Business Insider: Michael Jordan Sells Mansion After 12 Years of Looking for Buyer
Six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Michael Jordan has found a buyer for his Chicago mansion. The sale of this house has been dragging on for 12 years, recalls Business Insider.
Jordan lived in the luxurious Highland Park estate for 19 years and first put it up for sale in 2012 for $29 million. The following year, an auction was announced: to the athlete’s surprise, not even the minimum bid of $13 million was made during the bidding. Two years later, he lowered the price by more than $14 million, but this did not speed up the search for a buyer. The targeted approach also failed: intensive advertising did not spark interest in the Chinese basketball-obsessed rich. The marketing ploy of a full set of Air Jordan sneakers in addition to the house did not justify itself. All these years, the mansion remained empty. The long-awaited deal brought Jordan $14.9 million.
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The five thousand square meters house nine bedrooms and nineteen bathrooms. There are also several media rooms, a library, a piano and cigar room, and a large wine cellar. Jordan borrowed the doors from the first Playboy mansion in Chicago, and built a huge aquarium into the kitchen wall. The future owner can choose from a pool table, a gym, a swimming pool with a grassy island in the middle, a tennis court, a golf course, and a full-size basketball court.
The plot itself occupies 2.8 hectares. Near the house there is also another cinema-cabriolet with a 110-inch screen. A long driveway and trees protect the estate from prying eyes. In the yard there is a guest house with three bedrooms and a pond.
In addition, the former Chicago Bulls shooting guard owns another estate in Illinois, as well as mansions in Florida, Utah and North Carolina. Jordan’s latest purchase, a five-bedroom, 9,100-square-foot home, cost him $16.5 million.
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