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30 sie 2017 · Ashe died of AIDS four years before the stadium was named in his honor. At a Grand Hyatt ballroom in Manhattan, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe watched as a screen displayed images and videos of her late husband during the name announcement ceremony.
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis arena at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center , it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world.
Tennis legend Billie Jean King and Jeanne Ashe, wife of the late champion for whom the stadium is named, look up at the new retractable roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium as preparations are underway for...
10 lut 2007 · Arthur Ashe’s widow, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, used the anniversary of Ashe’s death to unveil a fantastic, interactive Web site designed to commemorate her husband’s spirit.
4 wrz 2022 · He was married to Jeanne from 1977 until his death, in 1993, from complications of AIDS, which he is believed to have contracted from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. Moutoussamy-Ashe...
5 lut 2023 · Jeanne Ashe, wife of the late Arthur Ashe, points out to daughter Camera as the casket of Ashe is lowered into the ground on February 10, 1993, during internment ceremonies. Ashe died on Feb. 6...
6 lut 2024 · Ten months later, on February 6, 1993, Ashe—who contracted HIV from one of several blood transfusions he’d had years before during cardiac surgery—died at age 49 of AIDS-related pneumonia, leaving behind his wife and young daughter, Camera (named in honor of her mother’s profession).
