All news on the topic: Lottery winners

The winning numbers from Wednesday night's National Lottery's Lotto draw have taken place with the chance for one lucky participant to win a life-changing £8.5 million triple rollover

Desiree Fortini-Craft, a Boston resident, won a $25 million (£19.8 million) lottery prize, her second win in over 15 years. She opted for a one-time payment of $16.25 million (£12.87 million)

Tom Crist was having lunch at a country club with some friends when he found out he won the lottery, but the wealthy CEO decided he didn't need the money and so donated it to charity

After Alabama was hit by a series of deadly tornadoes in March 2019, leaving 23 people dead, one lottery winner decided that she would share her winnings to help aid in the lottery relief efforts

Two people who won £1million and another who won £84,616.60 in a special EuroMillions draw last month are yet to claim their prizes - and risk losing a huge amount of money

Lottery players in Iowa enjoyed seven hours of believing they had won after the wrong numbers were posted to the website for the Powerball draw on Monday night before officials noticed the mistake

Reading couple Graham and Caroline Parris filmed the moment National Lottery operators confirmed their £1.2million Lotto win - before she used the footage to quit her job

The lottery winner set up a limited company to claim the winnings which amount to millions of dollars. Their identity has not yet been publicised

Powerball winners like Edwin Castro face a life-changing experience. Here's what a lawyer that represents them thinks is the toughest thing they have to deal with

A lottery in Maine who won an incredible $1.35 billion in January is suing his daughter's mom, saying she told his parents despite signing a non-disclosure agreement

“There was just something telling me when I woke on Saturday morning... when I realised I wasn’t dreaming, I turned to my husband, Paul, and screamed – ‘we’re millionaires!’ He is a very laid back person and told me to calm down"

The 57-year-old groom purchased the Diamonds & Pearls lottery ticket from an E-Z Mart in Prudenville, Michigan and went on to win one million dollars

A man who won a stunning lottery jackpot and splashed the cash on buying up luxury property is continuing to live the high life by collecting vintage and luxury cars

Justine White has just landed a dream £30,000 windfall payment along with 4 neighbours after playing the Postcode Lottery - and now she plans to treat herself with a swanky new gadget

A lottery win isn’t all it seems, with huge riches often prompting huge mistakes. Here we’ve compiled the worst mistakes ever made, so you can ensure you don’t do the same when your lucky day comes

Camelot has shared some recordings of calls made to National Lottery winners - and it shows mixed reactions including silence, screaming, running around the room and dancing

In a newly-released audio clip of former admin worker Charlotte Peart ringing the lotto call centre, she is overcome with laughter and can barely contain her excitement

Janet Pflaumer-Phillips and her husband Kevin are likely the luckiest married couple to have lived - after they hit separate $1million lottery jackpots three times in just five years

A shooting, a kidnapping, and decades spent in court. For many winning the lottery is the dream of a lifetime, but for Tonda Dickerson it ended up being her worst nightmare in Alabama

A $1million lottery win to most people is the stuff of dreams, but to one (un)lucky Florida winner, it turned out to be the stuff of nightmares

Nobody won tonight's huge £7million jackpot in the Lotto draw, Camelot confirmed. The next draw is taking place on Wednesday and the estimated jackpot is £8.4million

Brent Young couldn't believe his luck after a worker handed him a winning ticket of $10million at Prince Food & Gas in California - he was meant to buy it at his regular gas station but it was closed

One lucky man in Massachusetts will avoid any financial anxieties which come with retiring from his profession as a truck driver - after hitting a colossal $1million jackpot on a scratch card

Just five days after retiring, Massachusetts great-grandmother Susan Maxwell won a colossal $1 million in the lottery. She plans on spending the life-changing sum on her large family

After buying $5 scratch-card one man from Alabama became a millionaire overnight thanks to the Florida lottery's ''$150,000 a year for life'' game. Now the 49 year old is letting the news sink in.