By Stu Cowan | The Montreal Gazette Canadian Jack Kent Cooke paid $2 million to purchase the Los Angeles Kings as an expansion team for the 1967-68 season. Last year, Forbes reported that the Kings were worth an estimated $276 million. Cooke, who died in 1987 at age 84, loved to tell the story that he more » Read more
Ex-wife of Kings original owner, Jack Kent Cooke, dies at 94…
By Claire Noland | LA Times The first wife of media and sports mogul Jack Kent Cooke whose record divorce settlement precipitated his sale of the Lakers, the Kings and the Forum to Jerry Buss, died of heart failure Friday at her home in Purchase, N.Y. [...] To finance the settlement of approximately $41 million more » Read more