They were supposed to be the couple of the century. She was the singer that ruled over people’s hearts with her songbird voice. He left everyone impressed every time he was on the baseball diamond. Mariah Carey and Derek Jeter were two of the biggest names in the late 1990s and sent the masses into a frenzy with rumors of a romantic relationship. They may have been a short-lived couple but it was a monumental pop culture happening nevertheless.

The timeline is a little unclear, especially since Jeter has always been tight-lipped about anything other than baseball. But it was reported that the couple was together from 1997 to 1998. However, Carey had already been making a name for herself since the early 1990s. And Jeter was a fan.

Derek Jeter had always been a Mariah Carey fan

Celebrity crushes are normal to witness among people but they happen to other celebrities too; after all, they’re human. In her book, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the Songbird Supreme revealed some previously unknown facts about Jeter. While popular personalities cross paths all the time, the worlds of baseball and entertainment are completely different. However, Carey’s manager told her Jeter knew who she was and liked her music.

“My manager knew Derek really wanted to meet me; he had begged me once to sign a photo for “this kid who’s crazy about you” so he could get World Series tickets—an incident I totally forgot about,” the Queen of Christmas writes on page 172.

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Derek Jeter was in his early twenties when he started dating Carey while she was in her late twenties. But given the six-year age gap between them, perhaps calling him a ‘kid’ was justified. However, it was this same kid who helped her out tremendously.

Jeter did more for Carey than he could have imagined

The All I Want For Christmas is You singer got honest about a lot of things in her book, which was released in 2020. But before that, Carey revealed to Oprah that Jeter helped her get out of her abusive marriage to music executive Tommy Mottola. In The Meaning of Mariah Carey, she also wrote that Jeter was only the second man she had ever gotten intimate with. There were some jokes around the fact that the former Yankee used to wear jersey number 2.

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It was a different era in different times. No matter how much fans and well-wishers wanted otherwise, the couple split up soon. Today, Jeter is married to supermodel Hannah Davis with four kids, while Carey has two kids of her own. The ex-couple don’t often interact with each other in the media anymore, despite rumors stating they almost got married once.