With less than months before its expiration , the holder of the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackWith has surfaced .
The South Carolina Lottery announced Monday that the winner, who elected to remain anonymous, will be given a one-time payment of $878 million dollars – the largest jackpot payout to a single winner ever, the lottery organization said.
The winner is represented by lawyer Jason Kurland, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The winner marvels at how every decision made that day brought the winner to the store, at that very moment, to make the Quick Pick Mega Millions lottery ticket purchase,” the lottery organization said in a news release.
According to The Washington Post, organization said the winner’s good luck was a result of an “simple act of kindness.”
“The winner even allowed a fellow customer to make a Mega Millions lottery ticket purchase in front of the winner while in line at the store,” the organization said.
The ticket was purchased Oct. 23, at the KC Mart in Simpsonsville, a town of about 22,000 people outside of Greenville. The store will receive a $50,000 bonus; the state will get $61 million in income taxes from the winner, the lottery organization said.
“We are delighted that the winner is a South Carolinian and has come forward to claim this remarkable prize,” Hogan Brown, the commission’s executive director, said in a statement. “We respect the winner’s decision to remain anonymous, and we will honor the winner’s wishes.”
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