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Miami Herald
18-03-2025
- General
- Miami Herald
Mom startles daughter awake with early morning call about big lottery win. ‘I won'
When a Maryland woman realized she won a big lottery prize, she quickly called her daughter. 'Mind you it was early and she woke me up,' the woman's daughter said in a March 18 Maryland Lottery news release. 'She's whispering in the phone, 'I won.'' The Burtonsville mother's call came after she checked her Powerball ticket for the Oct. 23 drawing and learned she had won $50,000, lottery officials said. 'I had to go over the numbers three or four times to make sure I was seeing it correctly,' the winner told lottery officials. Sure enough, the woman won a third-tier prize by matching four white balls and the red Powerball, according to lottery officials. The retired federal government worker is an occasional lottery player and bought her ticket when 'she noticed the Powerball, Mega Million and Multi-Match jackpots were pretty high' last fall, lottery officials said. But even after learning of her big win she didn't claim her prize right away, lottery officials said. Instead, 'Lucky Lady' waited until the 'luckiest day of the year', St. Patrick's Day, to claim her prize, lottery officials said. Burtonsville is about a 20-mile drive southwest from Baltimore. What to know about Powerball To score the jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball. The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338. Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state. Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online. Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Gene Hackman's Net Worth Proves He Was No Lex Luthor
Gene Hackman's unexpected death has rocked more than just Hollywood. The investigation is ongoing, and Hackman's friends and family are mourning. A winner of multiple Academy Awards, Hackman became somewhat reclusive in his later years, not interested in flaunting his accomplishments or wealth. And yet, because Hackman was in so many iconic films, one wonders: What was Gene Hackman's net worth before he died? Turns out, that although he was very much a rich man, Hackman was not on the same level as his billionaire alter-ego, the Superman villain, Lex Luthor. Here's what Gene Hackman's net worth was before he died, and how he got there. As of March 2025, Hackman's net worth was estimated at $80 million according to Celebrity Net Worth and The Economic Times. This fortune came largely from his longtime acting career. In the 1978 Superman film alone, Hackman was paid $2 million dollars. For roles in The Quick and the Dead (1995) and Lucky Lady (1975), Hackman reported was paid 1.5 million for each. For The French Connection in 1971, Hackman was paid $100,000. Over the years, these roles, and the residuals from his box office hits clearly added up. Although he didn't appear in the third Superman film in 1983, Hackman did return for Superman IV in 1987 in which he technically, played a dual role: That of Lux Luthor, but also the voice of Nuclear Man. (The body of Nuclear Man was played by Mark Pillow.) That said, Hackman wasn't only about getting huge paychecks for films. According to Ben Stiller, Hackman's role in the beloved 2001 Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums "wasn't a money job." All the Superman films stream on Max You can rent The Royal Tenenbaums on Prime Video and elsewhere for $3.99 The Quick and the Dead is streaming on Pluto TV for free. You can rent Unforgiven on YouTube and elsewhere for $3.99 You can rent The French Connection on Apple TV and elsewhere for $3.99 You can rent The Poseidon Adventure on Prime Video and elsewhere for $3.99 You can rent Crimson Tide on Google Movies and elsewhere for $3.99 You can watch Lucky Lady on DVD or YouTube.
