{"id":464703,"date":"2026-09-15T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464703\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:26:10","slug":"oakland-county-mans-lottery-prediction-comes-true-with-1-5m-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464703\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County man’s lottery prediction comes true with $1.5M win"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Oakland County man has always told his girlfriend he was going to win big playing the lottery. He finally did.<\/p>\n

The 74 year old, who chose to remain anonymous, recently won a $1.5 million Lotto 47<\/a> Double Play prize, according to the Michigan Lottery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He purchased a ticket ay Zetouna Liquor Fine Wine, 3793 Rochester Road in Rochester Hills, that matched the six Lotto 47 Double Play numbers drawn June 17: 34, 35, 41, 44, 45 and 47.<\/p>\n

Michigan Lottery big winners in 2026<\/p>\n

1 of 6<\/p>\n

Paul Pattwell of Pinckney, 68, mistakenly purchased two Fantasy 5 tickets for the same drawing while he was vacationing in Northern Michigan and won two $110,000 Double Play prizes. He matched the Fantasy 5 numbers in the June 15 drawing to win the big prizes. (Provided by Michigan Lottery)<\/p>\n

“I play Mega Millions, Powerball, and Lotto 47 regularly and have always told my girlfriend that one day I was going to win big,” he told the Michigan Lottery. “She always checks my tickets for me, so right after she found out I’d won, she called me and said: ‘You really did it! You won the lottery!’ When she told me how much I’d won, I was stunned!”<\/p>\n

More: Michigan man thought he won $5,000 before finding $1 million prize<\/a><\/p>\n

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An Oakland County man won a $1.5 million Lotto 47 Double Play prize June 17.<\/p>\n

The man recently claimed his prize and chose to receive a one-time lump-sum payment of about $1.04 million rather than annuity payments for the full amount.<\/p>\n

He plans to share the money with family and invest the rest.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Oakland County man’s lottery prediction comes true with $1.5M win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland County man has always told his girlfriend he was going to win big playing the lottery.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[20364,143,145,144,3414,182998],"class_list":["post-464703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-michigan-lottery","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-rochester-hills","tag-zetouna-liquor-fine-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}