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Gulf Craft's Majesty 122 showcased in Yacht Premiere magazine

Gulf Craft's Majesty 122 is featured on the latest issue of the Yacht Premiere magazine (Issue 36) with a very generous 24-page spread entirely dedicated to this opulent superyacht.

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With an unbroken history of more than 30 years in the business since it was founded in the United Arab Emirates in 1982, Gulf Craft currently has four manufacturing sites plus a new one in the final phases of completion in Dubai. Among Gulf Craft’s numerous brands, Majesty Yachts is its luxury flybridge motor yacht brand, specializing in the production of superyachts and yachts in a luxurious range of models with lengths of up to 155 feet, or 47 metres, built in FRP composite with semi-custom fittings.

As always, in March this year Gulf Craft was one of the stars of the Dubai International Boat Show, presenting many of its prestigious vessels under the flagship Majesty Yachts brand including the Majesty 135 and Majesty 122 . The event was the latter’s world debut after her recent launch. It is a particularly important event for the Emirati shipyard, which has found an apt setting for its yachts in the elite context of this major global show, as Mohammed Al Shaali, co-founder and Chairman of Gulf Craft, emphasised with considerable satisfaction: “The Dubai International Boat Show is a key international platform for launching our latest yachts and boats to the world.

Boating is a lifestyle, it’s about an opportunity to spend quality time with friends and family, and making that time memorable. By globally launching the Majesty 122 in Dubai, where people have a true appreciation of the seagoing lifestyle, we continue to bring all that experience to our customers.”

With a strategic awareness of the complex, varied nature of the current nautical market, he added: “We understand that everyone experiences boating differently, and that is why we have a wide range of yachts and boats on display.”

During the show, the keen interest shown by the select public in the many vessels Gulf Craft had on display fully confirmed Al Shaali’s comments, which were further echoed by Erwin Bamps, CEO of Gulf Craft: “Gulf Craft’s display at this year’s Dubai International Boat Show demonstrates our commitment to innovation, using customer insights and aspirations as the motivation behind our creations.

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Vin Diesel Supports Tyrese Gibson at ‘1992’ Premiere: ‘Nothing More Important Than Family’

Vin Diesel may live his life one quarter-mile at a time, but he still makes time for family.

The action star, 57, surprised his friend and Fast and Furious costar Tyrese Gibson at the Tuesday, August 27, premiere of Gibson’s new movie, 1992 . Gibson, 45, couldn’t hide his emotion, breaking down into tears and giving his pal a long hug.

When asked why it was important for him to come out and support Gibson, Diesel told Us Weekly that he wouldn’t dream of doing anything less.

“Isn’t that something we should always strive for? I’m just lucky that I can do this,” Diesel explained at the Los Angeles event, which took place at Regal LA Live. “I’m lucky that I have a moment to show the world that above all, there is nothing more important than family. I said it and I meant it.”

Gibson made his Fast and Furious debut in 2 Fast 2 Furious , which hit theaters in 2003. Diesel wasn’t in that one, but the pair finally shared the screen in 2011’s Fast Five . They have since starred together in all the subsequent sequels, including last year’s Fast X .

Earlier this year, Diesel confirmed that the franchise will end with an 11th movie , which he has described as part two of Fast X .

Related: Everything the 'Fast and the Furious' Cast Has Said About the Franchise Ending

“Just finished our end of the week Fast meeting with the writers and the whole team,” he wrote via Instagram in February. “To say the excitement for our finale was incredibly powerful is an understatement. Wow. So exciting.”

Gibson, meanwhile, has said that he thinks the final film will premiere in 2025. “I think right now the pressure is to elevate the movie and take the film to some other levels,” he told CBR in April . “As you’ve seen, Gal Gadot and The Rock are back, which is exciting.”

For now, however, Gibson is focused on 1992 , which also stars Scott Eastwood and features the late Ray Liotta in his final onscreen role. When asked to describe the film in just three words, Gibson couldn’t contain himself.

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“ 1992 is heart, it’s a heist, and it’s Ray Liotta in conflict with Scott Eastwood,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “I’m in conflict with my son. And this is the biggest movie dropping Labor Day weekend. Is that three words?”

1992 premieres in theaters on Friday, August 30.

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ICE YACHTS: at the Cannes Yachting Festival with two out-of-the-ordinary sailing yachts

• Luca D'Ambrosio
• August 22, 2024

The upcoming Cannes Yachting Festival will be an extraordinary event for ICE YACHTS, once again showcasing the tremendous energy with which this shipyard is progressively capturing an increasingly wide audience.

In fact, there will be two world premieres on display: the ICE 66 RS and the ICE 53 ST, two exceptional sailing yachts that are arriving at the most important boat show of the season with features that calling innovative would be an understatement, and which we had the pleasure of testing in advance.

But let’s proceed in order and discover together why these ICE YACHTS vessels are so interesting.

ICE YACHTS – ICE 66 rs

This sailing yacht marks the beginning of ICE YACHTS’ collaboration with an extraordinary team. The naval architecture and hull lines were masterfully created by Farr Yacht Design, while the incomparable beauty of the interior and exterior design is the work of the brilliant Lucio Micheletti, who, as you will see, has designed something truly unique.

“It was the first, but it certainly won’t be the last project we entrust to this amazing team – said Marco Malgara, president of ICE YACHTS – We believe that the new ICE 66 RS will soon account for about a third of our revenues, thanks also to the growth of sales in North American markets”.

“ICE 66 RS is a luxurious vessel, characterized by an interior design dedicated to the most refined tastes – commented Ingrid Maria Torres, creative director of ICE YACHTS – This new creation of ours satisfies those who are not content with excellence in technique and performance but also seek the utmost in furnishings and finishes”.

LINK TO THE ICE 66 RS SEA TRIAL

A miracle that ICE YACHTS has made possible thanks to a transformation kit that allows the yacht to switch from a racing configuration to a cruising one in just a few hours . This is done by replacing the floorboards, cabin doors, kitchen, saloon table, cushions, and mattresses. The entire kit fits in a small van (or the marina’s garage), making it easy to switch from the luxurious (and heavier) materials of the cruising version to the lightweight materials of the racing version, remarkably keeping the weight of this 16-meter yacht to just 10 tons.

ICE YACHTS has built the new 53 ST entirely from carbon, using quadraxial and unidirectional fibers, a technique that involves a three-step infusion of epoxy resin, laminated over a closed-cell PVC core.

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ICE YACHTS AT THE CANNES YACHTING FESTIVAL

You can find ICE YACHTS on display at Port Canto, and as a personal suggestion, given the success of these two yachts, I recommend booking a visit on board to fully enjoy them at your leisure, giving them the time they deserve. To do so, simply send an email to the shipyard or click here: [email protected]

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Yacht Sank in Sicily Due to ‘Endless Chain of Errors,' Ship Maker's Owner Speculates: ‘Everything Was Predictable’

"A series of activities should have been done to avoid finding oneself in that situation," argues Giovanni Costantino, who owns the firm that built the vessel in 2008

• Giovanni Costantino — who is the CEO of The Italian Sea Group, the company that now owns Perini Navi, which built the  Bayesian  in 2008 — blames an "endless chain of errors" for the luxury yacht’s sinking on Monday, Aug. 19
• "Everything was predictable. I have the weather charts in front of me here," Constantino told Italian newspaper  Corriere della Sera  of the storm the boat was caught in
• "An unsinkable ship but from the crew an endless chain of errors," the CEO claimed to the outlet

The sinking of the luxury Bayesian  yacht off the coast of Sicily this week  resulted from an "endless chain of errors" by the crew, the ship maker's CEO is speculating.

"This episode sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact," Giovanni Costantino — who leads The Italian Sea Group, the company that now owns Perini Navi, which built the  Bayesian  in 2008 — said,  according to CNN .

While speaking to  Italian newspaper  Corriere della Sera , Costantino said he believes those on board should not have been in their cabins, as he claims they were, when the Bayesian sank in the early hours of Monday, Aug. 19. 

Many details of why the yacht went into the water so quickly remain unclear and it's not yet known what the passengers and crew were doing before tragedy struck.

The 183-foot British vessel sank around 5 a.m. local time on Monday after a "violent storm" while near Porticello, the Italian coast guard said in a statement that was previously obtained by PEOPLE.

"Everything that has been done reveals a very long sum of errors. The people should not have been in the cabins, the boat should not have been at anchor. And then why didn't the crew know about the incoming disturbance?" Costantino said in his interview, translated from Italian.

Related: Italian Authorities Currently Don’t Have Anyone ‘Under Investigation’ over Luxury Yacht Sinking

"The passengers reported an absurd thing, namely that the storm came unexpected, suddenly. It's not true. Everything was predictable. I have the weather charts in front of me here. Nothing came suddenly ... Ask yourself, why was no fisherman from Porticello out that night? A fisherman reads the weather conditions and a ship doesn't? The disturbance was fully readable in all the weather charts. One could not not know," he argued.

"An unsinkable ship but from the crew an endless chain of errors," the CEO asserted.

The coast guard has said 22 people were aboard the  Bayesian  when it sank — 12 passengers and 10 crew — and that 15 of those were subsequently rescued.

The body of the yacht's chef, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered nearby. 

Costantino's comments came as it was reported that five bodies had been found in the search for the missing six people as of Wednesday, Aug. 21, a source close to the rescue operations confirmed to PEOPLE. Authorities have said that their work is ongoing. 

An Italian government official, Massimo Mariani, reportedly named one of the dead as British tech tycoon Mike Lynch . The other bodies have not yet been publicly identified by authorities. 

Lynch was celebrating with family and friends on the yacht following his acquittal in a fraud trial in June, PEOPLE previously reported.

Related: 'We Are in Shock,' Prominent N.Y.C. Attorney's Firm Says After He and His Wife Go Missing in Yacht Sinking

Costantino offered his view of how the tragedy could have been avoided: "To begin with, in a weather alert situation it was inappropriate to have, as I read, a party. Not that evening. The hull and deck needed to be secured by closing all doors and hatches, after putting the guests at the ship's meeting point as per emergency procedure. Then start the engines and pull up the anchor or release it automatically, put the bow to the wind and lower the keel.

"The next morning they would have departed with zero damage." 

When discussing whether the crew were at fault, Costantino reiterated to the Italian outlet that he believes "errors were made."

"A series of activities should have been done to avoid finding oneself in that situation," he said. "I as the ship's captain would have moved, but even if for some reason I had to stay there, I would have managed those weather conditions which then, let's face it, weren't so crazy."

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Costantino contended that there would have been "a zero risk if the correct maneuvers had been made and if situations that compromised the ship's stability had not occurred," adding to the newspaper that reports that the boat went down in seconds is "nonsense." He believes the yacht would have "went down" after water "started to enter" within "six minutes."

The remaining missing  Bayesian  passengers are Lynch's daughter Hannah as well as Chairman of Morgan Stanley International  Jonathan Bloomer, his wife, Judy , and New York City-based lawyer  Christopher Morvillo and his wife, Neda , sources have said.

Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, was among those rescued, PEOPLE previously reported.

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Riviera to premiere spectacular new sport yacht at fort lauderdale international boat show.

Internationally respected luxury motor yacht builder, Riviera Australia, will proudly host the Americas premiere of the exceptional new  6800 Sport Yacht Platinum Edition  as part of a magnificent 11-model showcase at the 2024 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show opening on Wednesday, October 30. 

Visitors will have the opportunity to inspect an exceptional showcase that represents the very latest of Riviera’s world-class engineering, design, and handcrafted luxury.

Flanking the Riviera fleet in Fort Lauderdale will be the 6800 Sport Yacht Platinum Edition. Following three years and over 45,000-man hours of meticulous development, the Riviera design group, in collaboration with awarded superyacht designer Luca Vallebona, have created the ultimate Sport Yacht, the flagship 6800 Platinum Edition. 

An exclusive VIP event for Riviera owners will be held at the display during the show to celebrate the launching of the 6000th Riviera yacht, the premiere of the new 6800 Sport Yacht and the Riviera Americas family.

The Riviera collection  from 39 to 78 feet shares a 44-year blue-water heritage and now includes the magnificent Motor Yacht, six long-range and luxurious Sports Motor Yachts, four sophisticated Sport Yachts, six adventurous SUVs and four yachts from the elegant Belize collection.

Riviera Australia owner Rodney Longhurst said: “We are proud to welcome Riviera owners and admirers visiting the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show the first opportunity in the Americas to inspect the 6800 Sport Yacht.

“This year has been significant for our 950-strong team of craftspeople at Riviera. In April we launched the 6,000th Riviera, a  5400 Sport Yacht Platinum Edition.  Then in May we held a magical and exclusive celebration for Riviera’s VIPs, those who are eagerly awaiting future delivery of their very own 6800 Sport Yacht Platinum Edition.”

Riviera 6800 Sport Yacht  – Americas Premiere

The Luxury of Space

Riviera’s 6800 Sport Yacht has so many separate entertaining areas that family groups, friends and couples can all find their own space to enjoy the world around them. Sunshine or moonlight on the forward deck tends to attract more casual occasions. The protected aft deck is popular regardless of the weather and when you want to enjoy the sunshine or stars, simply open the sunroof. The saloon is another very relaxing space with a choice of three lounges and another electric sunroof.

Welcome aboard the 6800 Sport Yacht

As you step aboard the tremendous boarding platform, you’ll notice teak steps port and starboard leading up to the aft deck. In between is the tender garage and access door to the full-height engine room leading through to the crew or utility room. Always finding new ways to make boating easier and more pleasurable, the innovative Riviera design team has created an electro-hydraulic swim platform that articulates into steps to be lowered below the water or raised above to match the level of marina or pontoon. And for raised fixed jetties there are wing doors on the aft deck for easy, direct access.

Snorkelling, diving, paddleboarding and fishing enthusiasts are well catered for on the 6800 Sport Yacht with the ample water sports equipment storage of the tender garage. A clever tender cradle and electric winch system using the descending steps of the swim platform will gently launch and retrieve the tender. There is also the convenience of an overhead freshwater hot and cold shower and light when the tender garage door is raised.

Outstanding Aft Deck

This is the entertaining and dining centre of the 6800 Sport Yacht with an extended hardtop providing all-weather protection. A plush guest lounge extends across the width of the transom; always popular while underway or at anchor. Forward to port is an attractive L-shaped lounge dining area with superbly crafted folding teak table. Here is comfortable seating for eight or more, with storage underneath and four folding occasional chairs standing by. A breezeway blind lowers from the hardtop at the press of a button to shield from the afternoon sun, and tinted glass quarter panels add privacy and weather protection. The aft deck on the 6800 boasts a very capable alfresco entertainer’s galley complete with a grill and hotplate, exhaust fan, two drawer fridges, an icemaker, stainless steel sink with a mixer and solid surface benchtop.

An impressive electric sunroof glides open to invite fresh air, the warmth of the sun or the sparkle of the stars. And for those important moments that must be seen live, an LED TV folds down from the hardtop.

The wide side decks guide you to the forward deck, a casual entertaining sundeck so easily accessed from the side door of the saloon. Here are deep insulated ice bins for refreshments, a sound system for your playlist and an expansive outdoor lounge area to relax and entertain with seating for eight.

Two supremely comfortable sunbeds take prime position and there is no finer place to stretch out and enjoy the beauty of your surrounds.

When it’s time to weigh anchor, the teak trimmed pedestal tables and euro awning quickly stow in a forward locker.

Spacious Saloon and Gourmet Galley

Slide open the saloon door. Then lower the electric galley window with the push of a button. Both are of the highest quality tinted glass, framed in polished stainless steel. Now the aft deck flows into the saloon creating one grand living and entertaining space.

The U-shaped galley of the 6800 Sport Yacht is an inspiring space, superbly equipped with premium appliances beautifully integrated into handcrafted timber joinery. A three-element induction cooktop with removable potholders is complemented by a combination oven with integrated grill; ample storage, pantry, rangehood, double sink, microwave and dishwasher complete the galley wish list.

Opposite the galley is a full-height refrigerator with two freezer doors below and a fine example of Riviera’s renowned craftsmanship; an elegant bar/serving station with a double drawer fridge, wine cooler, sink and drinks cabinet for bottles and glassware.

Forward of the galley portside, is a U-shaped lounge with matching ottomans. And while most meals will be enjoyed on the aft deck, Riviera’s design team has created a masterful alternative featuring a handcrafted solid timber table that easily folds out from the lounge for when additional guests are aboard, or you wish to dine inside.

A matching sofa opposite completes this stylish saloon setting. Lower the window blinds to create a cinema room with premium sound system and a large LED TV rising at the press of a button. If more seating is required, the companion helm chair turns 180 degrees to accommodate.

In true motor yacht style, the saloon features a very practical starboard door for quick and easy access to the forward deck; access to the side deck to tend to mooring lines; or simply to invite a cool breeze to flow through the saloon at anchor.

Commanding Helm

The helm is state-of-the-art, featuring touch-screen navigation and operation technology all designed to make your boating even easier and more pleasurable. Total control is at your fingertips and visibility is outstanding through the curved tempered glass windscreen. Captain and companion chairs are fully adjustable and deeply comfortable with the added luxury of hand-stitched leather. Guests can join the skipper while underway and enjoy commanding views from the portside companion lounge. The electric sunroof and forward side windows operate at the touch of a button to invite a cool breeze whether underway or at anchor.

Four Staterooms, Three Bathrooms plus Utility / Crew Cabin

The accommodation deck of the 6800 Sport Yacht is vast and luxurious.

All staterooms and bathrooms enjoy natural light through large, tinted hull windows. Luxe appointments include premium carpet and fabrics, reverse-cycle air-conditioning, cedar-lined hanging lockers and striking timber feature panels. Designer bathrooms feature full-sized showers with frameless glass doors, teak seats and heated towel rails.

There’s also the option of a three-stateroom layout where the starboard guest cabin is replaced by a lower lounge with an LED TV. A perfect media room to entertain children or use as a snug reading space.

The full-beam master suite with penthouse style ensuite is palatial. At the centre is king-sized walk-around island bed; to starboard a handcrafted polished timber drawer bureau includes a make-up station complete with lift-up mirror and an ottoman seat. Portside is a sumptuous two-seater lounge.

A bespoke timber entertainment unit with a flush-mounted LED TV provides additional drawer storage and welcomed shelf space. Ample storage and hanging lockers including a walk-through wardrobe and linen hampers. The master suite includes a breakfast bar and drawer fridge with power for a coffee machine.

The forward VIP stateroom is guaranteed to delight your guests. With private entry, private ensuite bathroom and walk-around queen-sized bed, the mood is pure luxury. Storage is maximised with a lift-up bed base on gas struts, additional bed-base drawers, port and starboard overhead lockers and His & Hers cedar-lined hanging lockers. A flush-mounted LED TV and sound system is ready to entertain.

The portside guest stateroom can be two single beds or one double at the touch of a button. Flexible and practical, the inboard single berth slides smoothly across to form a restful double. Guests enjoy the luxury of a designer ensuite bathroom with the two-way entry allowing convenient day-head access.

The starboard guest stateroom adds two very comfortable adult-sized single berths overlapping at 90 degrees. Guests share the ensuite bathroom of the port stateroom via the day-head entry with privacy locks.

Personalised Laundry, or Crew Cabin

A popular option for those with large families planning longer range voyages is to use this utility space as a dedicated laundry with a sink, separate washing machine, dryer and plenty of practical bench space for sorting and folding. The laundry is conveniently located aft of the master stateroom through a sound-insulated door.

The Crew Cabin layout features an additional door to enclose the walk-through wardrobe and restrict access to the Master Stateroom.

A well-equipped laundry is retained with the washing machine and dryer located below the single berth. Riviera’s design team has created a comfortable crew retreat with all the essentials, including an enclosed wet head with shower wand and toilet, extraction fan, air-conditioning and a tinted hull window with an opening porthole. The lift-up transom door provides private access to the Crew Cabin passing through the immaculate full-height engine room and watertight entry door.

Options for even greater convenience, comfort and style

Owners can select from a range of innovative custom options including Starlink high-speed internet and Praxis solar charging systems. Factory fitted stabilisation is also available; choose either a gyroscopic or fin-based system. 

The latest smart technology aboard the 6800 SY makes boating easy

Enjoy an even greater ease of boating with Riviera. The Volvo Penta Assisted Docking system is the next generation of marine automation. It simplifies yacht docking and improves your control for manoeuvring in tight spaces to make docking easy in challenging conditions. With the joystick, you control the boat’s path and speed, while the system compensates for elements such as wind and current.  Push the joystick forward and the system lays out a straight path that the boat follows.  At any time, you can release the joystick and your boat will hold on a fixed position.

Power at your fingertips

Access to the superbly engineered, full-height and substantial engine room is via a wide watertight door from the utility cabin aft of the master stateroom, or through a lift-up door on the transom.

Riviera engineers have selected twin Volvo Penta D13 IPS 1350s, rated at 1,000hp (735kW) to deliver effortless power-to-weight performance.

Industry leading warranty support

Riviera offers an industry-leading level of owner care and comfort, with all Volvo Penta IPS powered yachts delivered with five-year engines, drives and electronics limited warranty, which is further supported by Riviera’s seven-year structural and two-year express limited warranties.

Where to find Riviera and the new 6800 Sport Yacht at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show

Rodney Longhurst said: “We are looking forward to welcoming Riviera owners and admirers aboard our magnificent line-up of Riviera luxury motor yachts, including the Americas Premiere of the exceptional new 6800 Sport Yacht, at the Bahia Mar Yachting Center, C Dock – Green Zone in Fort Lauderdale from October 30 to November 3.”

The Riviera 6800 Sport Yacht offer effortless blue-water performance and ease of operation.

Riviera’s 6800 Sport Yacht has so many separate entertaining areas that family groups, friends and couples can all find their own space to enjoy the world around them.

The helm is state-of-the-art, featuring touch-screen navigation and operation technology all designed to make your boating even easier and more pleasurable.

The wide side decks guide you to the forward deck, a casual entertaining sundeck so easily accessed from the side door of the saloon.

The accommodation deck of the 6800 Sport Yacht is vast and luxurious offering a choice of three or four staterooms and three bathrooms, a crew cabin or utility room.

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Hiscox Confirms Chairman Bloomer Died During Yacht Accident Off Coast of Sicily

Hiscox Ltd. issued a statement confirming that the insurer’s chair, Jonathan Bloomer, and Bloomer’s wife, Judy, died in the tragic sinking of the yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Aug. 19.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by Jonathan and Judy’s tragic deaths. Our deepest sympathies go out to their family and friends at this devastating time,” according to Aki Hussain, Hiscox Group CEO, in a statement.

“It was a privilege to have known Jonathan and to have benefited from his generosity and wisdom over the last year in his role as chair of Hiscox,” Hussain continued.

“His deep experience across our industry and in the broader business arena, combined with his personal values, made him both an excellent chair and a person I was proud to know and work with. His advice and support were immensely valuable to me, and he will be dearly missed,” he said.

Bloomer was also a non-executive chair at Morgan Stanley International .

In addition to Bloomer and his wife, the other fatalities were British tech magnate Mike Lynch; a Clifford Chance solicitor, Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda Morvillo; and the vessel’s onboard chef, Recaldo Thomas. The body of last missing person, Lynch’s daughter, was recovered on Friday, Aug. 23.

Fifteen people, including Lynch’s wife, survived the accident. There had been 22 passengers and crew on board the yacht Bayesian, which was named for a British mathematician.

Photograph: Italian firefighters scuba divers are docked at the harbor of Porticello, southern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, as rescue teams returned to the site of a storm-sunken superyacht to search for six people, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who are believed to be still trapped in the hull 50 meters (164-feet) underwater. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

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James Cutfield, 51, is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck, according to reports by local Italian news outlets. Charges have not officially been filed against him for the accident involving the 184-foot luxury yacht, named the Bayesian. However, investigators decided to look into Cutfield after interrogating him for a second time in a week, Italian news agency Ansa reports . 

A total of 22 people were on board the luxury yacht when the incident occurred, 15 of whom were rescued after the deadly wreck Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah Lynch, along with ​​Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, Jonathan’s wife Judith Bloomer, lawyer Christopher Morvillo, Christopher’s wife Neda Morvillo, and Recaldo Thomas, a chef on the Bayesian, were also killed. Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, survived.

It took authorities days to locate the bodies of the deceased, but they confirmed that most of the dead were found in the same part of the ship, indicating they have been trapped, according to investigators.

Officers initially thought the shipwreck was caused by the ship being struck by a tornado. But Termini Imerese prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said that investigations indicated that the accident occurred rather quickly after the yacht was impacted by a downburst, a powerful downdraft from a thunderstorm. Notably, however, a nearby sailboat was largely unharmed by the same downburst.

“For me, it is probable that offenses were committed, that it could be a case of manslaughter, but we can only establish that if you give us the time to investigate," Cartosio previously said. 

It’s unclear if other crew members are under investigation for the incident.

Lynch had been celebrating his acquittal from fraud charges with family and those who defended him during the trial when tragedy struck. 

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• Top 10 Luxury Magazines Targeting The Affluent

While a significant section of the luxury lifestyle publishing industry has moved in a digital direction, those who target affluent consumers continue to create luxury lifestyle magazines to showcase the best in luxury.

Glossy pages with insightful information and striking photography – even in the digital age we adore turning to the thick, sumptuous feel of these high-end magazines.

You could say that in the digital age of screenshots and blogs that a luxury lifestyle magazine is a piece of luxury in itself.

And this is precisely why you can always find a stack of beautiful high-end magazine aboard every private jet, onboard every superyacht and fanned within reach on the coffee tables of every luxury villa.

From London to New York, from Singapore to Lima, some luxury lifestyle magazines can be found across the world while others reflect the local luxury culture.

While the rest of the world may mourn the coming loss of print magazines it seems the world of luxury has sidestepped this fact.

“Luxury magazines will always have a place with the elite.”

For luxury brands, turning to the timeless format of print advertising to reach affluent consumers is as relevant today as it will be in the future.

The right tone, the right style, the perfect artistically inspired content, the correct partnerships with valuable luxury brands, and a carefully curated circulation, this is the recipe for delivering a luxury lifestyle magazine that will long stay in the hands of the classiest connoisseurs.

In no particular order, these are the top 20 luxury lifestyle magazines targeting the affluent in today’s digital era.

#1- YACHT PREMIERE

As the premier luxury magazine for superyacht over 100′, Yacht Premiere’s loyal fanbase counts the billionaires and multi-millionaires of this world.

To delight these superyacht lovers and buyers, Yacht Premiere has limited advertising opportunities, counting less than 10 ads per issue, and a stick editorial guideline that is simply uncompromised.

What results is a stunning magazine filled with high-end photography and editorial content showcasing the most prestigious new built superyachts.

Once in hand, it is hard to let it go. Experiencing Yacht Premiere is a luxury to celebrate.

Explore this superyacht magazine at www.yacht-premiere.com.

Robb Report seems to be the head sommelier when it comes to living the life of luxury.

This luxury magazine has flawlessly captured the spirit of superior taste for over three decades while stoically remaining in print, teaching the world how to spot the most innovative products to have in the home, handpicking the best supercars to park in the driveway, giving glimpses into the trendiest destinations across the globe, and hinting at which stellar garments should hang in our perfectly pressed walk-in wardrobes.

From Dubai to Los Angeles, Robb Report brings the tide of luxury ebbing at many foreign shores and is the master of whispers when it comes to the world’s finest things.

Explore this luxury lifestyle magazine at www.robbreport.com.

#3- DEPARTURES

With only seven issues a year distributed to American Express Platinum and Centurion card members, those welcomed into this elite club can garner an insider’s look at the exclusive world caught between the folds of Departures Magazine.

From the best new convertibles that are begging for a top-down spin along the coast, to the up-and-coming fashion designer in New York City, and the best corners to call your own in Capri – Departures delivers exceptional content to encourage you to break the bank and makes exploration a connoisseur’s choice.

With over three decades of editions tucked neatly under their belt, Departures brings a beautiful and breezy style to the world of American Express that lovers of travel, culture and a high-class lifestyle will simply adore.

Explore this  exclusive  luxury magazine at www.departures.com.

#4- CENTURION

Like an embossed invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties, once you get the Centurion Amex card you know you have made it.

Yet instead of gallons of champagne, satin, and pearls, part of the reward to this elite club is the luxury of receiving the Centurion quarterly magazine.

Founded in 2000 and published in several languages, Centurion is an elegant magazine of only especially curated content hand-selected for its ability to communicate extraordinary things and delivering what American Express call the art of great living.

Explore this top  exclusive  luxury magazine at www.centurion-magazine.com.

#5- ELITE TRAVELER

For private jet-setters who don’t have to dream about first-class travel, behind the scenes access, and Michelin star experiences then Elite Traveler was curated by you, for you.

With a style that simply oozes affluence, topics that are hot enough to singe your fingers, and photography that falls fast into the category of perfection and passion, Elite Traveler is something to linger on when you are flying in your own private jet.

Take a closer glimpse at the world’s best wine list to see what will be touching your lips on that European jaunt, fall in love with the fifty best restaurants recently announced, and see which Singaporean eateries are leaving diners with raised eyebrows.

The bi-monthly luxury magazine has certainly been making a splash since its debutante appearance back in 2001, since then the elite crowd has turned the pages to see the top 101 hotel suites and of course the best restaurants.

Those wanting to gain a firm footing in the world of deliriously affluent travel should be sure to grab a copy of Elite Traveler and become the adventurer you want to be.

Browse this luxury lifestyle magazine at  www.elitetraveler.com  

#6- LE GRAND MAG

True to its name and very much a tout for the go bold, go big or go home way of life, Le Grand Mag believes in living extremely well and in perfecting the precision of luxury in a truly extraordinary fashion.

With cities from as far as New York City to Abu Dhabi offering an elite touch of Le Grand Mag for high-class clientele, there are few magazines in the same league as this polished piece of luxury lifestyle publishing.

There is no doubt that Le Grand Mag is aimed at the super-affluent, those who want to be inspired by the grace of pure luxury once more. There is a playful touch of vanity and there is a hint of the radical and the wonderful that carves out this publication from being just another top shelf drawer.

Inside the pages you find everything you could ever dream of when it comes to being the person who has everything, from helicopters to supercars, jewels to beauty, high-class fashion couture to private art, this whirlwind experience from Le Grand Mag reminds us to think big when it comes to wealth.

Browse this luxury lifestyle magazine at  www.legrandmag.com  

#7-  UPSCALE LIVING

Known as the “portal of luxury goods” this upscale luxury magazine is an exclusive publication that touches on everything from yachts and private jets, to real estate and fine jewelry.

Whether it’s their artistic photography, their beautifully written pieces, their breadth and wealth of topic or their ability to ignite inspiration, Upscale Living knows how to curate finery in between their pages.

Lazing in your hammock on the British Virgin Isles you can find out what the world’s most expensive hat looks like, which fashion brands are worth falling in love with this fall, what villas are boasting the best infinity pools and interior design from the coast of the Caribbean right down to Costa Rica, and which restaurants are worth calling ahead to ensure you get a table.

Along with everything from fashion to popular features, epicurean dining, and home designs, you can also keep abreast of events happening across the globe in truly flirtatious luxury fashion, from art and fashion events in trendy Tribeca to catwalk style in Berlin and premiers in Cannes.

Upscale Living delivers a high dose of luxury in a way that never fails to lose its sophisticated edge, in a way that is cloaked in incredible glamour and in a way that makes us want to eat, sleep, dress, dream, think, live and play in the meadows of pure unadulterated luxury.

Browse this luxury lifestyle magazine at  www.UpscaleLivingMag.com

#8- MODERN LUXURY

As a series of city guide luxury publications, Modern Luxury   offers its readership a selection of 84 titles across 24 affluent markets.

Whilst many will turn to the glitzy shores of Miami, the star-studded hills of LA and the magic of Manhattan when talking about American wealth and prowess, Modern Luxury proves that luxury can be found across the USA including cosmopolitan cities of Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, Houston, San Francisco, and Boston.

Regardless of the city of choice, Modern Luxury puts back sophistication and class into its lifestyle.

Hailed as champions of style, those seeking where’s hot and where’s not can certainly use Modern Luxury as their tailored and tapered guide to finding all the fine things right on their doorstep.

Browse this luxury lifestyle magazine at  www.ModernLuxury.com.

#9- TRAVEL & LEISURE

As part of the Time Inc. network of publishing, you couldn’t expect anything less amazing from Travel & Leisure.

If Travel & Leisure were a person they would be the beautiful girl from next door. Travel and Leisure just know to create something great, the

Travel and Leisure just know to create something great, the sharp-eyed photography, the tantalizing titles, and the well-written words – these are all wisps of wonder that seamlessly tie together under one of the world’s best-known luxury travel magazines.

Those seeking a dose of travel inspiration can find it all crammed into the pages of Travel & Leisure, laid out in a way that resembles a banquet feast for worldly explorers, and a table lined with the finest silverware and fresh linen napkins.

Browse this luxury lifestyle magazine at www.travelandleisure.com .

Travel inspiration curated to its very finest comes shining through the pages of Afar Magazine.

Beautiful photography showcasing the colors of culinary magic, images of wild beaches, rising mountains, and Europe’s oldest cities encased in elegant appeal, when flicking through Afar you know you have arrived.

Yet it’s not only the pretty pictures that light up Afar but the bold and brave content that finds its way between the pages.

Here you won’t find the usual trodden trails of go here, see this, eat that but you will find words that are bravely spoken from the heart and more geared towards cultural connections and understanding the world that flows from the patch of ground you are standing on.

Afar magazine is wrapped up in pretty paper but beneath the folds, you find a heart that beats with complete authenticity.

The features are real snapshots of local life, real explorations of the cultural chaos that marks the streets, and curious adventures out of the ordinary and into the shadows so people can truly get a feel for a place.

Afar magazine isn’t just about stepping off the beaten track, it is about releasing the grip on your mind to truly explore from the inside out.

Browse this luxury lifestyle magazine at  www.afar.com

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After Mike Lynch’s fatal yacht sinking, is Sicily still a yachting paradise?

The Bayesian was moored around 300 meters off the coast of Porticello when it was struck by freak weather conditions last Monday and sank. 

The boat had been carrying 22 people, 15 of whom were rescued and seven of whom died—including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch.

It was considered technologically advanced and had been restored four years ago. It is still unclear exactly how the yacht sank, but marine accident investigation teams have assessed the sunken vessel and have been reporting their findings. 

Sicily has long been known as a sailing paradise with azure waters, underwater caves, warm, dry summers and relatively calm conditions. 

But thanks to climate change, could more erratic weather patterns threaten the future of Sicily as a sailing destination?

The Mediterranean is warming

Initial hypotheses suggest a downburst played a role in capsizing the Bayesian. 

Climate scientists are linking the freak weather event in Sicily to climate change and the warming Mediterranean sea.

According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these are “powerful winds that descend from a thunderstorm and spread out quickly once they hit the ground.”

Climate scientists are linking the freak weather event in Sicily to climate change and the warming Mediterranean sea. Waters have reached 30C, up three degrees from its average temperature, following two months of brutal heatwaves. 

Warming waters have also contributed to more frequent episodes of exceptional weather.

“Occurrences of tornadoes or Mediterranean hurricanes have been increasing in frequency over the last 10 to 15 years,” Roberto Danavaro, a marine biologist at the University of Ancona, told the Guardian . 

“And based on the high temperatures, we are likely to see more in September and October. The heat of this summer will not bring anything good.” 

However, the captain of the Bayesian James Cutfield is also under investigation for possible manslaughter and culpable shipwreck.

“We didn’t see it coming.” Captain of the Bayesian, James Cutfield

The 51-year-old New Zealand national has been questioned by magistrates and will undergo further questioning this week, Italian daily La Repubblica reports. 

Under Italian law, being placed under investigation doesn’t imply any guilt and doesn’t necessarily result in criminal charges.

News site ANSA also reports that other members of the crew are also likely to be investigated as prosecutors consider whether the sinking was caused by negligence or errors.

Cutfield told Italian press that the storm had taken them by surprise: “We didn’t see it coming.”

A crew member was on duty on the bridge during the night and was in possession of equipment to receive weather warnings. But images show that the rocket to signal an emergency was launched half an hour after the yacht began to sink.

“The crew should have checked that everything was closed.” Architect of the Bayesian, Franco Romani

The architect of the Bayesian, Franco Romani, told Italian newspaper La Stampa that the yacht was designed to withstand “all weather conditions.”

He believes the sinking was due to a side hatch being left open, which would have allowed water to enter below deck as the boat began to list.  “The crew should have checked that everything was closed,” he added. 

Marine investigation teams have confirmed that the vessel remains intact underwater and the mast was not broken. 

Is sailing under threat in Sicily? 

The downburst appears to have hit a restricted area—with neighboring boats remaining unscathed—and formed very rapidly, meaning the crew had little time to prepare. 

“As with many Mediterranean destinations, Sicily is subject to seasonal winds, including the Mistral (northwestern wind) and the Sirocco (southeastern wind), which can cause rapid changes in weather conditions,” says Raphael Sauleau, CEO of international yachting company IYC .

Eva de Wilde, who runs the yachting holiday company EcoSailors with her partner Pietro Paolo Vital, notes that end-of-season downbursts are getting more frequent as the sea warms. 

“Very often the Mediterranean is seen as a calm pool but you always need to keep an eye on the weather forecast,” she says.  

Yachting experts also say there is plenty you can do to improve safety and preparedness when sailing.

James Ballard, who captained superyachts for 25 years and is now CEO of House of Assets, says that anchorages are generally quite safe in Sicily but again, the wind is something to be aware of.

“If you are on the north coast [where the Bayesian was moored] for example you have a long way to get around to cover on the east side including going through the Messina strait,” Ballard says.

“Sailing always comes with risk so you have to be fully prepared, have researched where you are going and safe ports of call and that you have adequate safety equipment on board.” James Ballard, CEO of House of Assets.

His advice is to put out more anchor chains than you might normally when mooring. 

“This means if the wind does pick up and you don’t have time to start the engines you have enough chain to hold the boat.” He also says it is essential to have someone on watch in the evenings. 

“Sailing always comes with risk so you have to be fully prepared, have researched where you are going and safe ports of call and that you have adequate safety equipment on board,” he adds.

Both Sauleau and de Wilde emphasize that incidents like the sinking of the Bayesian in this region are not the norm. 

“The sea, by its nature, can be unpredictable, and it’s crucial to adhere to all safety protocols, even under seemingly serene conditions,” Sauleau says. “But Sicily has long been a favored sailing destination with a history of few reported incidents.”

De Wilde says the extreme conditions that hit the Bayesian should not put people off sailing in the area. 

“What happened to the Bayesian is something really uncommon,” she says. “When they explain exactly what happened we will all be able to learn from their experience and be even more prepared for an event like this.

“Sailing around Sicily you will discover this amazing region in a special and different way. Only a sailboat can offer you this particular experience,” she adds.  

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‘The Blind Side’ Made Him Famous. But He Has a Different Story to Tell.

The football player Michael Oher believes his early life was misrepresented by the Oscar-winning movie and the book it was based on.

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“That’s where Hurt Village was.” Michael Oher was pointing to the site of a now-demolished housing project where he lived with his mother, who was addicted to drugs, and, at various times, as many as seven of his 11 siblings. It was an overcast Monday afternoon in late April, and Oher, the former football player whose high school years were dramatized in the movie “The Blind Side,” was driving me on a tour through a forlorn-looking stretch of Memphis and past some of the landmarks of his childhood. “And right over there, that was a store called Chism Trail. It’s one of the places I’d steal from. Real food, not candy. Pizza, hot dogs, bologna. One time I took a ham.”

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Oher played eight seasons as a starting offensive tackle in the N.F.L. and won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens. He is now 38, and his neatly trimmed beard has a few flecks of gray. He is 6-foot-5 and says he is under his playing weight of 315 pounds. We were in his GMC Denali pickup, a big truck to accommodate his big frame.

“Here’s where the sisters lived,” he said as we turned a corner, gesturing toward a rambling house with a picnic table out front. This was the home for nuns from the Missionaries of Charity, an order founded by Mother Teresa. “We’d go there, and they would feed us. I’ll never forget it, because it’s the first time I had lemon meringue pie.”

We drove from what is known as Uptown Memphis to the more prosperous East Side and to a place that Oher pointed to with pride: a spot along a six-lane highway where, beginning when he was 7, he sold Sunday newspapers. “You couldn’t be lazy and just sit on the crate like some of the other kids would do,” he told me. “You had to walk around. You had to get up and wave the paper. I sold the most newspapers out of anyone.”

Our last stop was a stately yellow home, framed by two tall oaks. He pulled halfway up the driveway. “This is where I lived with my family,” Oher said. He turned to me and, to make sure I got the joke, added: “You know what I mean, right? My family .”

This was where Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy lived with their two children — and, for about a year, with Oher. The Tuohys took him shopping for clothes, helped him get a driver’s license, bought him a pickup truck and arranged for tutoring that boosted his grades and made him eligible to play college football.

The charity they extended, a wealthy white couple taking in a formerly homeless Black teenager, is the basis of “The Blind Side.” Based on Michael Lewis’s 2006 nonfiction book of the same name, the movie came out in the fall of 2009, less than a year into Barack Obama’s first term as president, and audiences largely embraced it as a parable of hope and racial harmony.

Oher is now suing the Tuohys. Last August, in the Probate Court of Shelby County, Tenn., Oher’s lawyers filed a suit claiming that the Tuohys have exploited him by using his name, image and likeness to promote speaking engagements that have earned them roughly $8 million over the last two decades — and by repeatedly saying that they had adopted him, when they never did. The Tuohys have claimed in response that Oher in recent years has attempted to extort them with “menacing” texts.

The lawsuit shocked many who saw the movie and led to a deluge of worldwide media coverage, with news stories often referring to Oher and the Tuohys as “‘The Blind Side’ family.” “We’re devastated,” Sean Tuohy told a reporter from The Daily Memphian on the day the suit was filed. “It’s upsetting to think we would make money off any of our children. But we’re going to love Michael at 37 just like we loved him at 16.” The Tuohys have not spoken publicly since then, and they declined to talk to me for this article.

I visited Oher twice during the spring, first in Nashville, where he lives with his wife, Tiffany, and their five children, and then in Memphis. These were the first times he had talked publicly since filing suit against the Tuohys. He was, at all times, resolute. He believes he was wronged both by the couple who took him in and by a movie that made him into a cartoon image he doesn’t recognize. But he was also self-aware enough to know that many people would not take his side. In our conversations, he sometimes seemed to check himself. “There I go, pouting again, right?” he said at one point as he recounted his grievances against the Tuohys. “I know that’s what some people are going to think. ‘He’s being ungrateful.’ ”

The couple’s lawyers argue that the Tuohys have a right to tell the story of their family and that Oher is part of that story. Oher’s lawyers counter that without Oher, the Tuohys would never have had a profitable story to tell. The case is moving slowly. The Tuohys have filed for a partial summary judgment, a routine motion to have some of the claims in the case dismissed; a hearing on that has been scheduled for Oct. 1. If the case reaches trial, it probably will not do so until next year.

Even then, the outcome of the legal proceedings may not provide a clear picture of the relationships among the people involved. It might even be that the positions taken by each side — one claiming to have been exploited, the other extorted — are both true. That would make this chapter of “The Blind Side,” its epilogue, less a fairy tale of racial reconciliation and more a classic American story of money, misunderstanding and ruptured relationships.

Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy met at the University of Mississippi, known as Ole Miss, where he was a star basketball player and she was a cheerleader. They became modern Memphis royalty — founding members of their evangelical church, owners of a private jet they called Air Taco. Sean made a fortune from his ownership of more than 100 fast-food franchises, mainly Taco Bells, KFCs and Long John Silver’s. He sold most of them in 2019 for $213 million. The couple sent their children to the private school Leigh Anne attended, Briarcrest Christian, founded in 1973, the same year Memphis implemented a court-ordered busing plan to desegregate its public schools. Their daughter, Collins, would marry the scion of another prominent Memphis family, Cannon Smith, the son of the billionaire FedEx founder Fred Smith.

Oher came from another world entirely. While moving between foster homes, his mother’s house and a Salvation Army shelter — and sometimes the streets — he missed long stretches of his school years, and his academic record suffered. But he was a promising athlete. He was not just large; he was also unusually fast and nimble. A youth basketball coach named Tony Henderson succeeded in enrolling him in Briarcrest before his 10th-grade year, along with his own son, Steve, who was a year younger. Oher lived with the Hendersons for a time, and then in the home of another Black classmate, Quinterio Franklin. At some point during his time at Briarcrest — exactly when has become a point of contention — he moved in with the Tuohys.

In the movie, the country singer Tim McGraw plays a laconic but canny Sean Tuohy. Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Leigh Anne as a Southern tiger mom who makes Oher her cause. In one scene, she storms out of a lunch with her friends when one of them presses her on why she thinks it’s safe to have Oher living in the house with her teenage daughter. In another, a local gang leader who has a beef with Oher says to her: “Tell him to sleep with one eye open. You hear me, bitch?” She responds: “No, you hear me , bitch. You threaten my son, you threaten me.” She lets him know she’s in a prayer group with the district attorney and is a member of the N.R.A. — and “I’m always packin’.”

The Michael Oher of the movie, played by a lesser-known actor, Quinton Aaron, is passive and hardly speaks. He displays none of the grit of a child who survived for many years on his own and seems to have no friends, not even among his high school football teammates. This version of Oher is helpless and alone until the Tuohys get involved.

Oher did not even want to see the movie, which came out when he was just months into his N.F.L. career. He already felt that Lewis’s book, published three years earlier, had cost him a higher draft position — and the increased money that goes with it — by creating the impression that he was stupid. “The N.F.L. people were wondering if I could read a playbook,” he told me.

A month or so after the movie’s premiere, the Ravens’ team chaplain persuaded Oher to see it with him and two teammates at a theater in Baltimore. “It’s hard to describe my reaction,” he told me. “It seemed kind of funny to me, to tell you the truth, like it was a comedy about someone else. It didn’t register. But social media was just starting to grow, and I started seeing stuff that I’m dumb. I’m stupid. Every article about me mentioned ‘The Blind Side,’ like it was part of my name.” He worries now that the movie will have a negative impact on his children. “If my kids can’t do something in class, will their teacher think, Their dad is dumb — is that why they’re not getting it?”

“The Blind Side” earned more than $300 million at the box office, and it brought widespread fame to the Tuohys. In 2014, they were interviewed at Baylor University by its then president, Kenneth Starr ; earlier guests at his on-campus speakers series included Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, and Sandra Day O’Connor, the Supreme Court justice. Later, the Tuohys appeared on an episode of the reality TV series “Below Deck” — the crew of a luxury yacht staged a tailgate-themed party for them on a Caribbean beach.

The limelight mainly focused on Leigh Anne, an interior decorator who began giving speeches for as much as $50,000 per engagement. She delivered a keynote address in 2018 at a United Way event in North Carolina, where previous years’ speakers included Soledad O’Brien and Maya Angelou. She continued to give speeches into 2023; an event scheduled for last November promoted her as “the adoptive mother of N.F.L. football star Michael Oher.”

This has been their consistent characterization of the relationship with Oher. In public appearances and in their 2010 book, “In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving,” the Tuohys have referred to him as their son and themselves as his adoptive parents. But they never adopted him. Instead, when he was 18, Sean and Leigh Anne petitioned to establish a conservatorship that gave them control over his finances and major life decisions; the legal measure was approved by a judge, despite the Tuohys acknowledging at the time that Oher had no known physical or psychological disabilities, which Tennessee state law requires be present for a conservatorship to be granted. It remained in force for two decades, through the end of his N.F.L. career, though it is not clear how the Tuohys exercised the power it gave them. Oher’s lawyers claim that the conservatorship gave the Tuohys a responsibility to look after his interests and put them above their own, and instead, they profited off him.

Oher’s lawsuit included a request to end the conservatorship, and the Probate Court judge, Kathleen Gomes, quickly dissolved it. (The Tuohys did not oppose the request.) She opened the hearing by saying that she had been a lawyer for decades, mostly practicing in the area of probate and conservatorship, and a judge for 10 years. “And in all my 43 years, I have never, ever seen a conservatorship being opened for someone who was not disabled,” she said from the bench. What will be litigated, assuming the case goes forward is Oher’s demand for unspecified monetary damages for the Tuohys’ alleged misuse of his name, image and likeness in promoting their public appearances.

The tangle and emotional complexities, even contradictions, at play among Oher and the Tuohys are evident in the fact that even today, Oher fondly recalls his time with the Tuohys. “Honestly, it was great. I had a bed to stay on. I was eating good. They got me a truck.” In his own book, published in 2011 and titled “I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to ‘The Blind Side’ and Beyond,” Oher includes this dedication: “To the Tuohy family, you are truly a blessing to me. Thank you for helping me to turn my dreams into reality.” Later in the book he writes, “The more time I spent with that family, the more time I felt like I had found a home.”

In the Tuohys’ book, after recounting how they learned that Oher would be named the No. 1 football recruit in the nation in the spring of his junior year, they write: “Suddenly, it seemed, we had the most sought-after football player in the country living in an upstairs bedroom.” They continued: “But the biggest event for all of us that spring was our adoption of Michael.” Oher says he did not move in with the Tuohys until that summer. It may seem like a small discrepancy, but his timing would not place him in the Tuohy home until he was already one of the most coveted college football recruits in the country. In our conversations, Oher referred several times to the Tuohys’ “narrative” and said that he had gone along with it for many years because telling a different story, and one at odds with the hit movie, seemed like more than he was capable of while he was devoting himself to the hard work of playing pro football.

Leigh Anne Tuohy, in an affidavit, has said that the use of the word adopted “was always meant in its colloquial sense, to describe the family relationship we felt with Mr. Oher; it was never meant as a legal term of art.” In Tennessee and in 27 other states and Washington, D.C., it’s legal to adopt an adult. It sometimes happens for estate-planning purposes or so one of the parties can play a role in making decisions about medical care and other issues. Oher was 18, legally an adult, when the conservatorship was established in December of his senior year of high school. “Adoption doesn’t have a colloquial meaning, and it’s not a word you throw around lightly,” one of Oher’s lawyers, Anne Johnson, told me. “As an 18-year-old, he was told that he was made a part of the family. He believed that, but it wasn’t true.”

Even before the movie and the invitations to give paid speeches, the Tuohys seemed to derive at least one benefit from welcoming Oher into their home: He chose to play football at Ole Miss, where they were major donors to the athletic program, or “boosters” in the argot of the National Collegiate Athletics Association. Since 2014, the practice facility for the men’s and women’s basketball teams has been known as the Tuohy Basketball Center .

The couple have never denied that they hoped Oher would play football at Ole Miss, but they have insisted that he made the choice on his own. In their telling, the conservatorship was a way to demonstrate to the N.C.A.A. that they did not exert influence over a nonfamily member by showering him with gifts. If the N.C.A.A., which sets eligibility rules for college sports, had concluded that was the case, it most likely would not have allowed Oher to play at Ole Miss. But after its investigation, it essentially decided to consider Oher as a member of the Tuohy family. When I asked Oher about his school choice, he told me that “it was kind of like osmosis. It became where I was going to go. But I want to be clear that I don’t regret it.”

One of Oher’s fondest childhood memories is the several weeks he spent in a psychiatric unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Memphis. He had become a ward of the state after child-welfare authorities determined that his mother could not care for him; he was committed to the hospital, as a 10- or 11-year-old, after he kept running away from foster homes and back to his mother. “That was the best time of my life up until then,” he says. “I was eating three meals a day. I had my own room, a TV and a VCR, and I was watching all kinds of movies.”

He kept running away even after he got out, and at some point, Oher figured, the authorities stopped looking for him. He was in and out of school and spent his happiest hours playing basketball in church gyms and football in a nearby park. “You would see Michael and then you wouldn’t,” Craig Vail, Oher’s closest childhood friend from Hurt Village, told me. “If he wasn’t around, I just figured he moved away, and then he’d come back, and we’d pick up on where we were and play together.” Oher steered clear of serious trouble. “If Michael didn’t like it, he wasn’t following along,” Vail says.

Quinterio Franklin, who played on the football and basketball teams at Briarcrest, lived on a country road, across the state line in Mississippi. “When Michael came to Briarcrest, I was like, ‘Cool, another Black guy,’ ” Franklin told me. “It was natural that we got close, because there weren’t many of us. He was a jokester, a people person, a lively personality.”

When I spoke to Franklin’s stepfather, Anthony Burrow, about Oher’s time in their household, he told me: “From my grandmom on up, we have always taken people into the family. Mike was a great kid, and he had spent the night once or twice with us. When Terio asked me about him staying with us full time, I called my sister, and she said, ‘It is a privilege when someone asks that of you.’ So he came over and made himself at home. We had four-wheelers and he became an avid four-wheeler. Everyone got to know him. He and Terio were like two peas in a pod.”

Oher lived with their family full time for roughly a year. It was the last place he lived before moving in with the Tuohys. “He somehow persuaded another Black kid on the Briarcrest basketball team, Quinterio Franklin, to let him use his house as a kind of base camp,” Lewis writes. Leigh Anne drove Oher there one night after a track meet, the book continues. “It was a trailer, ” she says — squalid quarters Oher needed to be rescued from. “That’s it,” she then tells Oher. “Get all your crap. You’re moving in with me.” After he lugs his belongings out in a garbage bag, she orders a “cleansing of the clothes.”

Until that moment, Lewis writes: “Leigh Anne had hoped that what they and other Briarcrest families had done for Michael added up to something like a decent life. Now that she knew it didn’t, she took over the management of that life. Completely.”

Oher drove me to see where he lived with Terio’s family. The house was at the end of a gravel driveway, off a winding lane called Church of Christ Road. It was not a trailer, but rather one of the prefabricated houses, common in the South, known as “Jim Walter Homes.” They were assembled on site, and buyers had to own the land. Burrow said the house was first owned by his grandparents and that it had four bedrooms. “When you’re rich and you have certain things, I imagine you have a different way of looking at the world,” he said. “Maybe it did look like a trailer to Ms. Tuohy.”

Burrow, who owns a small flooring company, said he understood why Oher left his family. “They gave him monetary gifts, took him shopping. He’s a kid, a young Black man who has had nothing. He’s going to run with that.”

I reached out to Joseph Crone, another high school teammate and now a lawyer. “ It was common knowledge he was living with Terio for a long time,” he told me. “They always came to school together. Before that, he lived with Steve” — whose father, Tony Henderson, first encouraged Oher to enroll in Briarcrest. “Right up to the start of summer practice before our senior year, I feel like he was kind of couch-surfing. He stayed with me a few times. He stayed with other guys too. We were all teammates so there was that level of comfort. We’d be like, ‘Hey, buddy, come crash at my house.’”

Oher was introduced to the wider world by one of America’s foremost nonfiction authors. Michael Lewis’s books tend to be about big systems and money — “Moneyball,” “The Big Short” and “Going Infinite,” for example — and he tells his stories through characters who are iconoclastic, even heroic. They see into the future in ways that others can’t. At about the same time that he was researching the importance of the left-tackle position in football (which protects a right-handed quarterback’s “blindside”) and the economic resources that N.F.L. teams devote to the position, he discovered that an old friend, Sean Tuohy, his classmate at a New Orleans private school from kindergarten through 12th grade, had a potential N.F.L. left tackle living in his house. The Tuohys and Michael Oher became his characters.

The book, which was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine , set everything into motion: the movie, the fame of its real-life characters and the current dispute. Without it, the Tuohys most likely would be little-known outside of Memphis and Oher would be no more famous than most of the other N.F.L. players who toiled as offensive linemen. It’s not uncommon for filmmakers to embellish the real-life stories they find in books, and “The Blind Side” movie certainly did. But the movie is faithful to the book’s tone — both are told through the Tuohys’ perspective, with Oher virtually silent — and both movie and book depart from reality in ways that exalt the Tuohys and, in Oher’s view, diminish him.

In the movie, Oher is the rare American male who knows so little about football that he must have it explained to him by a child: 10-year-old Sean Tuohy Jr., who moves a ketchup bottle and other condiments and spices around on a kitchen table to show him how players are positioned on the field. The scene is not in the book. But in Lewis’s rendering, Oher has no idea how to play when he first takes the field for Briarcrest. “When he’d been thrown into games during his junior year,” Lewis writes, “he had spent most of his time wandering around the field in search of someone to fall over.”

But this was the same season, his junior year, that Oher was named to the All-Metro team by The Commercial Appeal, the primary daily newspaper in Memphis. He keeps an image of the newspaper story in his cellphone. It’s more than a memento; it’s proof to him that he amounted to something, and was recognized for it, before the Tuohys intervened in his life. It was after that season that he was identified as one of the top college-football recruits in the nation.

Oher was a teenager finishing up high school, and then a freshman at Ole Miss, when Lewis was doing his research. Oher told me that he did not understand at the time why someone was interested in his story or how he would fit into the book. “I talked to him a little,” he said of Lewis, when I asked about his involvement.

Passages of the book now read as off-key. In characterizing Oher’s otherness at the wealthy and almost all-white Briarcrest school, Lewis describes him, variously, as “this huge Black kid” and “as lost as a Martian stumbling out of a crash landing.” His mother, Denise Oher, is “very large and very Black,” and in a brief meeting with her son Michael and Leigh Anne, she slurs her words and wears a “muumuu and a garish wig.” Sean Tuohy, who pitched in as an assistant football coach at Briarcrest, is credited by Lewis with a magical ability to instill confidence in teenage boys. He was said to reach out especially to the school’s few Black athletes. “I married a man who doesn’t know his own color,” he quotes Leigh Anne as saying .

After Oher learns that his father is dead — apparently having been thrown off a highway overpass — Leigh Anne tells him it might be for the best. “You didn’t know the man,” she says in Lewis’s book, and “one way or another, you are going to have money, and you know that he would have found you and made claims upon you.”

In April, I met Lewis at a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C. When I asked him what he believes caused the relationships to fracture among the people depicted in “The Blind Side,” he responded by talking about the economics of his book. “Let me give you the data points,” he said. “The book did poorly. It never found its market. Football people don’t really read books, compared to baseball people. And if they’re going to read one, they don’t want a chick flick in the middle of it.”

Hollywood, Lewis said, did not initially have strong interest in the book. But the film ultimately was produced by Alcon Entertainment, whose controlling shareholder and chairman of the board is Fred Smith, the FedEx founder and now the father-in-law of the Tuohys’ daughter.

Oher contends that he did not benefit fairly from the movie. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, in a response filed in the Tennessee court, state that the movie money was split five ways, with equal shares also going to the couple and their two biological children — a deal they say Oher verbally agreed to. He did not have his own lawyer representing him. The movie money was supposed to be paid directly to the Tuohys, then be distributed to the others.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, in court documents, say that Oher’s one-fifth share has come to just over $138,000. “You know they did not steal his movie money, right?” Lewis said to me. “This whole thing starts with that. It starts with a lie. I would just be very suspicious about everything else.”

Lewis focused on the material benefits Oher got from the Tuohys. “Did you get a sense of how much money they spent on him when he was living with them? They bought him a truck. They bought him clothes. They housed him.” He continued: “There’s not a whiff of possibility the Tuohys are going to milk money off Michael Oher. You’ve gotta sort of know more about them. They’re rich. And generous. They aren’t stingy rich people. They’re openhanded rich people.”

When I brought up aspects of his book that I believed were inaccurate — among them, that Oher barely knew how to play football when he first came to live with the Tuohys — Lewis said that he was confident that the people who witnessed Oher’s story in real time had provided him with an accurate account. I told him I had seen Terio Franklin’s house and that I did not think its description as a trailer that served as Oher’s temporary base camp was correct. “You should ask the Tuohys about that,” he replied.

In a profile of Lewis in The Guardian last October, he seemed to attribute Oher’s “change of behavior,” as he put it, to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease that afflicts some football players, which can only be diagnosed after death, through a brain autopsy. “This is what happens to football players who get hit in the head,” he said. “They run into problems with violence and aggression.” Lewis told me his inference that Oher had C.T.E. was made in anger, and he regretted it, but he then repeated it. “It should be part of the conversation about Michael Oher,” he said.

Last year, not long before he filed his lawsuit, Oher published a second book, “When Your Back’s Against the Wall.” In it, he writes that the story people think they know about him makes it look “like I was sitting there waiting for a handout” and discounts “the years of survival, resisting the streets, making the most of myself.” Lewis, however, said he was told that without the Tuohys, Oher was headed for a life of destitution, or crime, even though Oher had no history of anything of the sort. “This is what everyone told me,” he said. “He was on a course that was very bad. He was going be a bodyguard for a gang in Hurt Village.”

It was not always clear to me whether Oher felt betrayed more by the Tuohys or by the movie. This is understandable, given the extensive overlaps between the filmmakers and the Tuohy family. The movie was based on their friend’s book, produced by the company controlled by their daughter’s future father-in-law and executive-produced by his daughter. The daughter of another family friend, the lawyer who represented them in the conservatorship, appeared in a small role in the movie. Sean Tuohy has seemed to suggest that he had the right to approve the script. “I had to give them the rights to use our name,” he said, while sitting at dinner with the captain of the yacht in the 2017 “Below Deck” episode. “And I said, ‘I’ll give you the rights to use the name if I get to read the script and approve it or unapprove it.’ ”

Sandra Bullock spent time with Leigh Anne Tuohy in order to get to know the character she would be playing. Tim McGraw met Sean on the set. The first time Quinton Aaron met Oher was in the tunnel leading to the field before a Ravens game — after the movie came out. “I was told that it might be better that way,” Aaron told me. “I can’t remember if it was the director or one of the producers, but they said he was a young homeless kid in the movie, but that’s not who he is now. At the time, he was getting ready for the N.F.L.” Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy attended the 2009 movie premiere in New York and the Academy Awards in Hollywood the following March. Oher went to neither. He told me that he could not recall if he was invited to either event but would have declined if he had been.

Oher now feels duped by the Tuohys. He enjoyed the comforts of their home, but while he was off at their alma mater playing football, the couple and their friends and associates took part in a project that is likely to follow him the rest of his life. “The first time I heard ‘I love you,’ it was Sean and Leigh Anne saying it,” he told me. “When that happens at 18, you become vulnerable. You let your guard down and then you get everything stripped from you. It turns into a hurt feeling.” He paused for a moment. “I don’t want to make this about race, but what I found out was that nobody says ‘I love you’ more than coaches and white people. When Black people say it, they mean it.”

“The Blind Side” brought attention and pride to the Briarcrest community, but the falling out among its protagonists has caused many to feel caught in the middle. The principal who agreed to enroll Oher declined to comment for this article. Hugh Freeze, Briarcrest’s coach at the time, took a job on the football staff of Ole Miss before Oher’s freshman season and is now the head coach at Auburn, his fifth college head-coaching job; he’s on a six-year contract that pays him $6.5 million annually. “Michael is dear to our family,” he replied by email while declining my request for an interview.

Oher has a legal team of four lawyers behind him, including Don Barrett, who is based in Lexington, Miss., and who was one of the lead plaintiffs’ lawyers in the first settlement of the lawsuits against the tobacco industry . “ Sean and Leigh Anne self-dealed in every way you could imagine,” he told me.

The Tuohys are represented by two Tennessee lawyers, neither of whom would comment for this article. A prominent Los Angeles entertainment lawyer, Martin Singer , who has acted as their spokesman, issued a statement after the lawsuit was filed. “Anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that the outlandish claims made by Michael Oher about the Tuohy family are hurtful and absurd,” it said. “The idea that the Tuohys have ever sought to profit off Mr. Oher is not only offensive, it is transparently ridiculous.” He characterized the lawsuit as a “shakedown effort.”

I asked the Tuohys, through a representative they are working with, if they would refer me to friends I could contact who might tell their side of the story. They declined. They also declined to answer written questions or participate in the fact-checking of this article. Andrew Kosove, the co-chief executive (with Broderick Johnson) of Alcon Entertainment, told me that he was saddened by the dispute and did not understand why Oher believes he was owed more money from the movie. “No one did anything dishonest,” he says. “Leigh Anne and Sean love Michael. That is the tragedy of this story. There is pain to go around. My prayer and Broderick’s prayer is that ultimately there will be a reconciliation, because I believe these are people who love each other.”

The careers of professional athletes typically do not last beyond their 30s, at which point many of them struggle to grasp who they are without their sport. I got the sense that for Oher, whose whole life has been a battle against long odds, that feeling was amplified. After he left the N.F.L. in 2017, he finally had time to look back, and little of what he saw made sense. Most of his siblings, he told me, “chose the streets.” The success he achieved was quickly accompanied by a bizarre and disorienting kind of fame — one in which everyone knew his story, except that it wasn’t actually his story.

When we talked, his tone was usually matter-of-fact, almost stoic. He did not display emotion, but he sometimes referred to events in the past as having been painful. The release of the movie just as he was starting his N.F.L. career was a big blow. “That’s my heartbreak right there,” he said. “It was as soon as I got there, I was defined.”

He played eight seasons of pro football, a long career by N.F.L. standards. He began with a goal of making the Hall of Fame; a knee injury, a concussion and chronic migraines led to his leaving the league. He said that drugs prescribed for his headaches caused him to gain 100 pounds and that he spent a couple of years only periodically venturing out of his house and sometimes not even leaving his bedroom.

In 2017, he was charged with a misdemeanor assault after a physical altercation with an Uber driver. The charge was later dismissed, but the incident, and the fact that it made the news, filled him with shame. Oher described to me another moment, two years later: He was on a flight to a medical appointment, could not fasten his seatbelt and feared he might be removed from the plane. “I’m like, ‘Man, I’m going to be in the news — Michael Oher kicked off a plane for being too fat.’ ” A flight attendant brought him a seatbelt extender. He changed his diet, went back to the gym and, as he put it, restored himself to “not my playing shape, but normal-person shape.”

He said that he believed his separation from football would have gone more smoothly if he had been healthy when he left the game. I suggested that maybe after the life he had led — moving from home to home; stealing food to survive; fighting his way up through Briarcrest and into the N.F.L. — he just found himself mentally exhausted when all the striving stopped. “You hit it on the head,” he said. “That’s a big component of it.”

He earned $34 million from the three teams he played for, according to the website Over the Cap , which tracks N.F.L. salaries. “I worked hard for that moment when I was done playing, and saved my money so I could enjoy the time,” he said after I mentioned that many people would believe he had filed the lawsuit because he needed money. “I’ve got millions of dollars. I’m fine.”

In a response filed in court, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy claim that Oher had become “increasingly estranged” from them and began demanding money. He referred to the Tuohys as “thieves” in one of the texts that the couple’s lawyers included in court filings. “If something isn’t resolve this Friday, I’m going to go ahead and tell the world, how I was robbed by my suppose to be parents,” he wrote in another. In a third text, he said, “Get with Fred and get my money together” — a reference to Fred Smith, the Alcon chairman.

I asked Oher about the texts. “I was just still trying to figure things out,” he said. “I didn’t think anything of it.” He claimed the texts “lit a fuse,” and he started receiving checks for the movie for the first time. The Tuohys’ lawyers have said Oher had already been receiving royalty checks, a claim he denies.

Oher spends his time, in part, taking his children to their sporting events, and as we drove around Memphis, I could hear the chairs and tent he sets up on the sidelines of their games rattling around in the back of his truck. The Ohers have a foundation that raises money to provide scholarships and mentors to disadvantaged children in Nashville. He also spends a considerable amount of time at the gym. “I feel like there’s one more time when I can get in elite shape,” he said. When I asked why that was important, he said: “I’ll feel good. I’ll walk around happier. I’ll have that confidence it gives you.”

The lawsuit, it seemed to me, is part of a different kind of rebuilding project, an effort to make himself emotionally whole. Several times he referred to having been “robbed” by the Tuohys, which I came to understand as having a double meaning: robbed of money and perhaps, even more so, robbed of an identity.

But why had it taken him so long to go public and file the lawsuit? Why now? “Pro football’s a hard job,” he said. “You have to be locked in 100 percent. I went along with their narrative because I really had to focus on my N.F.L. career, not things off the field.” Away from the game, his focus turned to what he believed was his fair share of the money generated by the movie and the myths spawned by it.

“For a long time, I was so angry mentally,” he said. “With what I was going through. I want to be the person I was before ‘The Blind Side,’ personality-wise. I’m still working on it.”

Joshua Rashaad McFadden, a visual artist and assistant professor of photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received International Photography Awards for ‘‘After Selma,’’ ‘‘Come to Selfhood’’ and ‘‘Unrest in America,’’ as well as a 2023 Lucie Photo Book Prize.

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Back in the 1990s, Alexandra Paul was looking out for her friend and costar Jaason Simmons .

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE at the After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun premiere on Aug. 26, Paul looked back on her time on Baywatch and how she and Simmons let tabloids run stories about their relationship so he wouldn't have to explain his sexuality.

"Back in the 1990s, 30 years ago, if you were a gay actor in Hollywood, not only would that affect your career negatively, but it could also affect you just out and about in the streets," she explains, adding, "You weren't as safe."

In the '90s hit Baywatch , Simmons played the role of Logan, "a heterosexual guy who wanted to be [with] every woman on the show," says Paul describing her costar's character. Behind closed doors, Simmons identified as gay.

"That just shows what a good actor he is because yes, he was gay," Paul says. "He and I were very, very close on the show and I became his beard, so to speak."

She reveals that she and Simmons were "so affectionate with each other," that rumors of their relationship ran wild every time they were photographed together at various events.

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"We just let them think what they thought," she shrugs.

Simmons also spoke with PEOPLE at the premiere and says the relationship buzz "was sort of a byproduct of us being friends."

He adds, "It was like people saw us together and then that started on its own. So, we just went along, because I was only 22, 23 at the time."

Paul, who married Ian Murray in 2000, says that her husband was nothing less than "supportive" of her acting career and the gesture of friendship she gave to Simmons.

"When there were stories about me and Jaason being together, he understood why we were doing that," she shares. "And if I have a love scene in a movie or a kissing scene, it doesn't perturb him. He knows I'm always coming home for him and I'm always hot for him."

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In 2008, Simmons came out as gay and went public with his relationship with his then fiancé John O'Callaghan. While speaking to TooFab in 2014, he revealed that his Baywatch cast members had been privy to his sexuality and had always been "fantastic."

"Everybody knew, I just didn't speak about my private life, I'm pretty shy and introverted," he explained at the time. "So to go in a show when you're like that, it takes a lot of adjusting. I was like, baby steps. I was in a relationship for the whole time and they were all aware and it was fantastic and no issue."

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After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun  premieres Wednesday, Aug. 28 on Hulu.

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