A legal battle involving former baseball commissioner\u00a0Peter Ueberroth\u2019s family trust is garnering national headlines.<\/p>\n
The Athletic, the sports division of the\u00a0New York Times, in early April was first to report on a lawsuit filed in 2025 by\u00a0Vicki Ueberroth Booth\u2014daughter of the Emerald Bay resident who ran the\u00a0LA Olympics\u00a0in 1984\u2014that contends \u201cmillions of dollars have been wasted or misused over the last two years while Peter and his wife Virginia are in cognitive decline.\u201d<\/p>\n
The target of the lawsuit is longtime family friend\u00a0Mike McKee, who, the story notes, is chairman of\u00a0Tiger Woods\u2019 Irvine-based charity, the\u00a0TGR Foundation.<\/p>\n
Business Journal readers might better know McKee as the former CEO and No. 2 at the\u00a0Irvine Company. The former\u00a0Latham & Watkins\u00a0partner also has served as a principal of\u00a0Contrarian Group, Ueberroth\u2019s private equity firm, since 2018.<\/p>\n
McKee took over as trustee of the family\u2019s trust in April 2024, amid declining health of Ueberroth, now 88. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with \u201cmoderate dementia, with strong concern for Alzheimer\u2019s disease,\u201d the story noted.<\/p>\n
Ueberroth Booth\u2019s lawsuit claimed that \u201cMcKee repeatedly subordinated the interests of the trustors and beneficiaries to those of third parties, including himself, in direct violation of his statutory duties.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been no evidence presented that McKee enriched himself in the trustee\u2019s position.<\/p>\n
The biggest accusations in the story, which didn\u2019t include a response from McKee, are that $2 million was transferred to a LA-area charity that the family was not affiliated with (and later returned), and that continued operations of Contrarian Group have come with excessive spending.<\/p>\n
Ueberroth Booth\u00a0has long served as president of the\u00a0Ueberroth Family Foundation, whose biggest reported donations have been locally based. Her court petition sought to oust McKee as trustee, with her taking over, among other demands.<\/p>\n
What hasn\u2019t been reported: court filings indicate that Ueberroth Booth has been unsuccessful in her efforts to replace McKee, which appears to be the impetus for taking the case to the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n
A December 2025 ruling noted that \u201cthe admissible evidence presented does not persuade the court that allowing McKee to continue administering the Trust is likely to result in loss or injury to any beneficiary or creditor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sources tell the Business Journal that the value of the family trust has increased substantially under McKee\u2019s stewardship.<\/p>\n
Rodgers and Hammerstein\u00a0fanatics can travel to Salzburg, Austria, to get the full\u00a0\u201cSound of Music\u201d\u00a0tour experience, or brave the drive to the\u00a0Hollywood Bowl\u00a0for the annual singalong to the famed movie in LA.<\/p>\n
Even closer: Newport Beach\u2019s\u00a0Lido Theater\u00a0on April 19 hosts its own singalong. Tickets can be bought online; the event benefits MenAlive and Voices Alive, a new, local LGBTQIA+ choir\/nonprofit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legal battle involving former baseball commissioner\u00a0Peter Ueberroth\u2019s family trust is garnering national headlines. The Athletic, the sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12416],"class_list":{"0":"post-265808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-free-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}