Posted on 04/08/2023 4:12:52 AM PDT by Libloather
An 18-year-old has reportedly been arrested for breaking into NBA legend Michael Jordan's $15million mansion in Chicago.
The 60-year-old Jordan was not in the property at the time, according to TMZ, but the teenager was found inside the building after neighbors alerted the police in the afternoon of Tuesday, April 4.
The teenager has been named as Raiden Hagerdorn by local media and has been charged criminal trespass and two counts of criminal damage to property.
Jordan has not lived at the property since 2012. He has been trying to sell it for 13 years, initially putting it up for sale for $29million. TMZ says its latest value is just under $15m.
The property has nine bedrooms. 19 baths, an indoor basketball gymnasium, pool, tennis court and cigar room.
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His mansion in Chicago was recently used for a video shot for the Travis Scott song 'Franchise'.
A mansion is not the only thing Jordan is trying to sell at the moment. His NBA team, the Charlotte Hornets, are also reportedly on the market.
He holds a majority stake in the team worth $1.7billion and is looking to sell after 13 years as owner of the franchise.
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Sounds like maybe he owes a lot of money.
19 bath rooms? That’s a lota crap..........
Yes, I do not disagree with you at all. I work in the maritime field - yachts - and see hypocrisy and brash, wholesale extermination of all things green by self-proclaimed environmentalists all the time. Not one can fix the engines they demand at full-throttle, or would deign to scar their hands with the chemicals we use to keep their possessions squeaky-clean. Leftists thrive on the deepest lies and most murderous and misery-inducing hypocrisies.
I have no “retirement” beyond minimal social security which I have been drawing for 13 years but I also never retired. I still work. My SS is enough to allow me to live on the couch in front of a TV and I have not had one of those for 35 years.
Well, don’t be depressed about it!
In Canada and other socialized-medicine countries, the State increasingly recommends suicide as a cost-effective measure.
They’ll pay for it, though, of course.
(Limits the population and helps the climate change problem and so on.)
“”would deign to scar their hands with the chemicals we use to keep their possessions squeaky-clean.””
Good example, that is the type of thing those of us who know the rich see all the time
I worked the So. Cal. coast and looking at the house on Two and a Half Men I wondered if people knew how much maintenance and replacement it takes to keep that beach house looking pristine and shiny in the ocean spray, and yachts are kept shiny and fresh.
That “island” has some lovely landscaping, by the way. Very green and circular.
“”19 bath rooms? That’s a lota crap..........””
Also a lot of piping and pumping to keep hot water constantly circulating to have instant hot water and who knows how many water heaters, and on-demand water heaters.
Landscaping. It was not possible for me to do my own yard maintenance unless I wanted to spend every weekend out there working at it full time. In fact, I had a koi pond with a waterfall in the front of my last home that cost nearly $2,000 a year to maintain. I had two big oil tanks that cost me hundreds of dollars every couple of months to keep filled so I could heat that massive place. I had the massive roof done at a cost of $35,000.
You also accumulate a lot of stuff when you have a big house. Most of which you don't need and will never use again. Like that top-of-the-line treadmill that I used a few times until my wife started using it to hang wet laundry from.
A few years ago we moved into a condo that was 1/3 the size of that house in square footage. Our utilities cost next to nothing. We are nice and snug in this condo, no clutter, everything we have here we use. We filled dumpsters full of junk before we came here.
People may envy others with big houses but I am not one of them and I'm glad to be rid of mine and living a simpler, less cluttered lifestyle.
Jordan has been living in desperation for 11 years?
One way to get free advertising.
Mansions.....monuments to self.
That’s all they are.
“The place looks like a dentist office. It’s a soulless concrete monstrosity with dead eyes. Random swoops combined with a massively unimpressive entry. Unless impressive is measured by sheer ton of concrete poured. It’s sad to see the design firm was working on a hospital plan for Integris when Jordan called. Imagine how much time the architect saved by converting his hospital plan for Jordan’s use! A spectacular efficiency! Michael Jordan I would guess he always wanted his own hospital.”
Great response. Raymond Chandler might have written it.
Last year, I met a builder who was working on a $40,000,000 home that was being built in the Hamptons. They were two years into the project and still hadn’;t hung a single sheet of drywall.
It was an amazing project to see, The mechanical room was about the size of my entire basement just for HVAC and plumbing.
Raymond Chandler that’s a great reference I reread my post and I definitely could find his voice! Very funny!
At least his Johnson is not magic…
I know those houses well and frequently look closely at the super California homes in movies and shows like Rockford to see if it was a house of one of my customers or friends, or of parties.
For some of my elderly customers with big homes and burdens like you describe who wanted to move, I suggested they find a nice condo and spend their house money from the sale to richly fix up the condo with all the imported marble and such, make their smaller simpler home’s interior as grand as they wished and still have money left over, think of the interior as their palace and not the burdens of the landscaping, and koi ponds and all that sort of thing.
I agree with you about house sizes, we should live in a home, cozy and warm, and of a size that fits you and your family and the stage it is at and your concepts of personal space which vary from person to person, a home not too large for the humans to make their imprint on it.
I have even told people that they need a little less maid service because their home looked too sterile and impersonal.
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