Despite no reaction from Jackson, the woman continually sent letters before eventually escalating to sending a gun and a murder threat – talk about a die-hard fan. In it, he says that Billie Jean was inspired by real letters the singer received in 1981 from a woman claiming he was the father of her twins. Jackson’s biographer told a different story in his 1991 book, The Magic and the Madness. She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son She’s just a girl who claims that I am the one Darron Hagan Daviss passing has been publicly announced by Pruitts In The.
I could never understand how these girls could say they were carrying someone’s child when it wasn’t true.” An obituary is not available at this time for Mrs. The girl in the song is a composite of people my brothers have been plagued with over the years. In his 1988 autobiography, Moonwalk, Jackson says, “There never was a real Billie Jean. Instead, he says “Billie Jean” is more of a character representing the many groupies he and his brothers were “plagued” with over the years. In 2022, she was awarded the French Legion of Honour.While the meaning behind the famous story of an obsessed woman stalking the “King of Pop,” calling him out as the father of her son, has floated around since the song’s release, Jackson continually denied the story before his death in 2009. In 2020, the Federation Cup was renamed the Billie Jean King Cup in her honor. In 2018, she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1990, and in 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. She has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year lifetime achievement award.
In 1972, she was the joint winner, with John Wooden, of the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award and was one of the Time Persons of the Year in 1975. The Fed Cup Award of Excellence was bestowed on her in 2010. Regarded by many as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987. She was instrumental in persuading cigarette brand Virginia Slims to sponsor women's tennis in the 1970s and went on to serve on the board of their parent company Philip Morris in the 2000s. King was also the founder of the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation.
In 1973, at age 29, she won the " Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs. King is an advocate of gender equality and has long been a pioneer for equality and social justice.
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