Jeanette Lee
A GoFundMe campaign – The Jeanette Lee Legacy Fund – was launched on February 2 to help the pool’s most recognizeable icon, the Black Widow, by assisting her in covering medical bills as she battles stage 4 ovarian cancer and as a legacy to cover the day-to-day needs and college expenses of her children. The pool community responded quickly, with APA’s Jason Bowman and Billiards’ Digest publisher Mike Panozzo hosting A Night to Celebrate the Black Widow, which streamed live, three weeks after the creation of the Legacy fund. It was followed by a series of benefit tournaments, the first of which Lee was able to attend. The fund will come to a close on June 20th, having generated over $240,000 in donations.
Black Widow Jeanette Lee Announces Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis
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Black Widow Jeanette Lee Announces Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis
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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.