{"id":1026303,"date":"2026-08-26T23:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1026303\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:57:16","slug":"jeanie-buss-on-offense-sues-siblings-to-keep-stake-in-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1026303\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanie Buss On Offense, Sues Siblings To Keep Stake In Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo of her siblings are now onboard with the San Diego Padres ownership, but Jeanie Buss<\/a> is clearly nowhere near exiting the game when it comes to the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJeanie never agreed to any sale, was never consulted, and was never even informed,\u201d declares a petition filed Wednesday in LA Superior Court by the Running Point<\/a> EP and Lakers governor to stop the five other children of Dr. Jerry Buss from selling the family\u2019s remaining 17.8% in the team they owned for championship winning decades. In fact, annoited heir Buss and her lawyers argue it\u2019s actually bad business for the competitive siblings (to put it as kindly as possible) to sell right now as the Lakers are a growth asset with \u201ccontinuously skyrocketing value.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBack on August 17, the other Buss children said it was \u201ctime to use this opportunity to move on and exit gracefully while we still can\u201d and they were sell the family position in the team. Jeanie Buss and her lawyers said hold on back then, and today they made it court stamped official<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a five claim document, Buss not only wants the family fire sale stopped, but Joey and Janie Buss tossed out as co-trustees of the clan stake, and \u201ccontempt of court\u201d measure brought down hard on her siblings for their \u00a0\u201cdefiant\u201d behavior. With the 2026\/2027 NBA<\/a> season starting on October 20, a hearing on Buss\u2019 petition is currently on the LASC calendar for November 15. <\/p>\n

\n\tIf the Buss\u2019 do sell, Jeanie Buss will lose her governor role at the Lakers (gotta have at least 15% of the team to qualify) and controlling owner mantel. <\/p>\n

\n\tEven though the family sold most of its Lakers holding to Mark Walter in June 2025 for a hefty $10 billion, Jeanie Buss (who got a five year governor term out of the deal) is taking all this family drama very personally. \u201cTheir conduct is not driven by financial necessity but by animosity toward Jeanie and in willful disregard for the (Trust), this Court\u2019s 2017 Order, their fiduciary duties, and Dr. Buss\u2019s express intent,\u201d today\u2019s petition says of Jeanie Buss\u2019 siblings<\/p>\n

\n\tIf present posturing continues and Buss holds hard to a previous court order from 2017 when the family last starting playing legal dodge ball, that post-midterms hearing won\u2019t be pretty. It also may see some big names pulled on to the court, literally and figuratively. <\/p>\n

\n\tGiving a shout out to newly minted Lakers majority stakeholders Bob Iger<\/a> and Josh Kushner<\/a>, who snagged over 63% of the home of Magic, Kobe and up until recently LeBron for $12.5 billion on August 12 from the federally investigated Walter, Buss\u2019 filing states \u201cindeed, other owners of stakes in the Lakers have expressed their support for Jeanie remaining Controlling Owner, and have voiced their intent to hold, not sell, their stakes in the Lakers.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s true, when the ex-Disney boss and Thrive Capital<\/a> founder made their deal with Dodgers boss Walter, Iger made a point of proclaiming Jeanie Buss was part of the package in his eyes.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe have enormous respect and appreciation for Jeanie, her father and what they\u2019ve contributed to this franchise,\u201d Iger\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Rupert Murdoch\u2019s\u00a0The California Post\u00a0on August \u201cAnd we have every intention to honor the agreement that was made between Mark and Jeanie. If things change, they\u2019ll change, but we\u2019re going into this with enormous respect and appreciation for who she is and what she represents in the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, as Iger and Kushner await a near sure approval of their Lakers purchase at the NBA Board of Governors\u2019 September 15\/16 meeting, the presence of the Buss family won\u2019t change their sway over the 11-championship winning team \u2014 but it will leave a court side stink on the whole thing.<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Iger and Kushner did not respond to Deadline\u2019s request for comment on the latest Buss family squabble. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of her siblings are now onboard with the San Diego Padres ownership, but Jeanie Buss is clearly…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1026304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[76382,85531,367348,3141,1260,360242,62,243473,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1026303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bob-iger","tag-jeanie-buss","tag-josh-kushner","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-running-point","tag-sports","tag-thrive-capital","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117164523543284416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}