LOS ANGELES >> The Buss family’s battle for control of the Lakers escalated on Friday.
Jeanie Buss went to court to block an effort by Jim and Johnny Buss to vote her off the Lakers’ board of directors.
In papers filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Jeanie Buss maintained that her brother Johnny “with the active participation of (brother) Jim breached the express terms of the trust that require them to take all actions reasonably available to them to ensure that (Jeanie) remains the controlling owner of the Lakers.”
According to her court papers, Johnny Buss, the Lakers’ executive vice president of corporate development, recently sent notice to his sister that a proposed slate of four people for the Lakers board included himself and his brother, but not Jeanie.