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Oregon man battling cancer revealed as winner of $1.3 billion Powerball | |
jackpot | |
By Kaila Nichols, CNN | |
Updated: | |
1:26 PM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
An Oregon man who says he’s been battling cancer for eight years and | |
received chemotherapy just last week is among three winners of this | |
month’s $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot. | |
Cheng “Charlie” Saephan said he is sharing the prize with his | |
wife, Duanpen Saephan, and friend Laiza Chao. The trio chose the cash | |
option of over $422 million after taxes. Chao will receive 50% of the | |
earnings and the Saephans will each take 25%. | |
“I’m happy for my family. They will have a good life,” Cheng | |
Saephan, 46, said Monday at an Oregon Lottery news conference. “But | |
to myself, I’m in the middle of battling cancer, so I’m thinking, | |
‘How am I going to have time to spend all this money?’” | |
Saephan said he plans to live a “normal” life moving forward and | |
buy his family a “dream home.” | |
This was the fourth-largest jackpot in history, according to | |
Powerball. The historic to give additional time needed to complete | |
pre-draw procedures. This win was also the largest Powerball prize won | |
in Oregon. | |
The winning ticket was sold at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in | |
Portland, according to the Oregon Lottery. The store receives a | |
$100,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. | |
Saephan, a native of Laos who has lived in Portland for 30 years, said | |
the winning numbers were computer-generated using the Quick Pick | |
option. | |
“God picked for me,” he said. | |
When Saephan discovered he won, he called his friend Chao, of | |
Milwaukie, Oregon, who had given him $100 toward buying the lottery | |
tickets. | |
“She’s driving on the way to work,” Saephan said. “And I told | |
her, ‘You don’t have to go work now. We won the lottery. We won the | |
jackpot.’” | |
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