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a concert violinist and once was a school
music teacher who also gave private lessons.
She now owns and operates three golf
resorts in Florida: Innisbrook Resort in
Tampa Bay, Reunion Resort in Orlando, and
Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, and
recently opened a new 168-room hotel—
Salamander Resort & Spa—in her adopted
hometown of Middleburg, Va., 50 miles west
of Washington, D.C.
Since she and her former husband sold
BET to Viacom for a reported $3 billion
in 2001, Sheila Johnson has become a partowner of the NBA’s Washington Wizards,
the NHL’s Washington Capi х