Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Right, but what I mean is, do U.S. lottery winners usually make the news in other countries?
Not every time but there have been US lottery winners shown on Aussie TV occasionally. I'd say under normal cirucumstances Hurley's win wouldn't have been shown but his grandad carking it made it exceptional circumstances, so it would've got a nod.
Hurley is spry. He may very well be a warrior.
I think the fact that he won such a large amount may be a factor as well in it making the news in other countries. I seem to remember them saying something about the total being unusually high because no one had won for a few weeks.
16 weeks
My figuring is this: He has $157 million, 1/2 of that is profit from investment ventures and their associated calamities. Or does it?
That makes his after-taxes take from the lottery to be approximately 78.5 million after taxes. However, that number can be off.
The financial advisor says he "doubled his investment." Hurley could have only invested, say, $15 million. There was nothing to suggest he invested his entire lottery winnings, nothing to say he didn't.
If it was only $15 million, and now he has $30 million more than his original Lottery winnings after taxes, that brings the total to $142 million after taxes. Since the Federal and state tax systems love large windfalls, I'm using the guestimate of 50% going to income taxes, fees and other taxes.
That would bring his winnings to around $284 million, certainly worth widespread coverage, add in the family tragedies and his arrest... Definate noteriety.
All of which, of course is a radical and off-the-cuff guesstimate.
Then again, I also meant to buy it and send it in an envelope to my ex to freak him out.
Lilty funny.
Or unstable. Jury's out.
Okay. SO NICE. Got the first batch of RSVPs from the LOST writers, all yes, with a nice note from Damon thanking us for putting it together. And checks for the charity, too.
Yay! That's marvelous, Allyson.
FYI, there's one of those hobbit people posting at www.thefuselage.com