Who Is Arthur Ashe’s Daughter?

The daughter of Arthur Ashe is named Camera Ashe. Camera was adopted by Arthur and his wife, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, in December of 1986. Camera is their first and only child.

Arthur Ashe, who was the first African-American tennis player to win the men’s singles at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open, met Jeanne Moutoussamy in 1976 and later married her on Feb. 20, 1977. Camera was adopted by the couple before Ashe discovered that he had contracted HIV, which would later lead him to suffer and die from AIDs. Jeanne named her only child Camera because of her passion for photography.