An 81-year-old woman from Newport won last month's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot, sleeping with the winning ticket in her Bible until coming forward to claim the sixth-largest U.S. prize on Tuesday, a family representative said.
"I wanted to say that I am very happy and I'm very proud and this will make my family very happy. We are truly blessed, thank you," Louise White said at a news conference, as reported by CBS affiliate WPRI Providence.
Her attorneys said she was a regular lottery player who bought the winning ticket at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport where she had stopped for rainbow sherbet. The ticket is being claimed in the name of the Rainbow Sherbet Trust.
Instead of 30 annual payments made over 29 years, White chose to take the lump sum payment of $210 million and she will end up paying roughly $12.6 million in state taxes and $73.5 million, leaving her with a whopping $123.9 million.
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