The basketball icon is currently married to Yvette Prieto
Michael Jordan’s decades-long career as the king of the basketball court is world renowned. Outside of his life with the Chicago Bulls and short spell with the Washington Wizards, the star has been married twice, has five children, and is also a grandparent.
Michael’s life and career was explored in the Netflix documentary The Last Dance, but neither his first nor second wife appear in the series after its director Jason Hehir said he “wasn’t interested in the opinion of any wife or kids”. So, who are they? And what is there to know about the famous basketballer’s love life? HELLO! has all the info below…
Who is Yvette Prieto?
Michael Jordan is currently married to 44-year-old Yvette Prieto. The New York City-born basketball player met the Cuban-American model who is 16 years his junior at a nightclub around a year after he finalized his divorce from his first wife, Juanita Vanoy, in December 2006.
Yvette and Michael moved in together in 2009 and got engaged at Christmas two years later. In April 2013, the pair tied the knot in Florida, with a ceremony rumored to have cost more than $10 million and guests including Tiger Woods, Usher and Robin Thicke.
Rather than requesting any gifts or donations towards their future life together, the already billionaire couple collected for charity. Money raised went to the education focused James R. Jordan Foundation which was named in honor of Michael’s father, and Michael and Yvette also donated their wedding flowers to the Jupiter Medical Center in Florida.
In February 2014, Yvette and Michael welcomed their identical twin daughters Ysabel and Victoria.
Is Michael still with Yvette?
Yes! The couple are still an item after over ten years of marriage, and almost 15 years of being together. Though they keep their personal lives as private as possible and avoid social media, both have been spotted hanging out together through their friends’ channels.
In July 2023 it was revealed the couple had been vacationing in Capri, Italy, along with several other famous couples including Samuel L Jackson and his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Earvin ‘Magic Johnson and his wife Earlitha ‘Cookie’ Kelly.