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Michael Jordan Flew His Family to Sardinia Aboard His $500,000 Jumpman Jet Before Docking His $115 Million Yacht at Italy’s Most Exclusive Marina

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This is what retirement looks like when you’re the richest athlete alive and on a yacht in Italy.

Michael Jordan spent the week parked in Porto Cervo, the guarded corner of Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda where the ultra-rich go to not be seen.

A bald man in a white t-shirt and blue UNC basketball shorts smokes a cigar while standing on the deck of a large yacht.
Cigar in hand, Jordan stands on the yacht’s deck wearing blue UNC-logo shorts as he takes in the Sardinian scenery during his summer 2026 European holiday. Photo by Backgrid.

The boat is the M’BRACE, his 74.5-meter, $115 million superyacht, bought in late 2022 and cheap to run only if you consider $5-11 million a year cheap. He got there on his custom Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N236MJ. The 23 is his jersey, the 6 is his championships, and the MJ speaks for itself.

A bald man in sunglasses and a white t-shirt sits in a deck chair on a luxury yacht, resting his chin on his hand.
Seated on the deck of his mega yacht in Sardinia, Michael Jordan relaxes in sunglasses and a white tee during a July 2026 family getaway in Italy. Photo by Backgrid.

Forbes has him at $4.3 billion as of 2026, up from $3.8 billion the year before, still the richest athlete in history by a wide margin. The engine is Jordan Brand at Nike, which has been clearing $6.5 to $7.3 billion in annual revenue and putting an estimated $200 million-plus into his pocket every year on royalties alone. Selling his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets in 2023, in a deal that valued the franchise around $3 billion, is what kicked the net worth into a new gear.

Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto sitting courtside at a Charlotte Hornets game in November 2015
Michael Jordan and wife Yvette Prieto courtside at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte during a November 2015 Hornets home game. Photo by Streeter Lecka / Getty Images.

The yacht isn’t the only fleet. He runs a serious sportfishing operation under the Catch 23 name, including an 82-foot custom Bayliss in the $12 to $15 million range that’s held its own at the White Marlin Open. Home base is a 28,000-square-foot compound in the Bear’s Club in Jupiter, Florida, plus a second house he added in the same community for around $17 million in 2024.

Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto at the Cincoro Tequila launch event at CATCH Steak in New York City
At CATCH Steak in New York City, the Cincoro Tequila launch on September 18, 2019 drew attendees including Michael Jordan and his wife Yvette Prieto. Photo by Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images.

On board in Sardinia were his wife Yvette, their 12-year-old identical twins Victoria and Ysabel, and his father-in-law Carlos Prieto Sr. The twins were born in February 2014, and this is the branch of the family Jordan travels with now. His three older kids from his marriage to Juanita Vanoy (Jeffrey, 37, Marcus, 35, and Jasmine, 33) weren’t along for the trip.

Michael Jordan watching practice at Kansas Speedway during the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 in Kansas City, Kansas
NBA Hall of Famer and 23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan watches from the pit area during practice for the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on April 18, 2026. Photo by David Jensen / Getty Images.

Paparazzi caught Jordan and Carlos Senior parked on deck with cigars while everyone else kept low.

The family posted nothing. Yvette keeps these trips off her private Instagram and Michael doesn’t post on social media.

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