Jeanie Marie Buss, who was born September 26, 1961 is the controlling owner and president of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Jerry Buss who owned the Lakers and other sports businesses was her father. At age 19, she joined the family business as general manager of the professional Los Angeles Strings tennis team.
She later bought the pro roller hockey team Los Angeles Blades. Before she became vice president of the Lakers, she was president of the Great Western Forum.
After her father died in 2013, his controlling ownership of the Lakers went to his six children through a family trust. Each child had an equal vote. Buss became president of the team and represented the Lakers on the NBA Board of Governors.
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In 2020, she became the first woman in charge of an NBA team to lead it to a title. Keep reading to learn more about Jeanie Buss’s early life, career and net worth.
What is Jeanie Buss’s Net Worth?
Jeanie Buss’s net worth is $500 million. At the age of 19, she became the general manager of a professional tennis team called the Los Angeles Strings.
After buying the Los Angeles Blades, a roller hockey team, she became president of the Great Western Forum. After that, when her father died, she took over as vice president of the Lakers.
Jeanie Buss Career
Jeanie went to college while her father taught her how to run a business and run a sports team. She went to the University of Southern California and majored in business. She graduated with honors.
Jerry chose Jeanie, who was 19 at the time and in college, to be the new manager of the Los Angeles Strings. Jeanie was the president of the Great Western Forum, which was the Lakers’ stadium at the time, for four years after becoming the owner of the Los Angeles Blades in Roller Hockey International.
She showed Jerry that she was good at business, and he planned for her to run the business side of the Lakers while her brother Jim made decisions about sports.
By 2005, she was one of the most important sportswomen. After Jerry died in 2013, Buss fired both General Manager Mitch Kupchak and her brother Jim, who was VP of Basketball Operations.
Jeanie Buss Early life
Buss was born in Santa Monica, California. She was the third of Joann and Jerry Buss’s four children and one of their two daughters. Her brothers Johnny and Jim were older than her, and her younger sister Janie was younger.
When their parents split up in 1972, Buss felt emotionally alone. Buss went to World Team Tennis meetings with her father, who owned the Los Angeles Strings when she was 14 years old. When she was 17, she moved to Pickfair to live with her father.
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She learned so much about the estate that she was able to give tours. Buss went to college at the University of Southern California (USC), where she studied business and graduated with honors.
Jeanie Buss Personal life
Buss married volleyball player Steve Timmons in 1990, but they split up three years later. According to Buss, “I never put my marriage first … It was always business which attracted me.”
In May 1995, she posed naked for Playboy. She was engaged to Phil Jackson, the former coach of the Lakers and president of the New York Knicks, for four years. They had been dating since December 1999.
Jackson broke off their engagement on December 27, 2016, citing “professional obligations and the distance” as the reason. After they broke up, Buss talked to Jackson about the Lakers to get his thoughts.
Buss told her Twitter followers in September 2021 that she was dating comedian Jay Mohr. On December 21, 2022, Jeanie Buss and Jay Mohr told the public that they were going to get married.
Real Estate
In 2019, Buss got $2.575 million for her Playa Vista home. She bought the property for $2.45 million in 2017. Even though the house was first listed for $225,000 more than what it sold for, she agreed to the lower price.
After buying it two years ago, Buss did some work on the place to make it more appealing to future buyers. Before putting the house back on the market, a quick coat of neutral paint and some new fixtures helped it look better.
Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and comedian Jay Mohr are now engaged, per TMZ pic.twitter.com/ATY1P3dkpq
— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) December 21, 2022
Her old Playa Vista home is on a corner lot and has almost 3,200 square feet of living space. French doors, a flagstone patio and a three-car garage. Buss is said to own another property in Playa Vista, and this four-bedroom condo was bought by her in 2018.
In 2020, Jeanie bought a new home in Los Angeles’s Playa del Rey neighborhood. She paid $2.6 million for the house, which is only a few miles from Los Angeles International Airport, which was a good choice.
The waterfront property with four bedrooms stands out because it has a pool, a spa and a gym. The 2,200-square-foot home is also in the Playa del Rey area, in a gated community called Breakers.
Even though Buss had bought other homes in the LA area before, this was her first waterfront home… For more such updates do follow us only on Lee Daily.
