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King was born in Dayton, Ohio, and raised in Eagle Rock, California. He met Billie Jean Moffitt at California State University, Los Angeles in 1963, when he played on one of the school’s best men's tennis teams, coached by Scotty Deeds. He married Billie Jean on September 17, 1965 in Long Beach, California.
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943), also known as BJK, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. King was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups.
Kloss and her spouse Billie Jean King became minority owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team in September 2018 [18] - so Kloss has a 2020 World Series championship to her credit [19] - and Angel City FC, a Los Angeles–based team that began play in the National Women's Soccer League in 2022, in October 2020. [20]
Billie Jean King met Ilana Kloss at a tennis match. Ilana was a ball girl and eventually turned pro.The couple got hitched in a secret ceremony in 2018.
Billie Jean King has been in the spotlight for decades. The winner of 39 grand slam titles, King was at one point the number one tennis player in the world. A fierce advocate for gender equality ...
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) October 21, 2023. This past weekend, ... Husband leaves family vacation early after mother-in-law uses his toothpaste. News. News. The Telegraph.
Billie Jean King, Ilana Kloss, Alan Smolinisky & Robert L. Plummer. 2019 –present. Smolinisky & Plummer buy a share of team. [ 4] Co-founder Charlie Byrne. Co-founder Ferdinand Abell. Former Dodger owners Charles Ebbets and Ed McKeever. Peter O'Malley. Frank McCourt.
King was 29 and the No. 1 women’s player in the world. Riggs, then 55 and a thorn in the side of feminists , had been a top men’s player in the late 1930s and ‘40s. Bobby Riggs,Billie Jean ...