The story as I read it was that at her husbands funeral she had Jonathan Winters as an "MC" and she and Winters did a ten minute comedy schtick about two thirds of way through the service. The deceased had wanted only a small private service when he died -- she invited 600 guests and held a LA society event.
There were rumors that she hired a mob hit on him to get the team. His son from a former marriage was the GM and set up to get the team -- but dad was way too smart by half. He had his will set up for a tax dodge to protect the son from getting hit with estate tax and she ended up with 70% of the team and then she fired the son after a modest amount of time ran out. The husband was a great swimmer so, of course, he drowned. She had been married five times prior with a few deaths thrown in.
Interesting...
I wasn’t aware of the funeral fiasco. The rest doesn’t surprise me much.
Sounds like a real gem of a woman.