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Jeanette Lee, Black Widow of billiards, has ovarian cancer
By Arun Kristian Das article
Former world pool champion Jeanette Lee, the Black Widow, at the Hong Kong Pool Club, May 6, 2004 (South China Morning Post via Getty Images)
NEW YORK - Jeanette Lee, the iconic former No. 1-ranked billiards master whose moves were ubiquitous on ESPN s pool broadcasts in the 1990s, has announced that she has advanced ovarian cancer.
Lee, a Brooklyn native whose friends gave her the nickname the Black Widow, has stage 4 ovarian cancer, according to a news release from the American Poolplayers Association. She is undergoing chemotherapy and plans to have surgery soon to slow the progress of the disease, the APA said in the news release.