She was an engaged member of her New Hampshire community: the sort of local who purchased a lotto ticket at a quaint, modest market that some say makes the “best subs in town.”
That Powerball ticket, though, turned out to be worth $560 million — the seventh largest jackpot in this country’s lottery history. And, according to a lawsuit filed late last month, now all the winner wants is her anonymity — the simple “freedom to walk into a grocery store or attend public events without being known or targeted,” the lawsuit says.
So the winner of the Jan. 6 drawing, referred to in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, is going to court, arguing that New Hampshire lottery officials would be irreparably invading her privacy if they disclose her identity as a result of the state’s “Right to Know” law.
“As a lottery jackpot winner, Ms. Doe is now part of a small demographic which has historically been victimized by the unscrupulous with life threatening consequences,” the lawsuit says.
