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Bjorn Borg in Financial Trouble: Bjorn Borg said he refused an offer of fresh capital to rescue his struggling fashion business built on earnings from his 10-year championship tennis career.
July 25, 1989
All the Rage
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April 24, 2009
Sports
Bjorn Borg, the one-time tennis star who resumed his career in 1991, admitted in a Swedish television interview that he has used cocaine.
Nov. 15, 1992
Business
Bjorn Borg’s fashion-based business empire, founded on the winnings of a fabulous 10-year tennis career, is collapsing after Borg rejected a rescue offer of fresh capital, his partner said today.
July 24, 1989
Bjorn Borg Loses Court Battle: Five-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg suffered a defeat in court when he was ordered to pay creditors of his failed business empire between $1.65 million and $2 million (10 million and 12 million crowns).
April 9, 1990
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Jan. 18, 2005
More than six years since he retired from tournament tennis, Bjorn Borg is in business again, only not the tennis business.
May 27, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Former tennis star Bjorn Borg has “personally promised” to meet the debts of his fashion company, the president of the firm, Stig Sjoblom, said in a statement on behalf of the Bjorn Borg Design Group.
Aug. 3, 1989
World & Nation
Bjorn Borg’s elegant seaside home in Stockholm will be seized and sold at auction if he doesn’t pay a $1.1-million debt owed by his former business partner, Lars Skarke, court officials said.
June 22, 1990
Former Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg will close the Monaco headquarters of his international business operation, the liquidator of his ailing fashion empire said today.
Aug. 10, 1989