Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson may have garnered the bulk of the headlines when his group purchased the XFL on Monday ahead of a scheduled bankruptcy auction but his ex-wife and longtime business partner Dany Garcia was the one who presented him with the idea to purchase the shuttered football league. Together, Johnson, Garcia and the private equity firm RedBird Capital purchased the league for $15 million..
Garcia, a former Merrill Lynch Associate Vice President, and Johnson were married from 1997 to 2007. In 2008, she became his business manager and the pair have worked together on a variety of projects, including producing many of Johnson’s blockbuster films.