Michael Jordan (58) is cruising the Adriatic on a 95-meter-long yacht and the weekly rent is around one million euros. He also transferred his successes on the basketball courts to his private life, where he has been happily married for eight years to his wife Yvette Prieto (42), who keeps him company on vacation.
But this is not Michael's first marriage, as he has been married for 18 years to Juanita Vanoy.
They married in 1989 at a time when his career was gaining worldwide fame. He met his then-wife Juanita back in 1985 at a restaurant in Chicago. Their mutual friend thought the two of them would be the ideal couple. After walking around and enjoying the beginnings of falling in love, Michael ‘gathered his courage’ in 1987 and proposed to Juanita at a New Year’s Eve celebration.
The wedding was in Las Vegas, and then the couple had their first child, a son, Jeffrey, who was born a year earlier. At first, Michael didn’t believe he was his son, which is why Juanita hired a lawyer as well.
"She told me she was pregnant and that Michael was the father of the child." She felt she couldn’t get the basketball player’s reaction or attention without the help of a lawyer, lawyer Michael Minton told The Washington Post in a later interview.
The following year, in 1990, the young couple had a second son, Marcus, and a daughter, Jasmine, who was born in 1992. An ambitious Michael directed his sons to basketball, but they did not stay there too long. Jeffrey works at Jordan Brand as a digital innovator, while Marcus founded the Trophy Room sports store.
Jasmine worked for a time as a sports coordinator in the Charlotte Hornets franchise but soon went to work at Nike, as a representative of the Jordan brand.
The marriage began to fall apart in 2002 when the Jordans filed for divorce together. The reason was already then the insurmountable differences between them, but somehow they managed to smooth the relationship. The temporary smooth sailing lasted only four years when they filed for divorce again in late December.
- Michael and Juanita decided together to divorce after 17 years of living together - their lawyer told People at the time. She received $ 168 million in divorce, which was the most expensive celebrity divorce at the time.
Two years after the divorce, he met Yvette nightclub in Miami. According to the media, Michael fell in love at first sight, and after they met, they soon walked away.
The former basketball player waited three years to propose to Yvette. It all happened during the Christmas holidays of 2012, and soon, a few months later, the couple got married. In front of 300 guests in Florida, they organized an unforgettable celebration.
Michael and Yvette also had twins, daughters Victoria and Ysabel, shortly after the wedding. Since then, they don’t go out in public often and rarely talk about their relationship either.
By: Olivia J. - Gossip Whispers
