Bobby Riggs Children: Meet His Seven Children

Bobby Riggs has seven children. They are Larry, Robert, Dorothy, William, John, Jimmy and Lawence Riggs. Unlike their father who was popular, none of them is famous.

James Rigg, the 22-year-old son of the former tennis champion was found dead in a rented room in Manor Haven, L.I. The cause of death was undetermined, the police said, although a narcotics implement was found near the young man’s bedside.

Riggs was married twice and had two sons from the first marriage and three sons and daughters from the second. Before he was 21 Riggs dated a fellow tennis player Pauline Betz. Then, at the Illinois state tournament, he met Catherine Kay Fischer.

They married in early December 1939 in Chicago and divorced in the early 1950s.

Riggs met his second wife, Priscilla Wheelan, on the courts of LaGorce Country Club in Miami. Priscilla came from a wealthy family that owned the prominent American Photograph Corporation based in New York.

They married in September 1952, divorced in 1971, and remarried in 1991.