Michael Jordan’s Wife, Yvette Prieto: Everything You Need to Know
Michael Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is a former professional basketball player. He is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls. His biography on the official NBA website states: “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.”
In his 15 seasons old basketball career, Jordan played for Chicago and Washington Wizards. He holds so many basketball records in the NBA which are still hard to break. Apart from the NBA, he has won two Olympic Gold medals with the USA Basketball team. Michael Jordan’s first wife was Juanita Vanoy. The couple divorced in 2006 and what followed was one of the most expensive divorce settlements of all time. Vanoy and Jordan have three kids together.
Michale Jordan is currently married to Yvette Prieto. The couple met each other at a bar, one year after Jordan’s divorce from Vanoy. The couple moved in together in 2009 and married each other a year later. The couple married each other in Florida. After one year of marriage, the couple welcomed identical twin daughters Victoria and Ysabel.
Who is Yvette Prieto?
Yvette Prieto is an American-Cuban model who personally has a net worth of $5 million. Yvette Prieto was born in 1979 in Cuba to parents Carlos and Maria Prieto. She grew up in Miami with her parents and later became a model for some top designers in America such as Alexander Wang.
Before Prieto started dating Michael Jordan, she was dating famous singer Enrique Iglesias’ older brother Julio Iglesias Jr in 2003. After their breakup, Julio went on to marry model Charisse Verhaert. Then Prieto met Jordan at a nightclub. They married each other at Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida. The marriage ceremony was star-studded with celebrities like Usher and Robin Thicke singing at the reception. Tiger Woods, Spike Lee, and MJ’s former Chicago Bulls teammate, Scotty Pippen also attended the marriage ceremony in Florida. The marriage ceremony is rumored to have cost around $10 million.
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The couple has been together since then. On 9th February 2014, the couple welcomed twin daughters Ysabel and Victoria.
“Yvette and the babies are doing well and the family is overjoyed at their arrival,” Jordan’s rep told Us Weekly at the time.
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The couple has been staying out of the spotlight and off social media. The couple spends most of their time in Florida, where they live in a huge $20 million worth mansion. Jordan’s other three children with Vanoy, Jeffrey, Marcus, and Jasmine don’t stay with him. Jeffrey is handling the Jordan Avakian Group. Marcus has created his own shoe store in Disney World, which is now online. Jasmine works closely with Charlotte Hornets, Washington Wizards, and Dallas Mavericks. She is also a representative of Jordan’s shoe brand and the athletes in the NBA.
