Biography
American entrepreneur, one of the 400 wealthiest persons in the U.S.,
worth over $6.9 billion and the owner of Turner Broadcasting, CNN, two
sports teams and some of MGM, a self-made mogul. Controversial and
bombastic, he is known as "Ted the Terrible," "Captain
Outrageous" and "Mouth of the South." Tending to talk
first, think later, he is hard-drinking and loves attention. His dad, a
driven, demanding man who pushed Turner to do more, committed suicide at
age 53. He lost his only sister to lupus in the 1980's. A super-patriot
and iconoclast, he was raised by his dad to view insecurity as the secret
of success. When his dad shot himself to death on 3/05/1963, Turner took
over the bankrupt family billboard business. Gradually, he moved into his
entrepreneurial position in TV stations and baseball teams. While a
student at Brown University, Turner developed a passion for the classics
and immersed himself in Virgil and Homer. He had come to see himself as a
kind of latter-day Odysseus who feels that his life will end before its
time. His major battles have been against nuclear weapons and for peace,
population control and environmental causes.
Approaching sports with the intensity that he puts into all his
projects, Turner bought the Atlanta Braves baseball team in 1966 and the
following year, the Atlanta Hawks basketball team. An avid ocean racer, he
holds four Yachtsman of the Year titles. He organized the Goodwill Games,
international athletic competitions that began in 1986 in Moscow. The
second games featured more than 2,500 athletes from 40 nations competing
in 21 sports, set in Seattle, WA, 1990. As the founder of CNN television,
he transmits low-cost sports and entertainment programs via satellite to
cable systems across the country.
He was married to Janie Smith Turner for 22 years. A womanizer, he went
through several marriages. After his first divorce, from Judy Nye with two
kids, he married a second time, to Jane Smith, on 6/02/1964; three kids. A
twosome with Jane Fonda in 1990, they married on 12/21/1991 in northern
Florida. An unlikely couple, both with strong egos and commitments, they
nonetheless were a power-pair and seemed to fit together until 1/04/2000
when they announced their separation, saying that they had reached a
juncture "where we must each take some personal time to
ourselves." They had often been pictured on one of Turner's nine
massive ranches, including a 107,000-acre ranch in Montana, a 350,000-acre
ranch in New Mexico and a 578,000-acre ranch spreading over New Mexico and
Colorado. Over the years he and Fonda have vied for the reputation of the
one most apt to put their foot in their mouth, she with her anti-Vietnam
war protest and he with his public jokes that the Pope should eliminate
the commandment against adultery as being out of date. Both are
high-energy people, strongly committed to their beliefs. Though Fonda is
worth a $670 million aerobics and fitness empire, Turner married to the
tune of an iron-clad pre-nuptial contract. His philanthropy includes a
donation of one billion dollars to the UN on 9/19/1997.
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