{"id":248403,"date":"2026-05-30T00:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:49:40","slug":"woman-named-fortune-wins-fortune-on-lottery-scratch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248403\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman named Fortune wins fortune on lottery scratch-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WKRC) &#8211; A New York woman named Francine Fortune is living up to her last name after winning a $1 million prize on a lottery scratch-off ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn resident purchased the winning 50Xtra scratch-off ticket at a liquor store, <a href=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/winner?francine-fortune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the New York Lottery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune has already claimed the prize and chose a lump-sum payment. After required taxes and withholdings, she received $416,325, lottery officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The winning ticket came from the New York Lottery\u2019s $5 50Xtra scratch-off game, which has overall odds of 1 in 4.12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WKRC) &#8211; A New York woman named Francine Fortune is living up to her last name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-248403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}