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84 year old Florida grandmother wins $590 million on US lottery

News Team, 06/06/2013

An 84-year-old grandmother of four from Florida has won the largest unshared jackpot in US lottery history - a prize of $590m (£383m).

Former Maine resident Gloria MacKenzie has opted to take a single lump sum of about $370m rather than the full amount spread over 30 years.

In a statement Ms MacKenzie said she bought the ticket in a supermarket after another buyer "was kind enough to let me go ahead in line". Ms MacKenzie retired to the Florida town of Zephyrhills more than a decade ago with her husband, Ralph. He died in 2005.

The $370m is reduced to about...


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