That prize remains the world’s largest lottery prize ever awarded on a single ticket, according to Mega Millions.
In 2018, a person who chose to remain anonymous won $1.537 billion in South Carolina. The jackpot was the second-largest prize in the history of Mega Millions. “I’d be better if I had the winning ticket,” he said. Gatt said he was “ecstatic” for the winner. He described Novi as a rapidly growing city that had once been a rural outpost of Detroit but was now a hub of car manufacturing that was attracting tech companies like Google. About a quarter of the population of Lonaconing lives below the poverty line, according to census data.Ī spokeswoman for Kroger congratulated the winner in Michigan and the mayor of Novi, Bob Gatt, said the news came a month after the city was named “the second-most innovative city in the country” by Entrepreneur magazine.
The winning ticket was sold at Coney Market, a convenience store that sells subs and pizza in Lonaconing, a town of about 1,200 in Allegany County, which has the most Covid-19 cases per capita in the state. The numbers were picked two days after the numbers were selected for a winning ticket in a $731 million Powerball jackpot, which was sold in Lonaconing, Md., a down-on-its-luck former mining town in the virus-battered northwestern corner of the state. The winning numbers in the Mega Millions lottery were 4, 26, 42, 50 and 60, with a Mega Ball number of 24. The odds of winning the jackpot were 1 in 302,575,350, according to Mega Millions. The final payment would be about $46.7 million after taxes, Mr. It also caught the eye of Madonna, who reached out to Kamen with a song she had written with Stephen Bray to join forces on.If the winner chose an annual payout, the initial payment would be about $11.3 million after taxes, with payments increasing 5 percent every year. The ad led to a huge boost in sales for Levi’s and came forth in a countdown of the 100 greatest ads of all time. Kamen carved out a career for himself when he was just 18 after stripping down to his boxers for the hugely successful Levi’s ad. He said: “R.I.P to the most beautiful and sweetest man Nick Kamen!” Kamen was so charismatic in the Levi’s ad, Madonna reached out to collaborate. Tributes have flooded in for Kamen, real name Ivor Neville Kamen, led by pal Boy George. He also sang with Madonna on the hit “Each Time You Break My Heart” in 1986.
A model who starred in a Levi’s ad and later became Madonna’s protégé has died at 59.Įssex-born Nick Kamen was famed for his 1985 Levis 501 commercial where he stripped off in a launderette to Marvin Gaye’s “Heard It Through The Grapevine.”
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