America’s Got Talent star: $1 million prize actually worth about $200,000
America’s Got Talent‘s fifth winner, Michael Grimm, received only about $200,000 as his prize for winning the show, which advertises its prize as $1 million. That’s because he took the lump sum, instead of getting paid over time. During the show’s second season, I analyzed the fine print of America’s Got Talent’s $1 million prize …