Former Bay Area radio personalities Ronn Owens and Jan Black have filed for chapter 13 bankruptcy despite spending the past eight months promoting a $140,000 fundraising campaign to support their mounting financial troubles.
Owens, who worked as a KGO radio host for more than 40 years, and his wife, a former KCBS host, submitted the paperwork in Arizona Federal court on Thursday, Aug. 14, according to public legal documents reviewed by the Chronicle.
Owens and Black moved to Scottsdale, where they purchased a $1.5 million home, after he retired from the San Francisco station during the pandemic. Their daughter Laura Owens, who is currently involved in an unrelated high-profile paternity case, lives with them…