Michael Jordan Found Love Again After His Expensive Divorce

Michael Jordan is the greatest. The NBA legend has six NBA championships, five MVP awards and 14 All-Star Game selections to his name, plus the billionaire Charlotte Hornets owner's net worth speaks for itself.Show more

MJ rose to stardom at North Carolina and for the Chicago Bulls. The superstar launched his own Jordan brand apparel under Nike and even starred in the iconic basketball movie Space Jam.

Jordan's Hall-of-Fame basketball career was portrayed in ESPN's docuseries "The Last Dance," which hit Netflix in July of 2020. The most famous basketball player of all time has maintained an unknown personal life off the court.

No. 23 has been married twice, but who are his first and second wives?

Jordan's ex-wife Juanita Vanoy was a few years older than he was when they met in Chicago, Illinois. Juanita was born in 1959 on the Southside of Chicago and worked as a model when she met the basketball superstar.

Vanoy worked as an executive secretary at the American Bar Association after modeling. Jordan's ex-wife headed the Michael and Juanita Jordan Endowment Fund and ventured into real estate later in her career.

Juanita met her future husband at a Chicago restaurant through a mutual friend in 1985 during Jordan's second season with the Bulls. Jordan wrote in his autobiography he admired Juanita because she waited for him to notice her instead of gushing over him.

Four years later in 1989, Jordan made Juanita basketball's First Lady when they tied the knot in Las Vegas while their first child, Jeffrey, was still a baby.

"The Last Dance" director Jason Hehir told The Athletic he intentionally left Vanoy out of the docuseries even though she was a major part of his career.

Jordan has three children from his first marriage -- two sons, Jeffrey and Marcus, and a daughter, Jasmine.

Jeffrey Jordan was born in 1988 and played college basketball for Illinois and UCF but didn't play professionally.

Marcus Jordan, born in 1990, also played for UCF. He once wore his dad's Nike Air Jordan shoes during a game despite UCF being signed with Adidas at the time. Adidas ended its sponsorship deal with the school but Nike signed UCF thanks to help from His Airness.

Jasmine Jordan graduated from Syracuse University, where she met basketball player Rakeem Christmas. The two made MJ a grandfather when they welcomed a baby in 2019.

Jordan and Juanita were married for 12 years before running into problems.

In 2002, they filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences" but salvaged their relationship for another four years. The NBA star couple officially parted ways in 2006.

Juanita received a $168 million divorce settlement, plus an undisclosed cash payment for the couple's Chicago home they shared during their 17-year marriage.

Vanoy now lives comfortably in the Kingsbury Estates section of Chicago in a $4.7 million house she bought in 2007.

Michael Jordan's Wife Yvette Prieto is who makes him happy now.

Prieto is Cuban and grew up in Miami, where she was a successful model for designers like Alexander Wang.

She was born in 1979, making her some 16 years younger than Jordan. Prior to meeting him, Prieto reportedly dated the brother of singer Enrique Iglesias, Julio Iglesias Jr.

Jordan's Cuban-American model wife reportedly caught his eye at a nightclub in 2008. Jordan and Prieto moved in together in 2009 and he popped the question in 2011.

The two eloped in 2013 near Jordan's home at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida. The wedding cost more than $10 million.

At the reception in Jupiter, Florida, Jordan and Yvette celebrated with athletes and celebrities like Tiger Woods, Spike Lee, Usher, Robin Thicke and Jordan's former NBA pal Scottie Pippen.

Jordan and Yvette welcomed identical twin daughters named Ysabel and Victoria in 2014.