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I still didn’t believe it when my daughter told me,” Alford said.Īlford said she suspects Curry called her boss to say she wouldn’t be coming in to work because Curry met with lottery officials between 11 a.m. So Curry called her daughter and “between tears of joys and laughter,” the daughter relayed to her mother that she’d won, the lottery president said.Ĭurry told Alford, “I was in a state if disbelief. “(Curry) had the radio on, and the announcer was talking about the Mega ball, which was seven,” Alford said. It will take one to two weeks before Curry will get her check, Alford said.Ĭurry bought her winning ticket in Atlanta at a Gateway Newstand in the lobby of an office building near the city’s Buckhead community the other ticket was sold in San Jose, California, lottery officials said. Curry’s half of the cash option comes to $173,819,742.50, before federal taxes (25%) and Georgia taxes (6%), officials said.Īccording to CNN’s calculation, the payout will net her $119,935,622.32. Two tickets matched the winning numbers in Tuesday night’s $648 million jackpot. She did not appear at the afternoon lottery announcement in Atlanta.Ĭurry bought the ticket at the end of the day Friday and it was a last-minute decision, Alford said.Īlford gave a few details about Curry, saying she is married and had her daughter check online for the winning numbers after a radio announcer mentioned 7 was the Mega ball number. Ira Curry, of Stone Mountain, came to the lottery office with the winning ticket of hand-picked numbers, a mix of family birthdays and the lucky number 7. history and has taken the cash option, which after taxes, will be about $120 million, Georgia Lottery President Debbie Alford said Wednesday. A 56-year-old married woman has won half of the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot in U.S.
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