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Barbara Jean Carnegie Berwald dies at 94

Written By Unknown on Monday 23 July 2012 | 02:12


Barbara Jean Carnegie Berwald, 94, the first wife of media magnate Jack Kent Cooke and sport, the record of a divorce settlement precipitated the sale of the Lakers, Kings and Forum by Jerry Buss, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Purchase, New York, John Kent Cooke his nephew, Jr. said.

Born in 1917 in Port Perry, Canada, and soon after moved with his family in St. Catharines, in the province of Ontario.

Cooke married in 1934, when he was 17 years old and an inclination of 21 years old encyclopedia salesman in case of success.

He moved to California in 1960 and became U.S. citizens. Her husband has acquired the broadcasting, publishing, sports and real estate worth between $ 80 million and $ 100 million when the property was divided in 1979, two years after her divorce.

They were married for 42 years and had two sons, Ralph Kent Cooke and John Kent Cooke.

To finance the liquidation of approximately $ 41,000,000 ordered by Judge Joseph Wapner, Cooke sold his sports teams Los Angeles and Inglewood arena, as well as a cattle ranch in Northern California, in Buss, who still owns the Lakers. The solution was then a U.S. record.

He kept a pair of Bel-Air, was active in charity in Los Angeles and later married Thomas Berwald.

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