{"id":764,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/764","headline":"Buss siblings push back on Jeanie's bid to remove them as trustees","dek":"Lawyers for five of the six Buss siblings filed a 29-page response fighting Jeanie Buss' attempt to oust them as co-trustees of the family trust.","body":"The Buss family's fight over the Lakers' remaining ownership stake escalated Friday when lawyers for Joey and Janie Buss filed a 29-page response with the Los Angeles Superior Court, challenging Jeanie Buss' petition to remove them as co-trustees of the Buss Family Trust.\n\nThe dispute centers on a vote to sell the family's remaining 17.82% share of the team. Joey, Janie, Jesse, Jim and Johnny all voted in favor of the sale, while Jeanie, the Lakers' acting governor, cast the lone dissenting vote. The sale would follow former majority owner Mark Walter's $12.5 billion sale of his controlling stake to venture capitalist Joshua Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger.\n\nOn August 17, Jeanie's lawyer, Adam Streisand, disputed the validity of the siblings' vote to sell their remaining stake without her consent, setting off the current round of legal filings. Friday's response is the latest move in an effort by five of the six siblings to keep their positions as trustees and proceed with the sale despite Jeanie's objections.\n\nThe case remains before the Los Angeles Superior Court, with no resolution yet to the standoff over control of the family's trust and its say in the Lakers' ownership structure.","published_at":"2026-10-16T23:48:26.301536+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Buss siblings challenge Jeanie Buss’ petition to remove them as trustees","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7696530/2026/10/16/buss-siblings-challenge-jeanie-petition-trustees-lakers/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Buss Family Challenges Jeanie Buss’ Petition To Oust Them From Estate","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/buss-family-challenges-jeanie-buss-175836338.html"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Buss siblings' filing challenges Jeanie's petition to oust them as trustees","url":"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50195321/buss-siblings-filing-challenges-jeanie-petition-oust-them"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Buss family asks judge to dismiss Jeanie Buss' petition to block Lakers share sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/buss-family-asks-judge-dismiss-163146186.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Buss family war over Lakers sale deepens with new court filing","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/16/sports/buss-family-war-lakers-sale-deepens-new-court-filing/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Buss family war over Lakers sale deepens with new court filing","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/buss-family-war-over-lakers-183633995.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}