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$1.08 Billion Powerball Winner Revealed 8 Months After Drawing

Powerball lottery tickets are displayed at the New Hampshire General Store along Route 93 South, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Hooksett, N.H. The upcoming $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot is the world's fifth-largest lottery prize due to higher interest rates, long odds, fewer ticket sales per drawing, and luck. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

They don’t call it the Golden State for nothing.

For the second time this month, a billion-dollar Powerball winner was revealed in California while the lottery’s current jackpot prize inches closer to the coveted 10-figure value.

Yanira Alvarez bought the winning $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot ticket at Las Palmitas Mini Market in Los Angeles for the July 19, 2023 drawing.

Alvarez’s winning numbers were 7, 10, 11, 13, 24, and the red Powerball 24.

Her monstrous win last July ended a 39-draw jackpot run for Powerball and was the first of two back-to-back billion-dollar winning tickets sold in California, the state’s lottery said, referring to Theodorus “Theo” Struyck’s historic win.

Click here to read the full story in the New York Post. 

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