California Woman Clinches $1.08 Billion Powerball Jackpot: A Historic Third Largest Win

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The world of Powerball jackpot has ushered in yet another billionaire. Following a protracted statutory requirement period, Yanira Alvarez, a California native, has been officially named as the recipient of the monumental $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot she secured last year. This win is a third in line from the mammoth record ever clinched in Powerball’s history.

The stage for Alvarez’s breakthrough was set at none other than the vibrant downtown Los Angeles’s Las Palmitas Mini Market where she had bought her fortune’s ticket. This more than a year after history had been inked by Californian native, Edwin Castro, who had walked away with a staggering 2.04 billion jackpot, the largest in the world.


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Alvarez’s disclosure comes hot on the heels of an unmasking of a group of Californians who had brushed gold with a separate lotto jackpot amounting to more than a billion dollars. Picked propitiously by Alvarez herself, her winning numbers were 7, 10, 11, 13, 24, and the crimsoned Powerball 24.

Under California law, jackpot winners are given two choices. They can either claim their winnings spread out over three decades in annual doses or pocket the cash equivalent of the prize upfront. Alvarez chose to walk the latter path, which got her a tidy sum of $558.1m before the IRS got its due cut.

A woman of a few words, Alvarez declined further comments regarding her win. Her triumph concluded a listless dry spell for Powerball that had stretched across a morose 39-draw period sans a jackpot winner.

Interestingly, Alvarez’s win is the first spectacle in a two-part billion-dollar lottery fiesta, entirely presented by California, as per the state lottery. Last October saw the second part of the epic, where a group of people claimed a $1.76 billion jackpot via a ticket bought at the unassuming Midway Market located in the Frazier Park of California.

Theodorus Struyck was recently identified by the California lottery in March as the spokesperson for subsequent group winners. Crowning the historic back-to-back bounty, the California Lottery stated that it wasn’t only individuals who benefited but also the state’s public education sector. The bulk of the proceedings were set aside for bettering K-12 and higher education, which, last year, translated to an additional $197.9 million in the coffer of educational funding.

Castro, the winner of the 2022 draw, was recorded to have snapped up a vast five-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion nestled in Los Angleles’s Hollywood Hills. He paid an eye-popping $25.5 million after opting for an immediate cash payment of his $997.6 million winning.

The Powerball jackpot now stands at an awe-inspiring $935 million, ranking as the fifth-largest in the history of the lottery game. The next Powerball drawing has been scheduled for Saturday, with an estimated cash value of $452.3 million.

Powerball tickets, sold all over in 45 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, are enticingly priced at $2 per play. However, the chances of striking gold are slim, penciled at a skyscraping 1 in 292.2 million. Despite these odds, the game’s allure is undeniable, especially given that a person from New Jersey recently overcame the odds to win a $1.13 billion jackpot in the Mega Millions multistate lottery.

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Melinda Cochrane is a poet, teacher and fiction author. She is also the editor and publisher of The Inspired Heart, a collection of international writers. Melinda also runs a publishing company, Melinda Cochrane International books for aspiring writers, based out Montreal, Quebec. Her publication credits include: The art of poetic inquiry, (Backalong Books), a novella, Desperate Freedom, (Brian Wrixon Books Canada), and 2 collections of poetry; The Man Who Stole Father’s Boat, (Backalong Books), and She’s an Island Poet, Desperate Freedom was on the bestseller's list for one week, and The Man Who Stole Father’s Boat is one of hope and encouragement for all those living in the social welfare system. She’s been published in online magazines such as, (regular writer for) ‘Life as a Human’, and Shannon Grissom’s magazine.