For obvious reasons, it’s nearly impossible to tell stories about Juanita Vanoy without bringing in Michael Jeffrey Jordan, the acclaimed greatest basketball player of all time. While Juanita Vanoy is known as a former model, she is best known as the former wife of the retired professional basketball player.
At 29, Vanoy and Jordan had their first child, a son they named Jeffrey Michael Jordan. He was born on November 11, 1988. Two years later, on December 24, 1990, Vonoy gave birth to their second son – Marcus James Jordan. She also gave birth to her third child, a girl called Jasmine Mickael Jordan at the age of 33. Jasmine was born on December 7, 1992.
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Juanita Vanoy Biography
We know that Juanita Vanoy was born on June 13, 1959 in Chicago where she was raised. She came to the public’s attention when it emerged that she was going to marry MJ. Although it was circulated that Jordan’s parent disliked the relationship, Juanita married Micheal in September 1989.
Before rising to fame as Jordan’s wife, Juanita was a model. It is said that her modeling career started when she was just a teenager. She did several modeling jobs before securing the position of Executive Secretary of the American Bar Association. She then decided to go into real estate.
Vanoy would later divorce Micheal. Before that, she and the ex-NBA star founded a charity known as the Michael and Juanita Jordan Endowment Fund.
Juanita Vanoy Parents, Spouse, Divorce
Apart from knowledge about the birth of Juanita and growing up in South Chicago, not much is known about her family. Vanoy and Jordan had two sons and a daughter before abandoning their marriage.
Juanita and Micheal first met at a restaurant in Chicago. They met again after several weeks at a party with friends. This time they decided to spend even more time together. They became lovers and Micheal finally proposed to Juanita in 1987. She was 4 years older than Jordan but that was no problem. They married in Las Vegas in the presence of their first child who was then only 10 months old.
In 2002, the couple filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. Fortunately, they overcame the problem and stayed married. A few years later, they filed for divorce again after mutually agreeing to end the 17-year marriage. This time they obtained the dissolution of the marriage decree. It was in December 2006.
The marriage is believed to have failed because of Jordan’s alleged former lover Karla Knafel. Before Juanita and Jordan officially split in December 2006, it was claimed the basketball player paid Knafel $250,000 to keep his relationship with her a secret. While Knafel insisted that Jordan is the father of her child and promised him $5 million to keep it quiet, a DNA test cleared Jordan.
Nothing is known about Juanita Vanoy’s love life since she divorced Jordan. However, it was generally assumed that she was still single and had never been in love with anyone. Meanwhile, we know that Jordan had something special with Yvette Prieto. He dated the model for five years before getting married on April 27, 2013 in Palm Beach, Florida. Later that year, in November, it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child. The following year, on February 11, it emerged that Yvette Prieto gave birth to identical twin girls. Their names were Victoria and Ysabel.
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Fortune of Juanita Vanoy
Everyone wanted to know what is Juanita Vanoy’s net worth after she and Jordan decided to go their separate ways. That’s because it was reported that she was awarded a $168 million settlement following the dissolution of the marriage; an amount considered the biggest celebrity divorce settlement. In fact, Forbes ranked Juanita’s split from her husband of 17 years No. 1 on its list of The 10 Most Expensive Celebrity Divorces.
Beyond the $168 million settlement the former model received, she won custody of their three children and was also the heiress to a seven-acre mansion in Chicago. Since receiving the settlement, she has been involved in real estate business. And, it has been stated that the value of his wealth is $170 million.
