$878M South Carolina Lottery Winner, Sharing With Charities

Jee Patel checks out a customer at the KC Mart in Simpsonville, S.C., on Feb. 19, 2019. The store sold the only Mega Millions ticket to win the $1.5 billion jackpot in October 2018. The ticket has not been claimed. Jeffrey Collins/AP

COLUMBIA, S.C.—The South Carolina woman who won $878 million in the biggest jackpot payout to one winner in U.S. history wants to share her windfall with the city and state where her good fortune happened.

The winner still wishes to remain anonymous because she wants to “live a life of relative normalcy, free of fear,” she said in a statement issued Thursday, March 14, by her lawyer, Jason Kurland.