing engineer but wouldn’t otherwise change his day-to-day life. Smith, who identified herself as a homemaker, said she was concerned that winning might make her less friendly because of all the worrying.
