“It all seems unreal”: a pensioner from New York won $ 476 million in the lottery (3 photos)

But there is a nuance - taxes "ate" most of the money.





$476 million - a simple American grandfather from New York "took" into the lottery. This the biggest win since the Mega Millions lottery started in 2002.

71-year-old Johnny Taylor periodically bought tickets and now luck smiled at him:

When I told my wife about the win, she simply did not believe me. But even now it all seems unrealistic.



Lucky man's face hidden

The pensioner has already cashed out the winnings - after paying all taxes, he had “only” 157 million left in his hands. It turns out that on payments he took 319 million, but the man does not complain. Money he plans to spend on a house and a car. Where to put the rest - not yet decided.

In Russia, there are also lucky ones who received a winning ticket. One of them went to Rustem and Nadezhda Mukhametzyanov, back in way back in 2001.





Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova

They received $1 million. They took the win in their own way: for several years they simply drank money away, then invested in real estate. In 2006, Nadezhda died, and her husband and matured sons squandered the rest of the winnings:

I shop in expensive stores, I can afford buy smoked sausage and selected potatoes from the market. More money for a couple of years should be enough. And I don't expect more. Feel, I didn’t have long left, - Rustem said, Rustem said after the death of his wife.