Anyone see this article?
Powerball Winner Uses Money to Fund Bikini Wrestling Show - Asylum.com
Is this why lotto winners go broke years later or good investment? I would try to stay more under the radar. His story is below, I never heard about it. What would you do with that much instead?
$35 million 'exciting, still shocking'
Lucky guy! 19-year-old S.C.'s first Powerball winner
Jonathan Vargas, 19, of Gaston, picked the winning Powerball numbers using a combination of the ages and birthdays of his family members. It was the first time he had ever played the game.
Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Vargas bought his first lottery ticket, along with gasoline and an iced tea, Saturday at a Cayce Raceway station.
His errand made history.
With the ticket, the Gaston construction worker became the first South Carolinian to win the S.C. Education Lottery Powerball Jackpot.
North Carolina residents bought the previous four winning tickets.
While Vargas won $35.3 million, he is choosing to take a lump sum of $17.3 million instead. The Airport High School graduate should have his money within two weeks, lottery officials said.
“I have a mixture of feelings. Scary. Exciting. Still shocking,” Vargas said. “I’m still telling my mother to pinch me.”
Vargas said he was working a construction job Saturday morning when “this weird feeling came over me.” He said he heard the lottery numbers in his head, jotted them on a napkin and called his mother to tell her to write them down so he could buy a ticket later that afternoon.
Vargas used the upcoming birthdays and ages of his four siblings to determine his winning numbers. His three younger siblings will turn 12, 14 and 15 this year, and his older brother will be 21. The fifth number he chose was for his mother, Patricia Richardson, who turned 43 on Sunday.
But the final Powerball number?
“Thirty was a lucky guess, I guess. It’s a blessing from God, man.”
He said he watched an 11 p.m. drawing on TV on Saturday and knew he won after the first three numbers were correct.
“I was jumping up and down.”
With the win, Vargas became one of the Midlands’ most eligible bachelors. (Patricia Richardson says her son is neither married nor in a relationship.)
Vargas intends to invest a lot of the money and go back to school, but his first purchase will be a new house for his mother, sister, three brothers and stepfather Anthony Richardson.
“We’ve been looking at houses on the Internet,” Patricia Richardson said. “We’ll buy a brand-new, big house.”
Vargas also wants to set up trust funds for his sister and brothers.
“He’s very close to his siblings,” Patricia Richardson said.
Vargas’ mother is a homemaker, and his stepfather, Anthony, 45, has been a custodian at a local hospital for five years. He declined to say which one.
“This is wild and great, and we thank God for him,” Anthony Richardson said. But how he spends the money is “his choice, his responsibility. The choices he makes, I’ll support.”
Before he starts spending his new fortune, Vargas said, he will get a lawyer and financial consultant to help him manage his millions. He’s still not sure whether he’ll keep his construction job or quit.
“I’m so young, and I just don’t want to go in the wrong direction. I have a lot of family and a lot to protect.
“So I’m not going to spend all my money. Investing is very important.”
His philosophy on how he’ll spend his money could be summed up in Psalm 41, he said.
“He who helps the poor shall be blessed.”
Powerball Winner Uses Money to Fund Bikini Wrestling Show - Asylum.com
Is this why lotto winners go broke years later or good investment? I would try to stay more under the radar. His story is below, I never heard about it. What would you do with that much instead?
$35 million 'exciting, still shocking'
Lucky guy! 19-year-old S.C.'s first Powerball winner
Jonathan Vargas, 19, of Gaston, picked the winning Powerball numbers using a combination of the ages and birthdays of his family members. It was the first time he had ever played the game.
Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Vargas bought his first lottery ticket, along with gasoline and an iced tea, Saturday at a Cayce Raceway station.
His errand made history.
With the ticket, the Gaston construction worker became the first South Carolinian to win the S.C. Education Lottery Powerball Jackpot.
North Carolina residents bought the previous four winning tickets.
While Vargas won $35.3 million, he is choosing to take a lump sum of $17.3 million instead. The Airport High School graduate should have his money within two weeks, lottery officials said.
“I have a mixture of feelings. Scary. Exciting. Still shocking,” Vargas said. “I’m still telling my mother to pinch me.”
Vargas said he was working a construction job Saturday morning when “this weird feeling came over me.” He said he heard the lottery numbers in his head, jotted them on a napkin and called his mother to tell her to write them down so he could buy a ticket later that afternoon.
Vargas used the upcoming birthdays and ages of his four siblings to determine his winning numbers. His three younger siblings will turn 12, 14 and 15 this year, and his older brother will be 21. The fifth number he chose was for his mother, Patricia Richardson, who turned 43 on Sunday.
But the final Powerball number?
“Thirty was a lucky guess, I guess. It’s a blessing from God, man.”
He said he watched an 11 p.m. drawing on TV on Saturday and knew he won after the first three numbers were correct.
“I was jumping up and down.”
With the win, Vargas became one of the Midlands’ most eligible bachelors. (Patricia Richardson says her son is neither married nor in a relationship.)
Vargas intends to invest a lot of the money and go back to school, but his first purchase will be a new house for his mother, sister, three brothers and stepfather Anthony Richardson.
“We’ve been looking at houses on the Internet,” Patricia Richardson said. “We’ll buy a brand-new, big house.”
Vargas also wants to set up trust funds for his sister and brothers.
“He’s very close to his siblings,” Patricia Richardson said.
Vargas’ mother is a homemaker, and his stepfather, Anthony, 45, has been a custodian at a local hospital for five years. He declined to say which one.
“This is wild and great, and we thank God for him,” Anthony Richardson said. But how he spends the money is “his choice, his responsibility. The choices he makes, I’ll support.”
Before he starts spending his new fortune, Vargas said, he will get a lawyer and financial consultant to help him manage his millions. He’s still not sure whether he’ll keep his construction job or quit.
“I’m so young, and I just don’t want to go in the wrong direction. I have a lot of family and a lot to protect.
“So I’m not going to spend all my money. Investing is very important.”
His philosophy on how he’ll spend his money could be summed up in Psalm 41, he said.
“He who helps the poor shall be blessed.”
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