The winner must come forward to the California Lottery to claim the prize - and should consider hiring financial and legal advisers, spokesperson Carolyn Becker told reporters. Bargain-seekers flock to the district, but many storefronts are shuttered. The 107-block district is both a center of the West Coast apparel industry as well as a low-income area where small stores offer clothing, accessories and fabrics that spill onto sidewalks. Located in the city’s Fashion District, the narrow minimarket is a few blocks from Skid Row’s scenes of homelessness and distress, where thousands of people live in makeshift shanties that line entire blocks of the neighborhood. “The store is small” but the luck there is “big,” Herrera joked. “I have to make bigger store, more items, good service for the people. Lottery officials presented a giant symbolic check to store owner Navor Herrera and his family, and hung signs saying “billionaire made here.”Īsked about his million-dollar windfall, Herrera set his sights on the future. The winning ticket was sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market, which will receive a $1 million bonus from the lottery.

Winners don’t have to come forward publicly, but their names and the disposition of the money are public records, according to the California Lottery. The winner can choose either the total jackpot paid out in yearly increments or a $558.1 million lump sum before taxes. The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were: white balls 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball 24. history and the third largest in the history of the game. A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S.

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