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Sheila Crump Johnson (born January 25, 1949) is an American billionaire businesswoman, co-founder of BET, and CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts. [1]Johnson is a vice chairman and partner of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, a professional sports holding company which manages the Washington Capitals (NHL), the Washington Wizards (NBA), and the Washington Mystics (WNBA).
His parents moved the family to Freeport, Illinois, when he was a child. [3] He was an honors student in high school. [3] [4] Johnson graduated from the University of Illinois in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in social studies. [3] [4] While at the University of Illinois, Johnson became a member of the Beta chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity ...
His father was Robert Wood Johnson II, president and chair of Johnson & Johnson, [2] and his mother was Elizabeth Dixon Ross Johnson. [3] An only child, his parents divorced in 1928 and his father married two more times, first in 1930 and again in 1944. [4] [5] From his father's second marriage, he had a younger half-sister, Sheila Johnson.
But when entrepreneur Sheila Johnson laid eyes on it years ago, the area 50 miles west of Washington, D.C., was boarded up and nearly bankrupt, save a few thriving shops, she said.
Sheila Johnson, co-owner of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, sparked criticism on Friday after she told CNN that Time magazine could’ve put the “whole” league on its cover instead of Indiana ...
Caitlin Clark's former college coach, Lisa Bluder, thinks it's time for everyone around the WNBA — including Washington Mystics co-owner Sheila Johnson — to "embrace" how Clark's stardom has ...
Perhaps to her chagrin, Johnson is best known as the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), the media mecca that earned her the title of the first Black woman billionaire in the U.S ...
In 1930, Johnson married Margaret (Maggi) Shea. They had one adopted child, Sheila Johnson Brutsch (born 1939). The couple divorced in 1943 after Bob met Evelyn Vernon. [8] In 1944, Johnson married Evelyn Vernon (née Paynter), a former ballet dancer and a dance instructor who, like Johnson, was married when they met. [8]