THE FUSE

The man who has spent a career mastering the art of ownership owns one asset that refuses to cooperate. In the spring of 2026, days after Michael B. Jordan collected the Academy Award for best actor, his agents quietly cut the asking price on his Encino mansion again, down to $10.495 million, more than $2 million below what he had paid for it four years earlier. The Oscar made him more bankable than he had ever been. The house in the San Fernando Valley still would not move.