Woman claims to be $1 billion Powerball winner
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2023
- The lucky winner of the $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot may have been spotted Thursday morning at the downtown Los Angeles store where the ticket was sold. Chris Wolfe reports for KTLA 5 News at 6, July 20, 2023.
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#1 First thing she did wrong was make it publicly known.
Names are disclosed publicly in 90 days after the ticket is claimed. Yeah, hire security which is the first thing the other billion dollar winner did in L.A.
Its actually required, along with making it known what store/place you bought the ticket at.
she can move to other country.. no problem
Maybe a mistake. The only thing required is the publication of the winners name and where the ticket was bought. The winner does not have to have her face posted or published. Soon many will be able to put “2 and 2” together. Her name and face. Now she will need a security detail when she goes to the lottery office to claim her ticket.
She’s too dumb to realize that she won’t get anywhere near that when she gets taxed “for the second time” a year later.
She did exactly what you aren’t supposed to do when you win.
the actual winners i have heard about don't tell anyone, or they get a lawyer for confidential advice.
Ignorance
Y’all just jealous🤣
@@sw1360 NGL I do wish it was me. But it doesn’t change the fact that it was foolish to go out alone like that and identify yourself to the public and make yourself a target. She won’t get that money for months. She needs to be planning an escape so she can figure out what she’s going to do with it without the vultures swarming.
She wasn’t the real winner bro she just wanted to be on tv
You stay anonymous until after you claim the money officially. You don't receive the money immediately, people with bad intentions will probably be looking for her today. Hopefully she stays safe, but doing this in public was a very bad decision.
I was just gonna say the same thing. People are gonna be stalking her now, hey I think she's my long lost sister. 😅
im sure she is going to donate it all to BLM to help the black community.
Exactly
My thoughts exactly.
In LA, that's one of the last places I will want to show my face if I had not claimed the ticket yet.
So let me get this straight California has the 5th largest economy in the world by GDP and we have to sell lotto tickets to raise money for our schools?
40 years of lottery.......look at the results
Because all the democrat politicians have used all that money on pet projects, failing policies and personal gain.
I HEAR YA!
@@williamkirby8092 I HEAR YA!
sounds bad for sure but how much actually helps the schools? little to none I bet.
Never announce you’re the winner. You will need to leave the country now.
Or different state, like Florida chances are no one will recognize her
There will be relatives coming out the wood work! GET READY!
Everybody wi be pounding on her door...whoa....
It ain't that serious.
Guys she was acting like she was the winner and hugging some random girl in the store, people around this Skidrow area will do weird stuff like this when there are news cameras around.. she was making a stupid scene like she was the winner.
They went from showing her as the winner, to they won't know until the winner comes forward...
What the media is not talking about is that the last $1-Bil Lottery jackpot (Edwin Castro) was won less than 20 miles from this store. What are the chances of two $1-Bil jackpot winners that close together and in such a short period of time? 🤔
Rigged????🤔🤔🤔
That is correct. Usually big sums of money won from the lottery are won from purchasing in affluent areas.
Major rigging
Making the rich state richer
The chances are 100% if you realize it's just used for money laundering or payoffs.
Why always California win when the price is over 1 billion?
Good question...
The lottery is rigged to let certain states have the big winners..
Because it’s a highly taxed state and people are leaving the state in droves a lot of homeless etc so the winner will get a big tax bill before they even touch the money and if they still reside there after then in a 5 to 10 yrs the winner will be broke because of the high tax bill charged by the state
Most populated state.
It’s always California that wins the jackpots. I’m calling it Rigged.
Let us pray for her soul. So idiotic of her.
What's idiotic? Giving her identification away?
@@PrinceAli-1
Hush liberal
@@PrinceAli-1If you have to have this explained to you, then you wouldn't understand.
She didn’t give anything away. It was obvious that she didn’t want to talk to anyone and they were shoving cameras in her face. They were probably lingering around the shop waiting for the winner to appear
@@PrinceAli-1No, "praying to a soul" is.
Last night, she was worrying about her next month apartment rent, but this morning she woke up and heard the big news that told her she became the richest person in her town. This is how life goes. No predictions!!
im sure she is going to donate it all to BLM to help the black community.
@@loreicmaster your point?
@@loreicmasterjealousy is not a good look on you! 😂
@@loreicmaster It won't help the black community if she donates to THAT Marxist organization. They are already under investigation for mis-appropriation of the funds. The so-called leaders have been spending the money on multi-million dollar homes for themselves. There is no evidence of their helping ANYONE but themselves (You can look it up). I know you are being sarcastic, but you can also be better informed.
Blessed beyond🎉🎉🎉🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
RUN WOMAN RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
AMEN TO THAT!
She was acting like she was the winner… This is Skidrow area people there do weird stuff for attention on news cameras
"OK, ma'am. The jackpot was 1.08 Billion dollars. After taking the lump sum, Federal taxes, State taxes, various fees.... here's your $20."
Right !!!!
😂😂😂
@Black, I read she will end up with 500 and something million
Hey! she is my long lost twin sister. Maybe she will see in her heart to help out flesh and blood. Ok Never mind I'm 90% European, white, and ten years older.
This is how I Identify.
Wow look how much taxes is taken out wow that’s crazy
Be careful girl
All that money for schools that are failing miserably..
What I don't get is if the lotto sales already generate money for public schools why does the government take more than half of the winnings as tax, aren't public schools funded by the government, I know there's a lot more than schools for taxes to be used but there's a lot of other tax generators, anyway here in European lottery the winnings aren't taxed just the sales of the tickets.
@@evaroscill1534Because lottery winnings are classified as a type of income in the US, thus they are taxed as such
No one would be that foolish to show their face. 🥺
You can barely see it. You'll forget it and won't think about her again.
@@malkialovesI’ll remember.
👀😳I would NOT TELL A SOUL. Until I’ve put my affairs in order with my Attorneys.
I pray that woman is protected and safe from everyone that knows her and now knows her.
@pearl, I wouldnt tell anyone till after I moved to the country
@@paulettebarrow9791eah I’d buy a modest house on hundreds of acres out in the country and live peacefully lol
To all the dumb dumbs out there she is not the winner
She’s not the winner
@@AuditingNYCnExtChapter Thanks.
Everyone who got a piece of this, stay low. Don't be flashy, don't brag. Stay humble.
Help others who are humbled.
NO ONE ELSE WON
@@Mr_Furrz2 but the store owners got a flat mill from the winning and everyone will KNOW that!!
Amen to that comment @landomilkhoney 💯%!!!!
@@landomilknhoney After taxes and splitting what's left, they can each now buy a compact car.
@@earthangel2522 good for them🤷🏽♀️
Florida claims the same thing about helping students but they don't tell you that they take the same amount out of the annual budget because of slimy lawyers paperwork. She should have kept quiet but in a deprived neighborhood she is probably just happy to be moving.
Now she can afford to get out of Commiefornia.
Fla has the highest inflation too! Plus gun violence. Sorry u have DeSantis who couldve put that private jet $ into schools also.
Hope u prepare for hurricanes that r coming. They will be massive. Good luck!
@@spicyirwin5835 What good little democrat cheerleader that you are.
Think she's lying. You don't just show up when you've won a billion dollars all alone, it's way to dangerous
It just tells u America is not rich it's all propaganda another countries our country failed the Americans
Smh. She shocked herself into stupid. Congratulations, go away and be safe ❤.
She probably didn’t even win it lol
@ifit, Basically yea
I don't think she won! I think that she probably saw the cameras and got excited, because she once stopped at the store and bought some chips and a soda!
Need to fix the truly awful Streets..in California.
Your funny!😆
Congratulations to the winner!❤
They said she lied
false winner
Loving all the advice on how to claim the lottery the right way. Appreciate it guys. When all of us win we'll use it.
I’m going to use that advice I want to be incognito I don’t want nobody to know who I am not even my family
Don’t take the advice. Just tell everyone you won
Lol Good point
That’s hysterical!
THE MONEY GOES TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, pfFFFFFF, yea right, what happened to all the real estate tax money that supposed to go to schools, millions and millions go to schools every year, isn't that way more than enough money , this is one of so many reasons why so many Americans are sick and tired and end up leaving to other countries.
She did a wrong move by revealing herself and not staying anonymous 💀
It's a dream for me to win the lotto. I came so close last year but congrats to her and never let the world know you won for your own safety!
Yeah me too! I was off by 1, on each numer and the powerball.
Oh yeah that means nothing.
@@johnhedtke7571 - What is a numer? Is that like a hummer? Because I could sure use one right about now.
@@blake_lively_matters6553 Whatever it is, I'm sure there is a Transvestite near you that will gladly help you out.
I remember my pops played the lottery he used a fortune cookie he had from the Chinese restaurant and he was off by 2 numbers from 300 million dollars 😩
I hope you win one day.
The lottery corp knows the exact time the winning ticket was printed. Combine that with store security camera footage and you have a pretty good chance to know if it was this woman who purchased the winning ticket, or if it's some other person.
Lottery got 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
I'm beginning to think it's a scheme to up lift da white generation 🤔🧐🤷 lottery got 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
Lmfaoooo she just embarrassed her whole family
Was it the actual winner who happens to be so stupid as to show her face to the public especially in LA?? Or, was it someone who just wanted her 5 minutes of fame? Why would the winner go to the store to show her face? She has to go to the California Lottery Commission to claim the winnings and not to the store where she bought the ticket. And her emotional joy... where were the tears of happiness?
I go with question #2. I saw this happen before, only it was a man who did this. It wasn't a smart move either way. There are people who know her. She is now unsafe.
Exactly! Why would you go publicly with no ticket in hand go out and put on a show crying “ I can’t honey I’m scared!”… if this is the kind of logic she uses and she is the winner it will be gone quickly.
@@AllBrightColorsIt turned out, she wasn't the winner. The store owner's granddaughter said the actual winner hasn't come forward yet and the store owner himself said he didn't remember her at all.
@@earthangel2522she’s not the winner
@@AuditingNYCnExtChapter According to a news article that popped up on my news feed, some MAN won the recent Powerball. 🤣 That Woman had the audacious audacity to act like SHE was the Winner! 🤣😵💫
I don’t know what to believe. Congratulations to whoever the winner is - you are living the dream now! 🎉
She's not the winner who does this publicly. 🤦🏾♀️
She is the winner
You underestimate the poor judgements of people.
@@bonete8780 where is the winning ticket?
Yay! Congratulations!! So happy for her!!!!
You obviously regarded just as her
@@elenaefremova7463 fair point. Ty.
Cover her Lord🙏
you cannot serve god and money
How much you wanna bet she is NOT the winner and trying to set herself up to sue the real winner with a fraudulent lawsuit ? She came forward way too quickly.
Is that even a thing? Lol
@@tianap6211 the news came out a day or two ago that she admitted shes not the winner aand just wanted some attention. Yes its a real thing. Remember that latina guy in California who recently won the billion dollar lottery, some other guy was trying to sue him saying he stole the ticket. A lot of people are nuts
Suspicious!!!
Forty five states participate in this lottery and the majority of Powerballs top prizes have come from Los Angeles County over the last two years, something is definitely not right!
Exactly….. two 1 billion dollars wining tickets from the same county in 8 months… 🙃🙃
@@Miami2k2484 Four of the top Powerball prizes and two of the second top prizes for Mega Millions hit this week, all within 80 miles of LA County.
California is top five most populous states. Could this have something to do with it ?
@@taniamorrison90More than seventy percent of tickets are sold outside of California, but nearly eighty percent of recent winners are from the same city. I hope someone starts asking questions.
She's in Los Angeles she can Sure Act 🎬
She gonna tell the winner they gotta give her the winnings as reparations.
She looks like she faking it.
the goverment takes 500 million!! What a frickin rip man! 1.8 billion and she gets 500 million! Absurd!
Hella facts
But everyone in the country gets a new toilet seat.
Not only do they take that, but if she ever in her life received any assistance from welfare they will take what it owed to them.. not sure if all states do that but it happens.
Thomas I see ur math skills are truly not working…it wasn’t ..1.8 Billion …it is 1,080,000,000.00 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴💩💩💩💩💩🤔🤔🤔🤔
if i was up +500 million i wouldnt give a damn how much the gov took
I bet she's seen a toddler running down the highway..
She needs to go directly to the Lottery office after she signs it. Congratulations to the winner!
Lottery is rigged
I like to see this happen in a humble, struggling neighborhood. ❤
PRAISE God to a very poor black man amen,👏🏿👏🏿🙋🤗
The well off are the majority… Rarely do the struggling community wins.
Dam this store is just a few streets from my home😮😢
BLESS THE STORE OWNER 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATS TO THE WINNER
The owner seem to be good people. Happy for all of them.
I’m so happy for the owners. ❤
Two power ball billion winners from same City?? There must be a game behind
Turns out that women lied about being the winner
On top of your taxes they have to do a lottery to pay for schools
What a scam
I wouldnt tell anyone I won...but there would be signs...and every friend and family member I have would never have to work a day in their life again.
She should stayed anonymous till she got all her ducks in a row
Ain't no way she's the winner
One of the biggest hooked on humanity is that they take care of students. Our taxes take care of schools too. Our schools are probably one of the shittiest institutions on earth. They can’t even get a bus route together in Jefferson County, Kentucky kids getting off the bus at 10 PM with her pants soiled, crying her eyes out wondering if they’re ever going to see their parents again etc. I’ve been to some of these inner-city public schools and I’m baffled absolutely baffled. Half of them don’t have any musical instruments. Food is disgusting. The schools are in disrepair. Meanwhile, superintendents are giving themselves $50,000 raises a year. What a lie!!!
Congratulations lady
You get around 134 million of it, which I'll take that any day.
She needs to go into hiding. Now.
Lol if we have to be always hiding when we win it better they stop this whole thing if it is a fear.
@@leoniehendrickson2530 or stop making winners expose their identity to thousands of strangers, that part is still very fishy
Hope $ brings her blessings instead of misfortune & grifters! She should put in a trust & stay safe!💜🙏💜
Oh don't worry she will definitly listen to you!🙃
Congratulations to her but she made the biggest mistake of her life going back to that store. She should've been scared before she showed herself to the world. Hoping she's safe and happy.
Get yours to a police station and don't talk to anyone other than them.
You won't be able to cash the ticket fished signed it, but a Billion dollars will turn off a lot of minds.
I am glad she is Young and Healthy, she can enjoy it, Good Luck the Rest of the Way. Send us a postcard..... 🍁
Young??? unless i'm seeing wrong she must be hitting 50
I would get spit roasted by Dan Schneider for that kind of money
What a creepy and disturbing comment! 😱😵💫😬😳
Ahh she sounds like happy humble lady. If she won, good for her. Best of luck and plenty of love and blessings to her and her family ❤
I’m scared for this woman, and it shows she’s not that smart AT ALL!! You never do this! She now can’t even move out of her place safely! I pray she finds wise counsel who will provide her great, safety, long term advice!!
Congrats to the winner! Next stop tonight and adding to the good news... the Mega Millions jackpot went up this morning... now a whopping $1.1 BILLION. And... I am sharing it! 🍀😀
Good she can pay a lot of the reparations- to others
1.08 Billions dollars! 560 millions after tax, this is 100,000 dollars a month for the next 460 years. Crazzy
I doubt the instant payout is 506 million BEFORE taxes. It's not a 560 million prize! So that must have been AFTER taxes
I'll believe when I see the check in her hand...
I think we have another Carlee Russell on our hands. We need proof she's the winner 🏆
Knock it tf off. This women is just foolish to come forward with her winnings so soon. She obviously went back to the same store that she brought the ticket from. But I wouldn’t have been all on the news. She didn’t even get the money yet now she will have to leave because anything can happen to her!
No we don’t! 🤷🏽♀️
@@tammyslade1375 we don't 🤥 check the news for updates. Like I said another Carlee Russell 💣
This is the type of people that would come out claiming that Reggie stole the ticket. 😂
If that money ACTUALLY went to public schools we'd have some top notch state of the art schools. But we don't do we.
I am so happy for the store owners!
Congratulations to this woman.
This woman is lying
@@willowwale2000how do you know she is lying????
@@leejacks7033the winners still hasn’t claimed it so it’s not her
fake win just wanted attention
For putting on a show? She didn’t present a winning ticket to the lottery commission . She just put on a show.
This is the one time I wish RUclips allowed GIFs 😂
She deserved an Oscar.
Or she misunderstood the winning numbers , if that the case , I hope she is ok , cause the actual winner is not her.
She was crying because she didn't win 😂
Unfortunately, most people who win the lottery spend it all or die within a few years due to poor judgement.
The lotto is a scam They tax you
We need to ban on this toxic addiction 🤬 I have store and people spend 50% money for lottery, wakeup ppl
"7 THINGS TO DO IF YOU WIN THE LOTTERY": That's the title of a RUclips video she should have consulted before running around the store with her FACE in the cameras (or was it the cameras in her face?). It's too late for her. Her FACE is now out there for every "relative" to see and come looking for their "cut."
But why oh why do I think she is NOT the actual winner. I didn't hear her SAY she won, just that she was "so scared." I would be too.
Why would she let everyone know? SMH
That's how you know they cheat on the powerball!
I don’t know if it is worth buying it anymore. I play it each time when the amount gets large but as always I can’t even win $4 on it. 😢
She'll be beseiged by long-lost family members, so-called friends, and scammers... also, will be bankrupt within 2.5 years... but I hope not!
Just so y'all know- if you DO win, some states won't allow you to anonymously report your winnings. California is included.
There are ways around that. There are attorneys who specialize in helping big lottery winner remain anonymous. The trick is to not put your personal name on the back of the ticket. The state lottery commission HAS to announce whatever the name is on the signature.
The attorney helps you FIRST form an LLC (Limited Liability Corporation). You sign the name of the LLC on the back of the ticket.
The press NOW has no individual person's name to announce or interview. The Winner's NAME is never announced in the press. Hence, NO INTERVIEW, NO PICTURES. There are YT videos that explain this.
People shouldnt remain anonymous...Thats how corruption flourishes
She is not the winner. Sources say. She’s a threat for lying
When do they announce the winner?
When it can be verified by the lottery commission.
Another latest winner in cali? no one see this is a scam??!
Definitely a scam
She was lying for attention. She didn’t win anything.
I wouldn’t tell a soul. Not even my own mother. I’d claim the prize and just leave for 3 months to Idaho or something.
Idaho! 🤣 What a random state to choose! 🤣
I am exceedingly And truly happy for that person and the store owners! May they be good and deserving and DO GOOD WITH THEIR BLESSINGS!
if 80% of all the money for the tickets sold goes to the state, plus 50% tax from the winning ticket, then all together the state keeps 90% ... wow... what rip off...
@@VardenMusicjust be happy for the woman that's all we don't need all them explanations for how much goes here and how much goes there I know why you're saying that because you're in your feelings
@@VardenMusicEven after paying the state and the taxes, she still going to be richer thsn you are 😂😂😂 jealous.
She turned out to be lying
I am so glad sister. I was praying it was someone who was homeless for a great blessing and someone with a big heart to help those homeless people in that area. Of course I wanted it to be me 😢. But I am happy 😊 still.
We don't know whether or not she is either homeless or someone with a big heart. We don't even know whether she is actually the winner. But SOMEONE won it is all we know. But I am glad you can be glad for someone even if it isn't you. For sure, YOU have a big heart. 😇
You can play Powerball in 45 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. If you don't find it odd that the Powerball has only had six billion dollar jackpots, two of which were consecutively won in California along with a third winner previously, you are not paying attention.
The January billion dollar jackpot for California experienced a security breach just before the drawing with the drawing being postponed and surprise a Californian won. Now this billion dollar win makes it 50% of the billion dollar jackpot winners living in California. What are the odds? Not likely leaving the other 47 states and territories footing the bill.
So let's see another fake investigation as announced by the state's lottery representative. Save your money as it is beginning to look like the game is rigged.
beginning? People are just too dumb to see the obvious
Blessing stay safe. ❤🙏
Congrats to her but I'm getting suspicious that California keeps winning the big jackpots
Exactly…Two 1 billion dollar winners from the same county in California in 8 months???🤔🤔🤔 RIGGED
The lottery has been proven to be rigged. The joke is, “I know it’s rigged, I just hope it’s rigged for me.”
The numbers aren’t chosen at random. There is a computer that chooses the numbers.
Wow. A billion dollars.. does that now mean that she’s a genius? .. cuz that’s what I heard. Billionaires are geniuses
Perhaps it was the "Good ol' Days" when those Mafia Syndicates only "skimmed" 25% off the top?
Anybody got her address?
Just wait for a neighbour to come forward.
Congratulations sister, now claim your money and move out of town. ❤