Michael Jordan's wife files for divorce


Michael and Juanita

(just shakes head) @ the situation......

This is truly sad; but hey, it happens to the best of us.

I rest my case.

(throws in the towel)
 



I'm talking to one of my boys now on AOL. This just came up in the conversation:

<b>Kobe, I ain't mad at 'cha!!</b>

Yall know what we're talking about!!


This is a shame!! I already have a bad opinion of marriage. This lowers it even more!!
Apparently, the "irreconcilible differences" might be the fact that he is playing basketball again!! That's the reports that I'm hearing!!
 
Got's to be more Careful

http://www.pagesix.com/celebritynews/8372.htm
PRIVATE EYE TAILED JORDAN FOR 4 YEARS
By JEANE MacINTOSH and ANDY GELLER
A Chicago private eye tailed Michael Jordan for four years before his wife filed for divorce Friday, The Post has learned.
The P.I. followed the hoopster from Chicago to Florida and back, spotting him in public places with at least six woman, a source close to his wife, Juanita, told The Post.

The detective's legwork came to light after Juanita filed papers against her husband of 12 years, one of the richest athletes in sports.

"She said, ?Enough already,' " said Juanita's pal Stella Foster, a Chicago Sun-Times columnist, when asked why Juanita threw in the towel.

Citing irreconcilable differences, Juanita, 42, filed for divorce from the 38-year-old hoops legend Friday in Waukegan, Ill., near the sprawling, 25,000-square-foot Highland Park mansion she shares with her three children - Jeffrey, 13, Marques, 11, and Jasmine, 9.

Since Jordan began playing for the Washington Wizards last fall, he has been living in the couple's apartment in Chicago's Old Town section, north of The Loop.

Juanita is seeking custody of the kids, possession of the mansion, an "equitable" share of their marital property, and a "fair and reasonable sum" for temporary and permanent maintenance.

Jordan would be granted visitation rights with his children.

Jordan had little comment.

"When you have personal issues, sometimes work is a great avenue to deal with it and move on. Things will work out in the long run," he said after practice yesterday.

His agent, David Falk, issued a statement for the couple yesterday:

"It is our hope that the media and the public will understand and respect our family's desire and need for privacy during this difficult period in our lives."

Ironically, the romance of Juanita Vanoy and Michael Jeff Jordan began with a paternity suit.

Juanita met His Airness at Bennigan's restaurant in Chicago in 1988, during his second season with the Bulls.

She got pregnant during the relationship and slapped him with a paternity suit.

"He fought her tooth and nail. She wanted to serve him with papers as he walked on the [basketball] court," said the source close to Juanita.

But the basketball superstar suddenly did an about-face that nullified the paternity suit.

He whisked Juanita off to Las Vegas to marry him. They tied the knot in the Little White Wedding Chapel on Sept. 2, 1989.

In the years that followed, Jordan earned much of his fortune, estimated at $398 million by Fortune magazine.

He bought the Highland Park mansion and a downtown Chicago apartment.

He buys custom-tailored shirts - monogrammed with "Michael" or "MJ" - at $100 a clip, and owns a private jet.

Last April, he used the jet to fly his family down to the Turks and Caicos Islands for a vacation.
 
First Puffy.......
Now Mike!!!

I'm like you Antroy.......I'm really starting to believe that the norm of the millenium is to NOT BE MARRIED!!!

Our generation just doesn't seem to mesh well, especially when it comes to the relationship thang.....

I may have found her (even though I don't have her right now! :( ) but till the day comes that I truly know that I want to settle down and say "This is it"......the single life for me!!!! :D

(Taking Piggy-Bank.......burying it in the back-yard........)
 
Michael's success pushes marriage past breaking point

Michael's success pushes marriage past breaking point

January 9, 2002


BY BRYAN SMITH AND JANET RAUSA FULLER STAFF REPORTERS

After threatening to divorce Michael Jordan three times, Juanita Jordan finally followed through when it became clear that the success of his basketball comeback would continue to keep him away from his family, someone close to the couple said Tuesday.

The all-time Bulls great had promised her after his second retirement that he wouldn't return, and when he changed his mind, it was against Juanita Jordan's wishes, the source said.



With Jordan leading the Wizards to their best start in years, and the prospect of them making the playoffs suddenly the subject of serious conversation, Jordan has started talking about possibly continuing to play next year, maybe even beyond that.


For Juanita Jordan, who had endured years during which her husband was away from home for long stretches and had heard promise after promise to stay at home more, that was the last straw, said the source, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity.


At a Washington Wizards practice on Tuesday, Jordan spoke briefly about the pending divorce. ''When you have personal issues, sometimes work is a great avenue to deal with it and move on," Jordan said. ''Things will work out in the long run.''



Through her lawyer, Juanita Jordan declined to comment.


"It's sad, but I'm not surprised,'' said a close friend of Juanita Jordan, who filed for divorce Friday in Lake County Circuit Court in Waukegan, citing ''irreconcilable differences.'' "It's hard enough for anyone to stay married, but here you have a high-profile couple, with a woman married to a man who is bigger than the pope. . . . It's going to tear at the seams of any marriage.''



The couple met at a party, introduced by a friend. Juanita Vanoy was a beautiful young professional with a smile that ignited a room. Michael Jordan was on the cusp of fame and riches and recognition as the best in his sport, perhaps any sport.



Their first date was at a Bennigan's downtown, on Michigan Avenue.



At the time, she was working at the Chicago Sun-Times. Jordan would come by on occasion, waiting in the newspaper's second-floor break room for her to finish work.



"She was never starstruck,'' said the friend. "Even now, she's not starstruck. They dated for a couple of years and had a little breakup, just before they got back together and got engaged.''



With a few friends on hand, they got married Sept. 2, 1989, at the Little White Chapel on the Las Vegas strip.



"It was about 3:30 a.m., and two taxicabs pulled up to the chapel," the chapel's proprietor-chaplain, Charlotte Richards, later recalled. "One guy got out, came into the chapel and looked around to see if the coast was clear. The chapel was empty. He asked if we could perform a wedding. My chaplain on duty said, 'Sure.' So the bride and her girlfriend and the groom and another young person came in."



In public, they seemed like a happy couple.



But Jordan's travel and time away from home placed a strain on the relationship, people close to them said. The two had been living apart this year after Jordan decided to make a second comeback as a player, this time with the Wizards. He had already been spending extended time away in Washington, D.C., after taking over two years ago as part-owner and president of basketball operations for the Wizards. His wife and their three children--Jeffrey, Marcus and Jasmine--remained in Highland Park, though they reportedly visited him often in Washington.



Throughout their marriage, Juanita Jordan threatened divorce three times, the source said, but each time Michael talked her out of it.



In December, he came back to Chicago, saying he needed treatment for his ailing knees, but mostly it was to try to placate his wife, who didn't want him being away for so long, the source said. He told her he would do that all season as a way to be with her, the source said.



The Wizards were struggling then, and it seemed unlikely that Jordan's comeback would extend beyond one season, if that. But within a few weeks, Jordan put together back-to-back games in which he scored 51 points and 45 points, and helped the team to a winning streak that's lifted them to near the top of their division.



Jordan started talking about sticking around longer, and his wife realized that basketball was going to be the main focus of his life for the foreseeable future, the source said.



The relationship had survived other rocky moments.



The couple broke up briefly when Juanita Vanoy was pregnant with the couple's first child. They married after she filed a paternity suit against him in 1988.



In his 1998 autobiography For the Love of the Game, Jordan said: "There was a reason for me getting married and having children. That experience of being a husband and a father provided a balance and a focus away from basketball. I could have gotten myself in trouble, I don't know what kind of trouble, but if I had been single, playing basketball, and making a lot of money, I could have made some wrong decisions.''



As the years wore on, he acknowledged the burden of a relationship in the spotlight.



"I learned what it was like . . . to have your life put under a magnifying glass for the purpose of exposing some deep dark secret or to find that one indiscretion that would knock me off the pedestal others had created for me,'' he wrote in his autobiography.



In her divorce suit, Juanita Jordan said she will seek an "equitable" settlement of the couple's assets--which Fortune magazine estimated in September are worth $398 million--as well as sole custody of the couple's children and possession of their 25,000-square-foot house in Highland Park.



They had a post-nuptial agreement that could limit the amount of what she is entitled to, signed by the couple three years after their marriage, said lawyer Michael H. Minton, who represented Juanita Jordan at that time. There was no mention of the agreement in the divorce papers, but Michael Jordan could bring up the agreement if he contests the divorce.
 
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