A 20-page love letter that Michael Jordan once wrote to actress Amy Hunter was recently auctioned off for $25,703. The letter was first sold in 2014 for $2,560. Its value increased because of the ESPN docu-series ''The Last Dance.''
The note was postmarked from Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 11, 1989. However, it's likely Jordan composed the letter months earlier, as it was written on stationary from the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in Troy, Michigan — where Jordan's Chicago Bulls stayed during the 1989 Eastern Conference Finals that May.
Jordan's note to Hunter — who was 23 years old at the time and living in New York — has changed hands twice prior to its $25,000+ sale. Seventeen years ago, Hunter sold it to a private collector, according to auctioneer Jeff Woolf. Then, in 2014, the letter sold $2,560.
The newspaper claims Jordan allegedly had an affair with Hunter and wrote: “Amy, sometimes I am the most selfish person on this earth because for one whole year all I thought about was Michael. I admit I made a mistake, but found it difficult to change it. Let’s say I do change the mistake. You would not believe the problems we would encounter. It is unthinkable. We wouldn‘t have a pleasant relationship or a private one. Our business up for opinions by the whole world. This is a pressure I can’t live with. Amy, if I was Michael Jordan, the ordinary man with a 9 to 5 job, then it wouldn’t be hard to admit my mistake. But instead, I am the Michael Jordan who is put on the pedestal and viewed to be the perfect role model. A lot of people, not just kids, but whole families. Can you imagine the responsibilities I have to deal with. Not to mention a baby by a lady who I have loved for 3 1/2 years,” suggesting he was being unfaithful in his relations with Hunter.
"Amy, if I was Michael Jordan, the ordinary man with a 9 to 5 job, then it wouldn't be hard to admit my mistake," Jordan wrote. "But instead, I am the Michael Jordan who is put on the pedestal and viewed to be the perfect role model. A lot of people, not just kids, but whole families. Can you imagine the responsibilities I have to deal with."
Jordan then described feeling like a "kid in the candy store" in that he wanted to be in a relationship with both Hunter and Vanoy.
"Amy the perfect solution for this would be to move to Utah and practice polygamy, but our society would accept and neither would I," he wrote. "So what do you do. I tried to establish a friendship but it's hard to be in love with someone and be their friend. I understand it too painful but does that mean we must hate each other and don't speak. I hope not. I could never find it in my heart to hate you.
"Amy I love you so much!!! Well I know this was long but I think you deserve a long letter. It's so much more I want to say but I tire of writing plus there's no more paper," Jordan added. "Amy, I will always love you until the day I die!!" on the back of the final page.
Jordan eventually went on to marry, and later divorce, Vanoy. He's since remarried, wedding Yvette Prieto in 2013.
