“Sold For $5000”: Teenage Michael Jordan’s Heartfelt Letters to High School Love Interest Reached Collectors’ Market in 2011 Following Outside Meddling

Back during his school days, Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan wrote a series of love letters for his then-girlfriend, Laqeutta Robinson. The two teenagers did not live in the same city, and MJ was speculated to have met her when he stayed with her family during one of his basketball trips. Regardless, years later in 2011, two of these letters were revealed to have made their way to a Collector’s auction, where they were about to be sold for more than $5000, according to Roland Lazanby’s Michael Jordan: The Life. The letters were eventually returned to Laquetta when she threatened legal action, claiming that they were personal to her.

Back in hightail, MJ was known to have been cut off from his Highschool school team when he was a sophomore. According to Bleacher Report, he was later said to have been simply dropped to the Junior team. Still, MJ was aghast and banked on Laquetta for support during this time.

MJ’s letters to her girlfriend fetched more than $5000 in Collector’s auction

According to Michael Jordan: The Life, Laqueta did not attend MJ’s school and lived in Goldsboro. The two were speculated to have met when Jordan stayed with her family during a basketball trip.

The two immediately took a liking to each other but were forced to continue living hundreds of miles apart. This led to MJ using letters as a means of communication, which he wrote during classes on papers torn from his school notebooks:

‌ What Michael did have that spring was that jewel of teen expectation, the junior[1]senior prom. Laquetta Robinson did not attend Laney but lived in Goldsboro. How they met is one of the many tightly clasped secrets of the Jordan legend. It seems logical that he first stayed with her family on one of his many baseball trips. In those days before texting they corresponded by the US Postal Service. Jordan wrote her many letters, each of them dashed off on notebook paper, as he sat bored in one class or another. She kept them all, as teenage girls are known to do, and years later two of the letters would appear on the collectors’ market after allegedly being purloined by one of her relatives. One of them surfaced in 2011 and sold for $5000, but when Laquetta complained, it was returned by the auction house, although not before the content made swift rounds across the Internet.”

According to the book, two of those letters were eventually stolen by one of Laquetta’s relatives. They somehow made their way to an auction, where one of them was about to fetch more than $5100.

Had it not been for Laquetta’s involvement, the letters would have been given to the highest bidder. However, she obviously associated a special significance to them and threatened legal action in order to get them back.

Michael Jordan’s teenage relationship came to light, years later

Laqueta and Michael Jordan dated back way before the latter had attained worldwide popularity. The two’s relationship came to light when Michael started dating Juanita Vanoy, after moving to the Bulls.

MJ met Vanoy at a restaurant in Chicago years after he had broken up with Laquetta. Jordan has largely kept his relationship history a secret, and details about his association with Laquetta emerged much later.

He is currently married to American model Yvette Prieto. Regardless, there is little doubt that he has had a few other long relationships that meant a lot to the NBA legend, once upon a time.