Michael Jordan has long said that he doesn’t believe anybody other than him could fill his shoes when it comes to dealing with the off-court situations he gets put through. During his playing career with the Bulls and Wizards, MJ could not step foot outside of his house without 100s of fans pulling up for autographs and handshakes.
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During the ‘Last Dance’ docuseries, Jordan talked about how his life in the NBA consisted of constantly having to meet fans before and after games. While MJ was almost always courteous with his fans, he admitted that it was incredibly taxing for him to be so all the time.
Another after effect of his fame was the expectations that were put on his family. His wife, Juanita Vanoy, received quite a lot of notoriety during her marriage to the 6x NBA Champion despite not actually being the one who was in the league, leading to quite a few uncomfortable moments.
Juanita Vanoy on why her and Michael Jordan bought their Chicago mansion
Juanita Vanoy was and is quite the private person and rightfully so. Though, when she did go on to give interviews, she did so very eloquently. During one interview in 1992, she was asked about the home that her and her husband, Michael Jordan, were building at the time.
Vanoy would go on to reveal that this mansion of theirs in Highland Park was officially under construction. It would get built in 1994 and was lived in by Jordan for close to two decades.
Most would be under the belief that Vanoy and Jordan just wanted a better home to live in. Though, Juanita, in this interview, let it be known that they actually wanted to build this home to be secluded from the public.
Fans would constantly throng around their previous house and disturb their peace, asking for autographs and any of the kind. Regardless of how nice you are as a person, nobody wants to be disturbed at their own home. So, this move does make a lot of sense.
What are the specs for Michael’s Highland Park home?
Michael Jordan has been trying to sell this mansion of his for 10 years now with no luck. This is due to the fact that it is a highly personalized mansion catered to serve as a shrine for his career. The original asking price for the mansion was $29 million but since then, has dropped to lower than $14.9 million.
The mansion consists of 9 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms, a double grand staircase and is built upon 7.39 acres of private land. It also has quite the holy trifecta of sports lands, with those being a basketball court, golf course, and a tennis court.
