The Biggest Jackpot in History - $1 500 000 000!!!

Sensational news! January,13 was held quite an ordinary American lottery “Powerball”, still the jackpot this time has exceeded all the expectations. It was up to $1.5 billion!

The previous 19 circulations, which started May 7, 2025 did not reveal the winner and the final prize has grown from $40 million to a record size. The lucky winner of the $1.5 billion was finally decided. The Californian skateboarder Erik Bragg became a Rich. His winning combination consisted of five random numbers (1-69) and one number of the magic ball (from 1 to 26).

Lottery ticket, as Bragg admits, was purchased in a suburb of Los Angeles, Chino Hills, California, for only $2. It is worth noting that the lottery organisers needed the whole day to determine the winner! Here is the comment on the social networks which the lucky new billionaire left for the friends: "My God! I really won the Powerball! $1.5 billion is now mine. I also publish this as an irrefutable fact for those who doubted in me".

To get the biggest for the United States and perhaps for the whole world prize, the guy has to make a very difficult choice. According to the American tax laws the monetary gain may be reduced to $930 million if it is taken immediately. Though the lottery win will remain unchanged only if Erik agrees to the gradual payment of equal parts during 29 years. There is another incredible fact: the chance of determining the winning combination of six numbers on the ticket was 1 to 292 million.

Earlier here were people who have got big Powerball lottery fortunes as well. Let's find out the amount of cash prizes and how winners decided to manage them.

In 2008, a young black handyman D. Vargas received a $35 million, after a while he established sports channel Wrestlicious.

For a former felon D. Edwards, the year 2001 became a lucky one-way ticket. He won $41 million. But the money had not brought him happiness, because he wasted every cent during 5 years and ended his days in a hospice.

2005 brought B. Duke $220 million. Being a smart guy, he did not spend the money right away, and organised a team of economists, who wisely invested in securities.

The winning of $314 million did not bring happiness to E. Whittaker in 2002. Immediately, a host of envious and pursuers appeared after him and after a few years his two daughters died from drugs.

Now we are going to monitor the disposition of the new money billionaire and soon we’ll tell you about his plans.