Jody Allen’s Portland Trail Blazers Face an Crossroads

By contrast, the 62-year-old corporate executive has held key executive roles for decades alongside her brother, Paul Allen, helping the billionaire Microsoft cofounder formalize the job. philanthropy and pursues her eclectic interests, including Jimi Hendrix, space and Professional Sports. In his 2011 autobiography, “Idea Man,” Paul Allen, who has never been married and has no children, wrote that his sister was “very supportive” when he was diagnosed with the disease. cancer and spent many nights watching movies with him while recovering from chemotherapy. Siblings’ lives are so close together that a lawsuit alleges that Jody tried to smuggle giraffe bones out of Botswana, where Paul frequently went on safari.