Shriver: Tennis trophies stolen after fleeing fires
Hall of Fame tennis player Pam Shriver said Thursday that her car containing major trophies was stolen overnight from a Marina del Rey hotel where she had fled to escape the Palisades Fire.
Shriver said the Dodge Durango Hellcat, which she discovered was missing around 7:30 a.m. Thursday from the Marina del Rey DoubleTree parking lot, held five U.S. Open trophies, five French Open plates, five Wimbledon trophies and one Australian Open trophy. She said the trophies were in the car after she evacuated them from her house.
“I was just starting to take things out to pack them in the car, and I was like, ‘Where’s the car?'” said Shriver, who’s also an ESPN tennis analyst.
She then discovered broken glass in the parking lot.
The vehicle also held family photos that a passerby found around 9 a.m. in South LA and reported to the photographer whose contact information was printed on the back of the photo.
Shriver said she and her son went to the police station to file a report and said detectives are looking for her vehicle. ESPN requested the report from police, but it was not immediately available.
Shriver said she and her family found a new hotel to stay in later Thursday.
Shriver said that on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the day the Palisades flames erupted, she had reserved rooms at the DoubleTree for her housekeeper, family friends and pets who were in her canyon-area Brentwood home. When Shriver returned from a Hawaii vacation the following Friday, she joined them at the hotel after gathering some belongings from her home. Her three adult children have each stayed in the hotel with her at some point.
Shriver was scheduled to attend the Australian Open for ESPN after her Hawaii trip but returned to the LA area because of the fires.
Shriver’s Brentwood home is unscathed, but she remains in temporary shelter until heating and power are restored. She said she’s been appalled by the looting following the fires.
“Now, my family’s a victim of a crime, too,” Shriver said. “It’s really sad on so many levels that when people are at their lowest and in their most difficult times, people are doing things like this.”
