Here are some of our lucky senior citizens lotto jackpot winners
A 60-year-old balikbayan from New York who won the biggest jackpot of P741 million for the 6/55 Grand lotto draw in November last year.
A carpenter, 60, from Las Piñas City won the P356-million jackpot of the Grand Lotto draw early this year.
Another sexagenarian, a 61-year-old construction worker from Novaliches, Quezon City, got the P241-million jackpot of the 6/49 lotto draw in 2008.
Other elderly players who are now members of the lotto millionaires club since January include a 69-year-old retired bank employee from Baguio City who won P69 million
A retired employee from Valenzuela City who bagged P65 million.
A retired seaman from Lipa City won P65 million, while a 60-year-old sidewalk vendor from Parañaque bagged P18 million this year.
Did you know that the oldest lotto winner is a 90 years old man
Luis Salazar, at 90 the oldest Lotto winner in Florida USA , collected a $16 million jackpot.
The oldest previous Lotto winner was Anne Scheider of Stillman Valley, llinois, USA. who was 85 years old. when she split a $6.28 million jackpot with two friends..
Bill Gates again tops Forbes list
LOS ANGELES (AP) — America’s economic woes don’t appear to be hurting philanthropist Bill Gates, who tops Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans for the 18th year in a row.
The magazine said Wednesday that the Microsoft co-founder’s wealth amounts to $59 billion, ranking him ahead of all the other billionaires, who make up this year’s list.
Gates’ fortune swelled by $5 billion from a year ago, outpacing the No. 2 on the list, Warren Buffett, whose net worth is $39 billion, Forbes said.
The top 10 people on this year’s Forbes 400 list are:
— Bill Gates, $59 billion
— Warren Buffett, $39 billion
— Larry Ellison, $33 billion
— Charles Koch, $25 billion and David Koch, $25 billion (tie)
— Christy Walton & family, $24.5 billion
— George Soros, $22 billion
— Sheldon Adelson, $21.5 billion
— Jim Walton, $21.1 billion
— Alice Walton, $20.9 billion
