Gerald Hatten Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman,
investor
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, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the
Los Angeles Lakers
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of the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA), winning 10
league championships that were highlighted by the team's
Showtime era during the 1980s. He was inducted into the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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as a contributor. Buss owned other professional sports franchises in Southern California.
Early life and business career
Born in
Salt Lake City
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, Buss was raised by his divorced mother, Jessie. His father, Lydus, was an accountant who went on to teach statistics at Berkeley. When he was nine years old, he moved with his mother to
Los Angeles
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; they moved to
Kemmerer, Wyoming
Kemmerer is the largest city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. Its population was 2,656 at the 2010 census.
History
Explorer John C. Frémont discovered coal in the area during his second expedition in 1843. The ...
, three years later when she remarried.
Buss earned a scholarship to the
University of Wyoming
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,
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''The New York Times
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''. February 18, 2013. graduating with a
BS degree in two and a half years in 1953. He then returned to Los Angeles and attended the
University of Southern California
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(USC), where he earned an
MS and
PhD in
physical chemistry
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in 1957 at the age of 24.
[Jerry Buss Gives $7.5M to USC College]
, USC News, January 15, 2008. Buss started as a chemist for the
Bureau of Mines (now the Mine Safety and Health Administration); he then briefly worked in the
aerospace industry
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and was on the faculty of USC's chemistry department.
Buss originally went to invest in real estate in order to provide an income so he could continue teaching. His first investment in the 1960s was $1,000 in a
West Los Angeles
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apartment building. Finding great success in the real estate business, he, along with longtime business partner, Frank Mariani, formed real estate investment company Mariani-Buss Associates. In 1979, Buss purchased
Pickfair
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, the Beverly Hills estate once owned by
Mary Pickford
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and
Douglas Fairbanks
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;
he sold it in 1987.
In 1974, Buss produced a movie named ''
Black Eye
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'' starring former gridiron star
Fred "the Hammer" Williamson.
Buss was an owner of the
Phoenix
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* Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore
* Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States
Phoenix may also refer to:
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* Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ...
location of the
Playboy Club
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.
Sports team ownership
Buss became an owner of the
Los Angeles Strings
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in
World Team Tennis
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The league's season normally takes place in the summer months. Players from the ATP and WTA take a ...
. He purchased the
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers play their ...
of the
NBA
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along with the
Los Angeles Kings
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hockey
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team of the
NHL
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,
The Forum (all for a then-record combined $67.5 million for those three properties), and a large ranch from
Jack Kent Cooke
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in 1979, in a deal that also transferred ownership of the
Chrysler Building
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. Buss later sold his controlling interest in the Kings to
Bruce McNall
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in 1988 (who made headlines that year by trading for
Wayne Gretzky
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from the
Edmonton Oilers
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), retaining ownership of the Lakers and The Forum. He then reached a major advertising agreement with
Great Western Bank Great Western Bank may refer to:
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* Great Western Bank (1907–2022), bank headquartered in South Dakota
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for the
naming rights
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to The Forum, resulting in the official name of the building being changed to the
Great Western Forum
Kia Forum (formerly The Forum) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Inglewood, California, United States, adjacent to Los Angeles. Located between West Manchester Boulevard, across Pincay Drive and Kareem Court, it is north of SoFi Stadium and t ...
.
Later, when the
WNBA was formed in 1996, Buss took charge of operating that league's
Los Angeles
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franchise, the
Los Angeles Sparks
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. Eventually, all three teams moved into a more modern arena in downtown Los Angeles, the
Staples Center
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, which opened in 1999. As part of the deal to move the Lakers into Staples Center, Buss sold the Great Western Forum (which was later reverted to its original name).
The Lakers were very successful under Buss' ownership, winning 10 NBA championships with such players as
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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,
Magic Johnson
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,
James Worthy
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,
Shaquille O'Neal
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,
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant ( ; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely r ...
, and
Pau Gasol
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, and with coaches
Pat Riley
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and
Phil Jackson
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. He inspired the Lakers'
Showtime era with his vision that basketball games must be entertaining. The Sparks also experienced their share of success, winning two WNBA championships with such players as
Lisa Leslie
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,
Tamecka Dixon
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and
DeLisha Milton-Jones
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.
In 2002, when the WNBA was restructured to give its teams individual owners, Buss took ownership of the Sparks. He sold the team in 2006. Buss also owned the
Los Angeles Lazers
The Los Angeles Lazers were an indoor soccer team that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) from 1982 to 1989.
History
Jerry Buss, the owner of California Sports, the parent company of the Los Angeles Lakers, Kings and Strings of ...
of the
Major Indoor Soccer League. The Lazers also played in The Forum. The team folded in 1989 and the league folded three years later.
His contributions to basketball were recognized by his induction into the
Basketball Hall of Fame
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in 2010.
Buss received the Golden Plate Award of the
American Academy of Achievement
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in 1983.
Poker player
Buss was a high-stakes cash game
poker
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player for many years, but later in life was more active in tournament games. His best finishes included third in the
1991 World Series of Poker seven-card stud event and second place in the 2003
World Poker Tour
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Freeroll invitational. He also appeared in the
GSN series ''
High Stakes Poker
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'' and the
NBC
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late-night series ''
Poker After Dark
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Jerry Buss’s Entourage
Beginning in the early 1980s, Jerry Buss was notoriously seen in and around Los Angeles at charitable events with his ever-present entourage of close friends who were infamously dubbed in the press as “The Seven Dwarfs”. Jerry's inner circle entourage included John Rockwell, Ron and David Wilder, Miguel A. Nunez, Lance Davis, Mark Fulton, and Brian J. Sadler. This close-knit group of friends would often bid on charitable auction items that would help the causes of the events they attended. The Dwarfs were gifted championship rings when the Lakers won titles and were granted carte blanche access to all Laker home games and events at the Fabulous Forum / Great Western Forum / Staples Center. Professionally, The Dwarfs were outstanding contributors who held positions as special assistant, financial advisor, investment banker, ADPAC marketing executive. The Dwarfs were regular fixtures in and among the Showtime Lakers throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and until Jerry’s passing in 2013.
Philanthropy
In January 2008, Buss donated $7.5 million to USC's Department of Chemistry to fund two endowed chairs and an endowed scholarship fund for chemistry graduate students; the two chairs were to be named after his mentors at USC, Professors Sidney Benson and David Dows. Buss was an inaugural member of the USC College Board of Councilors.
His philanthropy also extended to people associated with the Lakers. When former Lakers player
Walt Hazzard
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, then an adviser to the team, suffered a catastrophic stroke in 1996, Buss kept Hazzard on the payroll and told Hazzard's son that his father would remain a Lakers employee for as long as Buss owned the team. When Hazzard died in 2011, he was still a Lakers employee.
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Personal life
Buss' marriage to the former JoAnn Mueller ended in divorce in 1972 after having five children: Lee (b. 1953), Johnny
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Varian ...
(b.1956), Jim
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* OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism
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* ''Jim ...
(b. 1959), Jeanie Jeanie is a feminine given name in the English language.
People with the given name
*Jeanie Buss, president of the Los Angeles Lakers
* Jeanie Deans (disambiguation)
* Jeanie Johnson
*Jeanie Lee, known as Gin Lee, Malaysian singer
*Jeanie MacPher ...
(b. 1961) and Janie (b. 1963).[Los Angeles Times: "All in the Family - If Jerry Buss has his way, the Lakers will belong to his kids" by John Ireland]
May 3, 2009 Their oldest child, Lee, was put up for adoption shortly after birth.[ During his time as Lakers owner, Buss was widely known as a ]playboy
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K ...
and had a string of young girlfriends.
Buss had two more children with a girlfriend, Karen Demel: Joey (b. 1985) and Jesse (b. 1988). At his death in 2013, all six of his children worked in the Lakers organization.
In 1990, Buss reached a settlement out of court in a palimony suit filed by Puppi Buss, who said that she had an on-and-off relationship with Buss for 15 years, and also alleged that he fathered her son; details of the settlement were not revealed.
On May 29, 2007, Buss was issued a citation for driving under the influence
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after two California Highway Patrol
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officers saw him driving his gold Mercedes-Benz
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on the wrong side of the road in the coastal community of Carlsbad in northern San Diego County
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, with a 23-year-old woman passenger. After failing a field sobriety test, Buss was taken into custody, given a blood test, and booked on suspicion of driving while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol level over 0.08.
Death
In 2012, Buss was in a hospital for months with an undisclosed intestinal problem. Through his 80th birthday on January 27, 2013, he had not attended a Lakers game during the 2012–13 season due to health concerns. On February 14, 2013, four days before his death, it was revealed that Buss had been battling cancer since 2012.
After being hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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with an undisclosed form of cancer, he died of kidney failure on February 18, 2013, aged 80. On February 21, hundreds of friends, colleagues, and family members gathered to pay tribute to Buss in a televised memorial service at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live
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, across from the Lakers' home court, Staples Center
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. Buss was buried on February 22 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
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Histor ...
in a private ceremony with family and close friends.
NBA commissioner David Stern
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said of Buss "The NBA has lost a visionary owner whose influence on our league is incalculable and will be felt for decades to come". Lakers guard Kobe Bryant
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said "His impact is felt worldwide," and called Buss “the greatest owner in sports ever.”
Buss's 66% controlling ownership of the Lakers passed to his six children via a trust, with each child receiving an equal vote (11% for each child). His succession plan had daughter Jeanie Jeanie is a feminine given name in the English language.
People with the given name
*Jeanie Buss, president of the Los Angeles Lakers
* Jeanie Deans (disambiguation)
* Jeanie Johnson
*Jeanie Lee, known as Gin Lee, Malaysian singer
*Jeanie MacPher ...
assume his previous title as the Lakers' governor as well as its team representative at NBA Board of Governors meetings. His daughter took over the Lakers on March 27, 2017.
The 2013 World Series of Poker
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held The $2,500 Seven Card Stud tournament in his memory and drew 246 entrants.
References
Further reading
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External links
Jerry Buss Hendon Mob tournament results
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''Casper Journal'' profile
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