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LOS Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter used to have one of the most impressive sports portfolios in the entire world, but his empire is quickly falling apart.
Federal investigations by the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission have forced Walter to come up with massive amounts of cash quickly.
Walter has completed the sales of multiple international brands in just the last few months, with more likely on the way.
In August, he agreed to sell his majority stake in the Los Angeles Lakers for a record $12.5 billion to Josh Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger.
That was just a year after he bought a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family in 2025.
Just one month later, Walter dumped his 12.7 percent stake in BlueCo, the consortium that owns Chelsea FC in the Premier League and French club RC Strasbourg Alsace.
It is estimated that Walter received somewhere between $550 million to $630 million for his stake in the teams.
Now, Walter is considering two more major sporting sales to continue boosting his capital.
His company, TWG Global owns the controlling stake of the newly formed Cadillac Formula 1 team.
That team was formed as the 11th entry on the F1 grid, after after the team’s first season in the sport Walter is already looking to get out.
His stake is valued at an estimated $3 billion, and while no sale has been completed there will likely be a huge amount of interest in taking over the squad.
Walter is also shopping his stake in the Los Angeles Sparks, the WNBA sister team of the Lakers.
He is asking upwards of $700 million for the team, according to Bloomber.
If Walter completes those final two sales, he will have earned nearly $17 billion in the course of just a few months.
And he has the ability to earn even more, but Walter has two more sports assets that he doesn’t plan to sell.
He currently has no plans to divest from the Professional Women’s Hockey League which began play in 2024.
And of course, his baby is the Dodgers which he will likely never sell.
However, if he needed to, Walter could fetch upwards of $10 billion for the Dodgers in an open-market sale.