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Ciara Finds Out She’s RELATED to Derek Jeter
For the 20 years he played shortstop for the New York Yankees, did anyone have the world at his feet more than Derek Jeter?
Winning five World Series rings during that stretch, the baseball star known as "Captain Clutch" and "Mr. November" was gifted with fame, hundreds of millions of dollars, 14 trips to the MLB All-Star Game and more female attention than any one man might know what to do with.
But, you know, he managed.
"A lot of people may have thought I was emotionally stunted when I was playing," Jeter, who's turning 51 on June 26, quipped to E! News in September 2023, recalling the cool exterior he was known for. "That's not the case, I just hid it well."
But he doesn't bother to hide his emotions when it comes to the impressive team he's fielding with his wife Hannah Jeter: Daughters Bella Raine, 7, Story Grey, 6, and River Rose, 3, and son Kaius Green, 2.
"The great thing with having kids is regardless of how your day went, most days they're happy to see when you come home," Jeter told E! News in March 2023, not letting on that Hannah was pregnant at the time with baby No. 4. "And that's a great feeling. Regardless of how good or bad your day was, your kids at this age are happy to see you. It doesn't get any better than that."
That, of course, is what a lot of admirers had to say about Jeter's former life.
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Throughout his playing career, despite being one of the biggest names in all of sports, let alone the official toast of NYC, he remained free of major scandals or anything else that could have tarnished the Yanks' beloved No. 2 legacy: No testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, no arrests or bombshell legal troubles, no messy divorce, no cheating scandals.
Despite being a renowned playboy, he was an inoffensive playboy, someone who enjoyed the spoils of his good fortune but not in a way that got publicly out of hand or made him the object of female scorn. Basically, Jeter was the face of the phrase "women want him and men want to be him."
And remaining a bachelor during his playing days only helped his cause.
"Don't get me wrong, it's not like I didn't go out and have fun," he told Esquire in 2011. "But there's been a lot of players that come to New York and get caught up in the lifestyle, and before you know it, they're sent away to another team because it affected their performance. My number one priority was on the field. I've had fun. It's not like I've never gone out; I've done a lot of things. But I've always kept sight of my number one priority."
Still, the tabloids used up plenty of ink on the athlete—and Jeter was careful not to read any of it.
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"I was always scared that I'd see my name and then scroll to see what they're saying," he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. "And I didn't want to deal with that when I was playing. I'd tell my family and friends, 'If you read something or hear something, don't tell me about it.' I didn't want to read negativity."
And ultimately his game plan—focus on work, play on the field, play the field, and then get serious when the game is over, when there's more time and less temptation—worked out perfectly. He and Hannah tied the knot on July 9, 2016, two years after he retired, and moved to Florida.
"Raising a family in Miami is definitely different than in New York," Jeter told Haute Living in 2019, just after Story was born, in a rare interview that touched on his non-business world—which at the time included being president and co-owner of the Miami Marlins. (He sold his share of the team in 2022.)
"It's nice," he continued, "because we're now in our own home, and it makes it easy to move around, play in the yard, enjoy the outdoors, etc. My wife loves living in Miami. My oldest daughter is heading into school somewhat soon, so we've begun the process of looking at schools. We're enjoying life and raising our family here."
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Hannah, 35, provided some insight as to why she and Jeter keep their family world so private, telling Editorialist in 2019 that, despite being a model who caught the eye of one of the most famous men in America, she never particularly enjoyed the public part of her public life.
"Both my husband and I have been in a place in our careers where we have to share so much," the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl said. "And we can handle it. But when you love something so much, you want to protect it more than anything in the world. And for me, that's my relationship, that's my kids."
Staying pretty quiet about personal matters certainly served her husband well back in the day.
As the face of the Yankees he was called upon to give sound bites about the game every night, questions he fielded as deftly as line drives—a few words here, a few there, never one of the guys known for outbursts or controversial comments. He was all business, all the time. And while he was reluctant enough to talk about himself as a baseball player, he was reliably silent when it came to his private life.
"You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge," Jeter told Sports Illustrated on the eve of his retirement in 2014. "Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer. Someone can take a picture and make a story, which has happened plenty of times, and twist it and turn it anyway they want to. You used to be able to go out...it's all I've known. I've been here since I was 20."
Jeter was drafted by the Yankees right out of high school in 1992 and made his major league debut on May 29, 1995—a decade before Facebook, Twitter and Instagram would rear their heads in succession, thereby forever changing what it's like to be a famous person, whether they add to the cacophony themselves or not.
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Jeter just got on social media a few years ago, saying in his May 31, 2022, introductory Instagram video that "time will tell" what he posts. The answer so far has been mostly business and sporting-life-adjacent content, and his son's birth announcement was just a name and date, no photo.
Hannah uses her accounts sparingly, and her Instagram only dates back to a post from the day her husband joined, a photo of Jeter as a child with the caption, "It’s never too late to be an influencer. You got this babe."
But Jeter wasn't sitting out of the game entirely: Wanting to give athletes a forum to tell their stories in their own words, Jeter launched The Players' Tribune in 2014, and it soon became a popular place for stars to break news as well.
Hannah, in fact, used the site in February 2017 to post, "The Derek I Know," an essay about the moment she realized her boyfriend was a really big deal.
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As a globe-trotting model herself since the age of 14, she was familiar with the toll that a demanding schedule can take on a personal life. When a friend introduced the Saint Thomas-born beauty to Jeter while she was out to dinner with her mom in New York, Hannah knew who he was but wasn't all caught up in the baseball thing. Luckily, she recalled, they met during the off-season and had a chance to spend real time together before he had to get back into game mode.
"And right from the start, I could tell that the timing of Derek's life and mine were aligned," she wrote, noting that despite being only in her early 20s, her job had caused her to grow up "really fast."
She added, "The truth is: Just as Derek had lived a whole life before he'd met me, I'd lived a whole life before I'd met Derek."
And that's good, because Jeter had lived not just a whole life, but what a lot of men would arguably consider to be the life.
Just a couple years removed from his rookie season, Jeter dated Mariah Carey for a year after they met at a 1997 charity gala.
"I think he's a great guy, I really do," Carey told Larry King on CNN in 2002. "And I really, really love his family. They really taught me something special, because coming from an interracial background, you know, you had the same type of background exactly."
Asked why they didn't stay together, she replied, "It just didn't work out."
But she did like dating someone who had the tendency to get mobbed in public as much as she did.
"It's like if we were in something that was more his world, there would be people that came up to me, as well," Carey recalled. "But me and him, if we were in another type of situation or in another, you know, place where baseball isn't the thing they would come to me. And I welcomed somebody else getting the attention. I'm, like, 'whoa, good for you!', you know what I mean? And he's very close to his family; it's fantastic. You know, I loved to spend time with his mother and sister and father."
Ultimately, she told Parade in 2005, "It was the wrong time. Our two worlds were just too much for that moment."
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In 2000, the rumor was that Jeter spied reigning Miss Universe Lara Dutta on Live With Regis & Kathie Lee and sent her some tickets to a Yankees game—but before she and her seat mate, Miss USA Lynnette Cole, got a chance to meet their benefactor after the game (during which Jeter hit a home run), Dutta got a headache and left.
"I've never seen her before," Jeter told the New York Daily News when questioned about the details, before promptly ending the interview. "That's it, I'm done."
He got to know Dutta at some point though, and he proceeded to wine and dine the beauty queen for almost a year before they parted ways.
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The following year, Jeter was linked to singer-actress Joy Enriquez—whom, legend has it, Alex Rodriguez had his eye on first when he unwittingly introduced her to his pal at the 2001 MLB All-Star Game.
"Obviously Derek is a great friend, and I have absolutely no reason to be upset about anything—that's crazy," A-Rod told the NY Daily News that August, giving them his "total blessing."
Moreover, he added, "I have a girlfriend, and I've had a girlfriend for a long time. I just want to get invited to the..." He paused before adding, "I don't have anything to say about that." (The girlfriend he mentioned was presumably his future wife Cynthia Scurtis, whom he married in 2002. They divorced in 2008.)
As for Jeter, all he had to say was, "They can write whatever they want."
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Meanwhile, though Jeter remained tight-lipped about his love life, he never suppressed his love of the New York Knicks, treating a parade of dates, including girlfriends Jordana Brewster and Vanessa Lachey (née Minnillo), to courtside seats at Madison Square Garden.
He reportedly was charmed by Brewster after seeing her in The Fast and the Furious and set out to meet her.
Such was the Jeter way.
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He and Brewster mutually parted ways in 2002, he dated Lachey the following year (publicly enough that they even made it onto a red carpet together), and then he was linked to Adriana Lima.
Then-New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey told Men's Journal in 2013, talking about Jeter, "That guy is the model. First off, let's just look at the women he's dated. Obviously, he goes out—he's meeting these girls somewhere—but you never hear about it. That's where I want to be."
Jessica Alba was linked to Jeter in 2004, but he was a free agent by 2005, when he was spotted shortly after New Year's with actress Stacy Lynn Spierer at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. When she told the NY Daily News that her boyfriend was involved in the charitable Secret Santa Project with her, she was asked if that boyfriend was Jeter.
"Oh, gosh," she replied. "I don't know what to say. I don't know what I'm allowed to say."
Jeter's privacy was legendarily important to him, so much so that friends said he would ask women he was interested in a variety of "what would you do in this situation?" questions as a test of their values. When he threw parties, he'd have guests check their cell phones and cameras at the door.
And he also apparently liked to be the one to make the first move.
"I'd see a supermodel at the top of her game try to get to Derek, and it never happened," R.D. Long, Jeter's roommate and teammate in the minor leagues, said in Ian O'Connor's 2011 biography The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter. "Just how she tried to do it didn't work for him."
Though some reports have her dating Justin Timberlake as early as January 2007, Jessica Biel was at that time basking in the sunshine in Puerto Rico while on vacation with Jeter during their brief fling.
In 2008, however, Jeter started dating Minka Kelly, and they got serious enough that even those close to him were expecting him to propose to Esquire's 2010 Sexiest Woman Alive at some point.
Asked by an Esquire writer for a March 2011 profile what he'd be doing later in the day, Jeter smiled and said, "I'm probably going to go home and watch a movie. I'm going to watch The Roommate. It's a new one. Just came out today. Go check it out." (The Roommate starred Kelly as a young woman being terrorized by her roomie, played by Leighton Meester.)
Jeter and Kelly went to Paris together, she sat in the stands at countless Yankee games and even rode on the 2009 World Series parade float. And, like Carey all those years before, Kelly got to know Jeter's parents, Dorothy Jeter and Sanderson Charles Jeter. She was sitting with them when their son collected his 3,000th hit in 2011, barely a month before they broke up for good.
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Jeter is very close to his mom, dad and sister Sharlee Jeter, who's president of her brother's Turn 2 Foundation, and chose to have the Yankees retire his No. 2 purposely on Mother's Day in 2017.
"I have a very special relationship, not only with my mother, but with my whole family," he explained to Newsday. "I chose Mother's Day and the first thing my dad said was, 'What are we going to do on Father's Day?' But my mom especially has been very supportive ever since I was younger, but not just playing baseball. It was with anything that me or my sister wanted to do where she was very supportive. So I thought it would be nice to have this special day on Mother's Day to honor her and all that she's meant not only to my career, but she helped shape who I am today."
After he and Kelly split up in 2011, Jeter stayed single for awhile—and at 37 he showed fresh life on the field, batting .411 through April 23, 2012, and finishing the season with the most hits (216) in the majors that year.
"I keep kidding him that it's like 1999 again—three hits every day. He's amazing," Rodriguez told reporters that April about his resurgent teammate. Added the Yankees then-manager Joe Girardi, "He's playing like he's 25."
A new spring in his step, he put rumors of his imminent retirement to rest. But he was starting to think about life after baseball—never more so than when he met Hannah Davis.
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As the future Mrs. Jeter would later say, the timing was just right, and Jeter proposed in October 2015, a year after he turned the page on his prolific career.
Though they didn't shun the spotlight entirely, the two were on the same page about wanting their privacy. "I feel like I have to share every other part of my life," Hannah told Maxim in early 2016. "It's that one part that's a little bit of a mystery to people, but that's the way we want it. The only way to protect it is not to talk about it."
Asked what attracted her to Captain Clutch, she said, "Trying to impress you with material things? I think that's lame. I wanted someone whose family is a big, important part of their life."
Jeter confirmed their engagement on The Players Tribune in November 2015 in the form of a reference to his "fiancée," whose name he never used, in a post about his relationship with the Italian Mastiff named Kane that Hannah had given him for Christmas the previous year. He had always been afraid of dogs, he wrote, ever since seeing Cujo as a kid.
And sure enough, the heartfelt post also served as a metaphor about post-retirement life.
"Being a 'dog owner' is still new to me," Jeter admitted. "A little challenge is probably good. I guess it's possible to learn new tricks."
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Her wife, agrees, noting how captivated she was by Harris' easy confidence. "I think I was more myself when I hung out with her, and that's when I knew she would become someone important in my life."
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(Originally published Aug. 19, 2017, at 6 a.m. PT)
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