In her episode of Desert Island Discs, tennis great Billie Jean King opened up about her ... ‘I did have an affair with Marilyn Barnett’ and you could have heard a pin drop,” she said.

Billie Jean King – queen of the ’60s and ’70s ... Billie Jean was very publicly outed when Marilyn Barnett, an assistant she’d formed a relationship with, sued her for palimony.

In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King ... friendship with Marilyn Barnett (Andrea ...