Jerry Buss
Jerry Buss was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States on January 27th, 1933 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 80, Jerry Buss biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gerald Hatten Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist.
He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning ten league titles that were emphasized by the team's Showtime era in the 1980s.
As a contributor, he is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
In Southern California, Buss owned other commercial sports franchises.
Personal life
After four children, Buss' marriage to JoAnn Mueller ended in divorce in 1972. Johnny (b.1956) Jim (b.1956), Johnny (b.1956) Jim (b. Jeanie (b. 1959) Jeanie (b. 1961) and Janie (b. ), respectively. 1963, a film adaptation of '63.' Buss was widely known as a playboy during his time as a Lakers owner, and he had a string of young girlfriends.
Karen Demel, a Bussier, had two more children with a girlfriend, Joey (b.). Jesse (b. 1985) and Jesse (b. 1988. All six of his children were involved in the Lakers corporation before his death in 2013.
Buss entered an agreement out of court in 1990, when she said she had an on-and-off relationship with Buss for 15 years and also stated that she fathered her son; the details of the deal were not disclosed.
After two California Highway Patrol officers saw him driving his gold Mercedes-Benz on the wrong side of the road in northern San Diego County, with a 23-year-old woman passenger, Buss was given a citation on May 29, 2007. After failing a field sobriety test, Buss were arrested, administered a blood test, and ticketed on suspicion of driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol level above 0.08.
Early life and business career
Buss was raised in Salt Lake City by his divorced mother, Jessie. Lydus, his father, was an accountant who went on to lecture statistics at Berkeley. He and his mother moved to Los Angeles when she was nine years old; three years later, when she remarried, she returned to Kemmerer, Wyoming. Buss received a scholarship to the University of Wyoming, after graduating with a BS degree in two and a half years in 1953. He later returned to Los Angeles and attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he earned a master's and PhD in physical chemistry in 1957 at the age of 24. Buss began as a chemist for the Bureau of Mines (now the Mine Safety and Health Administration); he later spent a short time in aerospace industry and was on the faculty of USC's Chemistry Department.
Buss began investing in real estate in order to have an income so he could continue teaching. In the 1960s, he invested $1,000 in a West Los Angeles apartment building. Mariani-Buss Associates, a long-time company partner, founded the real estate investment firm Mariani-Buss Associates, which has had a lot of success in the real estate market. Buss bought Pickfair, the Beverly Hills property that had previously owned by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; he sold it in 1987.
Buss produced Black Eye, starring former gridiron actor Fred "the Hammer" Williamson in 1974.
Buss was the operator of the Playboy Club's Phoenix location.
Buss became the owner of the Los Angeles Strings in World Team Tennis. He purchased the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA along with the Los Angeles Kings hockey team of the NBA, The Forum (all for a then-recorded $67.5 million for those three buildings) and a substantial ranch from Jack Kent Cooke in 1979, which also transferred ownership of the Chrysler Building. Buss sold his majority interest in the Kings to Bruce McNall in 1988 (who made news by trading for Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers), while keeping Lakers and The Forum's ownership. He then signed a major advertising contract with Great Western Bank for the naming rights to The Forum, resulting in the building's official name being changed to the Great Western Forum.
Buss was in charge of directing the Los Angeles Sparks, a 1996 WNBA rookie. All three teams eventually moved to the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, which opened in 1999. Buss sold the Great Western Forum as part of the agreement to transfer the Lakers into Staples Center, which was later renamed to its original name.
The Lakers were extremely successful under Buss' leadership, winning 10 NBA championships with such players as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Pau Gasol, as well as assistant Pat Riley and Phil Jackson. He pushed the Lakers' Showtime era by displaying that basketball games must be amusing. The Sparks had their share of glory in winning two WNBA championships with renowned names like Lisa Leslie, Tamecka Dixon, and DeLisha Milton-Jones.
Buss became involved in 2002, when the WNBA was restructured to give its teams individual owners, Buss. In 2006, he sold the team. The Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League were also owned by buses. In The Forum, the Lazers also appeared. The team was born in 1989 but the league was dissolving three years later.
His contributions to basketball were lauded by his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. In 1983, Buss was named the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award.