Winning $1 billion Mega Millions ticket sold at Kroger in Novi
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A lucky lottery player can now call themselves a billionaire.
The winning ticket for the third-largest lottery prize in history, the $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot, was bought at Kroger in Novi (47650 Grand River.) The winning ticket matched all of the numbers drawn: 04-26-42-50-60 – and the Mega Ball 24.
The Michigan Lottery won’t know the identity of the winner until they contact the lottery.
The winner has two options to collect the record prize. The first is an escalating annuity that offers an initial payment, then annual payments for 29 years. Or they may select a one-time cash payment of about $739 million, receiving about $530 million after tax withholdings.
Until last Friday’s big win, the largest lottery prize ever won by a Michigan player was $337 million Powerball jackpot. Donald Lawson, of Lapeer, won that jackpot on August 15, 2012. The largest Mega Millions prize ever won in the state was won on April 22, 2005 when a Port Huron couple won $208 million.
Last week’s Mega Millions jackpot is the third-largest lottery jackpot ever won in the United States. The national and world record for a lottery jackpot is $1.568 billion. That Powerball jackpot was won on January 13, 2016 and split between three winning tickets (California, Florida and Tennessee.)
