On Tuesday, as Larsa Pippen, 49, cuddled up to her lover Marcus, 32, the son of Michael Jordan, she revealed a ring on her engagement finger.
Michael, 60, and fellow NBA player Scottie Pippen, 58, who wed Larsa in 1997 and remained married until 2021, have been embroiled in a bitter feud.
Because of this, Larsa and Marcus’s relationship has been a persistent source of controversy ever since it started in September 2022.
This Tuesday, at a DIRECTV party hosted at Kathy’s in Los Angeles, the hot couple in show business looked stunning as they posed for pictures.
Larsa, a Real Housewife of Miami, made a bold entrance to the celebration by wearing a band adorned with jewels around her left index finger.
Larsa Pippen , 49, flashed a ring on her engagement finger as she cuddled up to her boyfriend, Michael Jordan ‘s son Marcus, 32, on Tuesday
In a move certain to attract attention, Larsa, a Real Housewife Of Miami, arrived at the fete with a jewel-encrusted band around her left hand ring finger
She flaunted her enviable shape in a shimmering silver sequined dress that hung to accentuate her body.
In the meantime, her toyboy wore a shimmering pewter suit without a tie, with a few of his top buttons temptingly undone across his chest.
A few months back, Larsa acknowledged that she was “traumatized” and “embarrassed” when Michael Jordan said he disapproved of her dating his son.
When asked if he supported the relationship this summer as he was leaving a restaurant in Paris, Michael laughed and replied, “No!”
In a later episode of Marcus and Larsa’s podcast, Separation Anxiety, the couple’s two halves discussed their raw reactions to Michael’s statement.
Marcus found Michael’s remark to be “hilarious,” but he was also laughing so hard because, as he put it, “I know my dad, right?”
However, Larsa “didn’t think it was funny,” “found nothing funny about it,” and appeared perplexed that Marcus could find comedy in the circumstance.
Marcus waggishly pointed out that the night of his father’s widely shared jab at Larsa, he might have been “a little lit” off tequila at the Paris restaurant Matignon.
The showbiz hot couple were a sight to see this Tuesday as they posed up a storm at a DIRECTV party thrown at Kathy’s in Los Angeles
She showed off her hourglass frame in a glittering silver sequined dress that fell in such a way as to emphasize her figure
Her toyboy meanwhile modeled a glinting pewter suit without a tie, leaving a few of his top buttons beguilingly undone over his chest
‘And so, you know, I didn’t put too much weight into it but I know that it made you a little nervous and so when he texted and called and obviously wanted to make sure we didn’t take things the wrong way I think it helped you feel a little more at ease.’
Larsa said she was ‘traumatized’ by the thought of people assuming she was ‘lying’ when she claimed her and Marcus’ families were ‘fine’ with the romance.
‘But I do understand that it’s not awkward for us to be together ’cause it’s us, but it probably is awkward for my ex and your dad,’ she conceded.
She insisted that neither she nor Marcus had any involvement with the bad blood between Michael and Scottie, but acknowledged that ‘for them it probably is weird’ and added that she ‘can’t be mad’ at Michael for his personal feelings.
Marcus meanwhile noted that he had holidayed with Michael’s family during his relationship with Larsa, and maintained that if they had cottoned onto any serious ‘red flags’ about her, they would have warned him.
Michael made his jab at Larsa while leaving the upscale Paris restaurant Matignon with his wife Yvette, who happens to be 16 years his junior.
Marcus then demonstrated how unfazed he was by proudly posting Insta Stories footage of him motorboating Larsa and smoking hookah from her cleavage during her 49th birthday party in a nightclub.
When the relationship took off late last year, Larsa’s ex-husband was feuding with Marcus’ father, his former teammate.
Michael (right) and Scottie (left) were legendary teammates in the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s, but their personal tensions were unearthed in the recent docuseries The Last Dance
In late November Larsa was attending a Chargers game with Marcus when she was heckled by a basketball fan who sniped: ‘Hey Larsa, that’s what you’re doing? You’re with the boy, Mike’s son?
Michael and Scottie were legendary teammates in the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s, but their personal tensions were unearthed in the recent docuseries The Last Dance.
Pouring fuel on the fire, Scottie slammed his portrayal on the show, grousing that he ‘was nothing more than a prop.’
Scottie further claimed that Michael did The Last Dance just to demonstrate to the world that he is ‘still larger than LeBron James,’ whom some basketball fans have taken to calling ‘the GOAT (greatest of all time).’