Lee’s beautiful and deadly game, underscored through her nickname “The Black Widow,” has attracted attention away from the pool table as well. She has been featured on ESPN’s list of Sexiest Female Athletes in the World, in Esquire’s Ten Women We Love and among Aloette Cosmetics Dozen Most Attractive Women Athletes. Jeanette has made television appearances on Arli$$, Best Damn Sports Show Period, Entertainment Tonight, Extra!, Hard Copy, HBO Real Sports, Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Today, The Late Show with David Letterman and Live with Regis & Kelly. She was also featured in an ESPN SportsCenter commercial and made a cameo appearance in the Walt Disney Picture The Other Sister.
The combination of Lee’s pool prowess, engaging personality, beauty and mystique has led to Lee’s renowned reputation as the most famous pool player of her generation. She is unmistakably a fan favorite and continues to dazzles audiences with her pool artistry and arsenal of trick shots. Golf Digest proclaims Lee “an absolute show stopper,” noting that “she was the star at our U.S. Open party filled with Donald Trump, Carson Daly and other celebrities.”
World champion pool player, celebrity, and philanthropist Jeanette Lee recently announced in March 2007, plans to build the first Black Widow Billiards at Carolina Crossroads. The two-story, 20,000 square foot facility will feature 24 pool tables, a full-service pro-shop, restaurant, VIP rooms. Scheduled to open in 2008, Black Widow Billiards will be equipped for televised tournaments, as well as charity and corporate events.
Jeanette Lee currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband George Breedlove, a top ranked men’s pro billiards player and owner of Midwest Outdoor Products, their three year-old adopted daughter Cheyenne Lee Breedlove, whom they have had since her birth, and John Kang, a fifteen year-old New York native who they obtained legal guardianship over in February 2007. Morgan and Olivia Breedlove, Jeanette¡¦s two step-daughters, are currently attending universities in Indiana.