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Florida Man Who Won $41M Has Been Identified

Author Babs

Congratulations to Darren Martini of Cape Coral! He just claimed his $41M prize from the Florida Lottery. I use to live In Cape Coral and im very happy for my old neighbor.

Martini purchased a Florida Lotto Quick Pick Ticket form a Publix located on  Pine Island Road. The Publix location will receive a $100K commission for selling the winning ticket. Martini chose to receive his winnings as a one time lump-sum payment of $24,559,932.33.

The drawing was held back in December and Martini just came forward. He was either getting his affairs in order, or he just found the ticket. Whatever he was doing, it does not matter because he came forward before the ticket expired. Could you imagine misplacing a $41M winning lottery ticket?

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Florida Resident Purchased A Winning Lottery Ticket Worth $1.586B

Congratulations to all of the Lottery winners. No matter how big or small, it’s still a blessing to just win something. Even though I’m envious, I get so excited when someone goes to the store and spends a little but wins millions or even billions. Im no stranger to buying lottery tickets. I frequently buy them from the Publix right here in St. Petersburg. I also played the lottery a lot when I lived in Fort Myers.

My mom would ask me, “what games do you like to play?”  I like to play the scratch off tickets.  I also will buy a Mega Millions or Powerball ticket when the jackpot gets high. There has been a list created of the 10 Biggest U.S. Lottery Jackpots, and one of the tickets was sold right here in Florida. All of the people who won these jackpots have made history! Below is the list of states where the Top 5 Lottery Jackpot winning tickets were sold.

  • California

    This is the Largest Lottery Jackpot to date. It was a Powerball ticket that was sold in November of 2022. The city it was purchased in was Altadena! The ticket was worth $2.04B. According to Lottery officials, the ticket holder was the first lottery billionaire in the state of California.

  • Florida

    This was the second biggest Jackpot and it was split in three ways. This Powerball prize was $1.586B. It was sold in 2016 and there were three matching tickets.  The Melbourne Beach resident who won in Florida also had to split the prize with a California and Tennessee resident. Still not a bad deal though. With a three way split they would each get $528M.

  • South Carolina

     This was the third largest jackpot and it was a Mega Millions Prize worth $1.54B. The ticket was drawn in October of 2018.  The winner is from South Carolina but did not come forward until a year later. They chose to take their winnings in a one-time lump sum of $877,784,124 .

  • Maine

     A person in Maine won the 4th largest Jackpot in U.S. history.  The jackpot was estimated at $1.35 billion dollars. The drawing was on Jan 13th of this year and it was sold in Lebanon, Maine.

  • Illinois

    One lucky person in Illinois bought the winning Mega Millions ticket in July of 2022. They came forward after several weeks but their identity is unknown.  They purchased the 5th largest jackpot prize totaling $1.337B. 

Shandra “Babs” Littleton is a member of the WiLD Squad. She’s originally from Detroit but has spent most of her “grown-up” life in Fort Myers, Florida where she graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University. Babs loves to write about everything from Tampa concerts, to WiLD murders that happened in Florida, and her favorite businesses.

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