The California Lottery announced the name Friday of last summer's downtown Los Angeles $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot winner.The winning numbers were 7, 10, 11, 13 and 24, with a Powerball of 24. Alvarez had the choice of claiming a $558.1 million lump sum, before taxes, or an annuity. She chose the lump sum prize.Alvarez's July 2023 win 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 other win happened roughly three months later, in October 2023, when a $1.7 billion Powerball ticket was sold at Midway Market in Frazier Park.Earlier this month, the Lottery announced that a group of people won that prize. In both cases, the winners did not wish to make any public comment. The Powerball world-record $2.