CNN Producer Jennifer Hauser Wins $1 Million In Lottery 3 Months After Winning $100K

Most days CNN producer Jennifer Hauser spends her time working on news stories.

Today, she's making the news.

Hauser, who lives in Atlanta, scratched her way to a $1 million win in the Georgia Lottery playing the instant game 50X The Money.

Since this win occurred just three months after she won $100,000 playing a different game, Georgia Lottery Black, it's not surprising that she didn't know how to react.

“I was a little numb,” Hauser said of the prize, which she claimed on Monday. “I didn’t know what to think.”

Hauser bought a new car and paid bills with her old winnings and now says she may use some of her current prize to buy a new car for her mother.

A double lottery win is certainly unusual, but it's not uncommon.

On Feb. 8, Erik Holmes, 44, claimed a $500,000 lottery prize, less than a year after he won $104,000, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Comments

[aristocat12]

09:32 PM on 02/19/2012

Give some to animal charities,help save animals.

[hman570]

09:25 PM on 02/19/2012

Nice to see that someone in the working class wins big for a change.

[myrainforest]

08:02 PM on 02/19/2012

Good for her. The ratings are so low at CNN they don't pay well.

[tbird57lover]

09:49 PM on 02/19/2012

:-)

[gardinerda]

06:12 PM on 02/19/2012

She is LUCKY! Good for her, and I wish her the very BEST!

[goodbarnes]

06:03 PM on 02/19/2012

The lady probably enjoys a very large salary...while millions of people out of work prayed that their tickets would win. No sour grapes intended, but life ain't fair.

[pogo]

10:02 AM on 02/19/2012

Her uncle, the state's lottery director, said it isn't uncommon for an individual to win the lottery twice, or even three or four times.

[TAIsabel]

06:51 PM on 02/18/2012

I guess money attracts money!

[janedoe31]

05:25 PM on 02/17/2012

now thats lucky

[TriciaTakanawa]

03:56 PM on 02/17/2012

Congratulations!!!!

[norepublicanleftbehind]

02:08 PM on 02/17/2012

Fun for her! Hope she enjoys it.

[ESJ247]

11:56 AM on 02/17/2012

Is she single?

[gsandersjr]

11:48 AM on 02/17/2012

occupy her street

[Ronald Ferreira]

03:20 AM on 02/17/2012

shes going to be big headed and hate everyone now shes rich.

[inimegxis]

09:43 PM on 02/16/2012

What's the difference between lucky and corruption?

Are wealthy bankers just lucky?

[inimegxis]

09:40 PM on 02/16/2012

People are naive. If there are multitudes of people winning large jackpots more than twice, people should be concerned. it means that the winning scratch offs are not randomly dispersed throughout all counties of a state. wouldn't it piss you off if you learned that if you lived in a certain county, you never had a chance in hell of winning because most of the winning tickets are sent to only certain areas. remember the McDonalds Monopoly game before 2001, turns out for about twenty years prior no one had a chance winning the large prizes because the game's regulator was corrupt and gave out the winning tickets to friends and family across the country. he got away for it for decades because he spread out the winners throughout the country.