After Tathi Schultz, the employee of the Iowa, won the Grand Prix of 29 million dollars in 1999, he decided to hold a press conference. The lottery officials told him that he would help him avoid “chasing the media” because the state law requires the disclosure of his name anyway.
But the 21 -year -old, however, felt the consequences of night fame.
He felt like “deer in the headlights”, and his life changed immediately: strangers asked him regularly or “rubbing it for good luck.” Shultz now said in his forties, he will think of an unidentified stay today if he is given the option.
“Not only Tim is Tim, I was the winner of the lottery,” Schultz said.
Saturday fee is $ 1.8 billion
Winning the grand prize of $ 1.8 billion on Saturday is the second largest in history, but even if there is a winner, you do not expect to know who they are or how they plan to use their profits-unlike when Schultz won, most of the winners can remain unknown.
In many states in recent decades, the legislators have been illegal to protect the winners of targeting by criminals and people who are asking for money. Even in nearly twenty countries where names are revealed, the winners are advised to avoid general audit.
Kurt Panouses Lawyer Haser Likes like decades winners, including some hundreds of millions.
Panouses is recommended for its customers to use intermediaries wherever possible and demand their prizes on crowded news days, such as election day, to avoid coverage.
Panouses regularly conducts inquiries from investors, fraudsters and people in need, and they are all trying to reach its customers.
“It is difficult for people who have no experience or life perspective to say no,” said Bangis.
The lottery has a long history of general disclosure
It was not always that way. For centuries, the general detection of those with winning tickets was an essential part of ensuring that people trust the lottery.
The history of the lottery in America to the eighteenth century of the last century, when governments used it, now, to raise money. Jonathan de Cohen, author of the book “Vergings of the Dollar and Dream: The Awitting Government in Modern America”, said that they were born from “the distinguished American desire for government services without paying taxes in exchange for them.”
Early, they were more like withdrawals. The winners will be announced in exhibitions with audience ticket holders.
In the 1980s, in some states, Cohen said, people will buy tickets to win the grand prize games with personal drawings. About 20 people will stand on stage and one will win. Their emotional personal stories helped fuel the popularity of the lottery.
Cohen said: “Here is this housewife, here is this orphan.” “The person who wins the lottery is sitting there, and of course it begins to cry immediately.”
He said that the large multi -state lottery such as PowerBall and Mega Millions, which rolling a prize for money when no one wins and generated the annoying grand prize, disrupted this approach. He reduced the human element but allowed greater prizes.
Nine states allow all winners of the lottery to stay completely unknown to all the lottery. Ten states of the winners allow the share to remain unknown to win over a certain amount, ranging from $ 10,000 in Minnesota to $ 10 million in Virginia.
In some states where there is no unveiling of the individual winners, people can still claim unknown prizes through private boxes.
Lawyer Mark K. Harder won the grand prize of $ 842.4 million on behalf of Michigan’s couple in 2024.
In addition to security concerns, Harder said that the couple wanted to be seen “in the way it was always seen.”
Harder said that the family also rented a public relations team to examine their social media profiles to ensure that it had not abandoned anything unintentionally.
At least one winner expressed his regret to strike the grand prize
In one of the well -known cases, Andrew “Jack” Whitaker Junior of West Virginia became a celebrity in 2002 when he won a cut of $ 113.4 million after taxes. The biggest winning of the American lottery was won by one ticket so far.
But he soon fell victim to scandals, lawsuits and personal setbacks, saying later that he hopes he had torn the ticket. He died in 2020.
Cohen said that such cases are well equipped are extremist values. He said that the vast majority of the winners are healthier and wealthy than the winners.
He said that countries, at the same time, have an interest in revealing names to thwart fraud and enhance confidence.
Cohen said: “You do not want my nephew to win all the winning of the grand prize and demanded by an unidentified and no one knows who he is,” Cohen said.
He pointed out that countries have mechanisms to prevent such possession, such as asking the names of the winners to reveal their lottery committees.
The winner of the largest grand prize victory so far has bought his ticket in California, which requires disclosure. Edwin Castro issued a written statement when he won $ 2.04 billion in 2023, but he refused to speak to the correspondents.
Last year, one of the immigrants and cancer, who won the winning award of the Grand Prix of $ 1.3 billion at a press conference, raised a large check over his head. Schultz said that these stories, along with her, have value.
“I think it might be really positive, if they want to inspire others,” he said.
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