Paid: £93M EuroMillions jackpot winner
A ticket-holder has claimed and been paid the £93M EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK.
The ticket has been validated by a Winners Advisor and the huge prize transferred to the ticket-holder. The ticket-holder has opted to remain anonymous. Therefore no further details will be released.
Read more about the validation meeting and role of the Winners Advisor.
The new millionaire, or millionaires, sit 6th in the National Lottery Rich List and now has a fortune to rival F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton who is ‘only’ worth £88M.*
This is the third, and biggest, EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK this year, and it has catapulted the winner into 6th place in the National Lottery Rich List. Top of the list are Colin and Chris Weir from Largs who banked an incredible £161 million in July 2011. The year’s biggest winners before this win were Richard and Angela Maxwell. The Conningsby couple celebrated a £53M jackpot win at the end of March.
It isn’t just Lewis Hamilton who this winner will tower over financially. According to The Sunday Times Rich List after years of pop stardom, Gary Barlow has £65M in the bank and Coldplay’s Chris Martin £52M. Wayne Rooney is worth £72M, Wimbledon winner Andy Murray has £48M and multiple Major winner Rory McIlroy has a mere £38M in the bank.
* Source The Sunday Time Rich List 2015.
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