Larsa Pippen spent nearly a quarter-century known primarily as Scottie Pippen’s wife before she built a reality-TV identity that stands on its own. She has been a main cast member of a Real Housewives franchise since its first season, dated the son of another basketball legend on camera, and played a short, combustible run on The Traitors Season 2.
Her path into the Bravo universe started with a marriage that made her famous long before any show existed.
Marrying Scottie Pippen
Larsa Younan married Chicago Bulls champion Scottie Pippen in 1997, and the two divorced in 2021 after roughly 24 years together. They share four children: Scotty Jr., Preston, Justin, and Sophia. The marriage and its long, public unraveling gave Larsa a level of built-in tabloid familiarity that most reality-TV newcomers never get, and it shaped how audiences approached her the moment she joined Bravo.
Joining The Real Housewives of Miami
Larsa has been an original cast member of The Real Housewives of Miami since the franchise’s debut in 2011, making her one of the longer-tenured personalities across the entire Housewives ecosystem. She remained a main cast member through the show’s seventh season, which aired in 2025, known for a blunt, outspoken style and close friendships with several of her castmates.
Dating Marcus Jordan on The Traitors
Larsa entered Season 2 of The Traitors with boyfriend Marcus Jordan, son of Michael Jordan, making the two the first real-life couple to compete together on the American version of the show. She played as a Faithful and quickly became known for being highly involved in castle politics. When the Traitors murdered Marcus in Episode 3 specifically to break up the couple’s influence, Larsa pushed hard to find out who was responsible. That aggressive push backfired: her castmates saw her as playing too hard, and she was banished the following episode.
Splitting from Marcus, and Life Now
Larsa and Jordan’s relationship continued on and off after filming before the two confirmed their split was final in 2024. She has said in interviews since that she isn’t looking to date anyone new right now. Inside the castle, she bonded with fellow Housewives castmates Tamra Judge and Phaedra Parks, a friendship that carried past the show itself. Between raising four kids, a long-running Bravo role, and a brief but memorable Traitors appearance, Larsa has kept her name in circulation well past the point most reality-TV newcomers fade out.