[2] Billie Jean King and her partner Ilana Kloss joined the Los Angeles Dodgers ownership group in 2018.
[4][5][6] In the late 1990s Rupert Murdoch's Fox Entertainment Group bought the Dodgers from the team's original owner, the O’Malley family.
Bud Selig, Major League Baseball's commissioner at the time, later accused McCourt of saddling the Dodgers with debt and dipping into team funds to pay for personal expenses.
[8] This event occurred shortly after an LA Times report that McCourt had obtained a personal loan from Fox to cover the team's payroll for April and May.
of Guggenheim Partners, a Chicago-based global financial services company, and basketball hall of famer Magic Johnson.
[16] On January 28 the Dodgers and Time Warner Cable signed a 25-year broadcast agreement valued at $8.35 billion,[17] subject to the approval of Major League Baseball, which would see the establishment of a new channel known as SportsNet LA.
Todd Boehly was president of Guggenheim Partners until leaving in 2015, Boehly bought some of the assets he had collected at Guggenheim, including The Hollywood Reporter, Dick Clark Productions, and Security Benefit, to found Eldridge Industries, a private investment firm that specializes in providing both [clarification needed] debt and equity capital.
[28] A graduate of the College of William & Mary, Mr. Boehly dealt in leveraged finance at Credit Suisse First Boston and high-yield investments at Whitney & Co.
He has also produced Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing, and Flashdance.
[27] Robert (Bobby) Patton, Jr., is a partner of Guggenheim Baseball Management and became part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 30, 2012.
Patton principally operates oil and gas properties in Texas and Kansas and has additional investments in many other sectors, including ranching and insurance.
He also serves as the tournament chairman of the Dean & Deluca Invitational PGA Tour event at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.