The 57-year-old Crowley will take his $1 million prize home to Portland, Maine. The senior player's victory in the 17th edition of the CBS reality show was aired Sunday.
The latest edition of the strategy-endurance game was set in the West African nation of Gabon. Eighteen castaways had come together when the season began.
The winner was chosen by a seven-member jury of previously voted-off contestants.
Runners-up were Susie Smith, a 47-year-old hairdresser and homemaker from Charles City, Iowa, and 29-year-old Jessica "Sugar" Kiper, a pinup model from Brooklyn.
The final vote was announced by host Jeff Probst in Hollywood during a live post-game special.
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Published 12/14/08 by
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