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A MAN who won a massive £39 million lottery jackpot has revealed the first thing he bought.
John Falcon, 43, was over the moon when he took home the New York lottery’s largest-ever prize at the time.
Back in 1999, it was the Big Apple‘s biggest ever single win and the Puerto Rican had no idea what to do with all the cash.
Falcon’s purchases included a new set of gnashes costing £140k, followed soon after by a luxury apartment in the Trump Tower.
But his very first buy after scooping the jackpot was something far more modest.
In a TikTok featuring video interview footage of John, the lucky punter revealed that he “bought milk” as his first purchase.
Falcon also warned any possible lottery winners to carefully look after their finances.
“First thing you need is a tax attorney and a good accountant and a book keeper because you will have to keep track of that,” he told PIX11 last October.
“That’s why I am so happy,” he said looking right at the camera and beaming.
TikTokers on the post shared their opinion on John’s jackpot winnings.
One said: “I dont feel like I would need a tax attorney.”
“Don’t trust nobody!! Handle it yourself. Just do the right thing and you will be ok,” said another.
Falcon also urged prize winners to not get all the money at once.
Falcon requested that he got his lottery winnings in instalments over the course of 26 years, and said he carefully avoided all the “once-in-a-lifetime” investment opportunities being pitched to him constantly.
Before his life-changing moment, the proud New Yorker was desperately and unsuccessfully trying to make it as an actor.
“There was no sun, I tell you. There was just darkness, clouds, rain, constant snow. I was working. It was very Dickensian, I was like Oliver Twist,” he told ABC News back in 2005.
All that changed when his lucky numbers – taken from his old addresses – came up in October 1999.
Falcon is now planning an album based on a lifetime of his own recordings – called “DECADES: the music of a lifetime” – and then possibly a short movie thrown in for good measure.
And is he content? The answer in 2005 was: “If you’re asking me does money buy happiness… the answer to that would be yes, it does.
“Everything else is emotional, philosophical nonsense.”
Since then the big checks have kept on coming and he seems unapologetic about living life large, but still within certain limits.
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Ethan Singh
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