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Never Gonna Give You Up was played 154 million times on YouTube in one year. The man who wrote it got $16
In the video below, Rick Astley on what it's like when the biggest song of your life becomes the internet's favorite prank
In 1987 the song went to number one in 25 countries. Astley was 21
Twenty years later, the internet turned it into a joke. You click a link, you get Rick. They called it rickrolling
By 2008 the video had more than 154 million plays
Co-writer Pete Waterman opened his royalty statement for that year. £11, about $16
"I rang my publisher and they said 'You'll be all right', until I saw the royalty statement"
Astley did even worse. By 2010 he said he'd made about $12 from it
Here's why. Astley didn't write the song, so he only gets a performer's share. The label owns the recording. And YouTube's early deals with music companies paid almost nothing per view
The video passed 1 billion views in 2021. Millions of people still get rickrolled every year
Astley says he finds it bizarre and funny, and that his main worry was his daughter being embarrassed
The joke made the song immortal. The money went almost everywhere except the people who made it
Did rickrolling give Rick Astley a second career, or did the internet steal his song for free?
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Charlie Munger was a lawyer with 8 kids to feed and no family money. He became a billionaire anyway.
In the video below, he explains exactly how. He spent less than he earned, every single year, and invested the rest. After 13 years, his investments were worth more than everything he had made as a lawyer, before taxes.
He did it in his spare time, with what he called "little tiny sums."
And his very first investment almost wiped him out. "It was hell on earth."
He kept going anyway, became Warren Buffett's partner, and died at 99 worth about $2.6 billion.
What's harder for you, earning more or spending less?
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Elon Musk lost a $56 billion pay package to a man who owned 9 Tesla shares. A judge voided the deal, then ordered Tesla to pay that man's lawyers $345 million, after they asked for $5.6 billion.
Then Delaware's Supreme Court gave it all back. By then the package was worth $139 billion. The man with 9 shares got $1.
In the video below, Musk walks on stage right after shareholders voted for his pay a second time: "Hot damn, I love you guys."
In 2018 Tesla's board offered Musk options on 304 million shares, about 9% of the company, if Tesla hit a set of huge targets. It hit every one.
Richard Tornetta, a former heavy metal drummer with 9 shares, sued that same year.
In January 2024 a Delaware judge struck the deal down and called it "unfathomable."
His lawyers asked for $5.6 billion in fees. The judge called that a windfall and gave them $345 million.
In June 2024 shareholders voted for the package again. In December the judge rejected it again.
Musk moved Tesla's legal home from Delaware to Texas.
On December 19, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed it, unanimously. Throwing the deal out, it said, left Musk "uncompensated for his time and efforts over a period of six years." The lawyers' fee was cut by about 80%. Damages: $1.
Musk said he was "vindicated."
9 shares froze the biggest paycheck in history for 7 years. The final bill for the man who started it: $1.
Did the system protect shareholders, or did 9 shares nearly cost Musk $139 billion?
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Aaron Hernandez had security cameras all over his own house. On the night of 17 June 2013, the night Odin Lloyd died, his own cameras recorded him walking through the house holding what prosecutors said was a gun. A few minutes later the same cameras recorded him picking up his baby daughter. Two hours after that, Lloyd was shot dead in an industrial park down the road.
Nobody put those cameras there but him.
In the video below it is all on his own footage, one beat after another: the cigarette in the driveway, the two men arriving at midnight, the shape in his hand, and then his daughter. Watch how little time passes between the last two.
Prosecutors froze the stills and brought in Kyle Aspinwall, a former police chief who now works for Glock. He told the court the back strap, the magazine well and the trigger guard all matched. In his opinion it was a Glock pistol. The ballistics in the case pointed to a Glock 21.
The defence said it could have been a TV remote.
The weapon was never found.
His nanny was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. She agreed to it and never actually signed it, so when the trial came she was free to talk. She told the court about a night he offered her a lift to her car and got on the highway instead. Odin Lloyd was in the back seat.
In April 2015 a jury convicted him of first-degree murder. Life without parole.
On 19 April 2017, days after being acquitted in a separate double-murder case, he was found dead in his cell. He was 27.
That November, Boston University announced what they had found in his brain. The most severe case of CTE they had ever seen in anyone his age.
Prosecutors said his own cameras were the case. The defence said you cannot convict a man on a blurry shape in his own hallway. Which side would you have been on?
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Cory Chase's real name is Audrey Wirtzberger. She was born in New Jersey in 1981 to a couple named Olga and Larry. At 19 she joined the United States Army. After the Army she worked in food service. By her mid-twenties she was filming amateur porn for a company called Southern Charms. By 2007 she was shooting for Reality Kings in Florida. Two years later she and her husband Robert Leon quit their day jobs and went into porn full-time. They have been married since 2005. He still works alongside her.
She became the face of the most searched porn genre in America. The genre is called fauxcest. Stepmom scenes. In 2018 "stepmom" was the fourth most popular search term on Pornhub. In 2019, 2021, and 2022 it was seventh. She didn't create the category. She is just the woman the algorithm chose to represent it.
In September 2017, United States Senator Ted Cruz's official Twitter account liked a two-minute clip of hers. The video was called Dicks for Two. She played a stepmother who walks in on her stepdaughter having sex and decides to join in. Cruz blamed a staffer. The clip became the fastest porn video to reach one million views. His Republican Party had called porn "a public health crisis" in its platform months earlier. As Texas solicitor general, Cruz had once defended a state law banning the sale of sex toys.
She found out about the whole thing while sitting in the dark during Hurricane Irma with no power and almost no internet access. She tweeted: "So I hear I am trending with Ted Cruz. I am literally in the dark."
When reporters asked her about it she said she did not like that he watched it for free. He pirated that video. He should have paid Reality Kings for a subscription.
She is 45 years old. She has been in the industry for almost two decades. She won Best MILF Performer at the AVN Awards. She is still active. She is still married to the same man she married before any of this started. They built the business together.
Most people who have heard the name Cory Chase will never know her real name is Audrey Wirtzberger, that she served in the U.S. Army, or that a sitting United States senator publicly liked her work and then called it a staffing issue.
Did Ted Cruz's staffer accidentally like a porn video, or did a senator who built his career on family values get caught watching the most popular genre in America and blame the nearest intern?
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Sasha Grey left porn, starred in a Steven Soderbergh film, landed a role on HBO’s Entourage, and was trying to start a new life. Then she spent one morning reading a children’s book to first graders in Compton. Parents went to war, and the school district publicly denied she had ever been there. There were photos.
She grew up Catholic in Sacramento and graduated high school a year early. She says she carried a lot of guilt about her own fantasies and wanted to show other people they didn’t have to feel that shame. Right after she turned 18 she sent her photos and a written mission statement to adult agencies. Nobody answered. She was already driving home when one agent finally called back. A week later she moved to LA, rented a pool house in North Hollywood because she had no credit history, and shot her first scene.
She became one of the biggest names in the industry. In 2009 Soderbergh cast her as the lead in The Girlfriend Experience. At the end of that year, at 21, she quietly stopped shooting. No announcement. She was writing, making music, acting, and refusing to pick a side when both worlds demanded she did. She didn’t make it official for two more years.
In November 2011 she volunteered for Read Across America and spent a morning at Emerson Elementary in Compton. She read Dog Breath, a silly children’s book about a dog with bad breath, to first and third graders and tweeted about how sweet the kids were.
Then TMZ got the photos. Parents flooded the school with complaints. One asked why the school couldn’t find a firefighter or a police officer instead. Another said people like her shouldn’t be around children at all. The district told reporters she had never been in the building, even though the pictures were all over the internet.
She didn’t hide. She said she had a past some people disagreed with, but it didn’t define who she was. She has never said she regrets it.
Today she’s a streamer, a DJ and a published novelist. A song she wrote about her late father ended up in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. She left porn 16 years ago. Some people will never let her.
Should a former porn star be allowed to volunteer with children, or were the parents right to be furious?
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Al Capone reportedly earned about $105 million a year, roughly $2 billion today. in 1928 he paid $40,000 ($700,000 today) for a Miami Beach mansion. in 1931 he went to prison for something other than racketeering or murder.
it was unpaid taxes. in 1929 seven of his rivals were killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the case that put him away had nothing to do with it.
the mansion stood on Palm Island and covered about 6,000 square feet. it sold in 2021 for $15.5 million and was torn down in 2023.
prosecutors later listed how he spent. $8,000 on diamond belt buckles. $116,000 lost on horse races. $6,500 on meat for guests at a poker party.
a Treasury team led by agent Frank Wilson spent more than two years going through about 2 million documents. they found three ledgers recording cash, marked only with first initials, and traced cash through cashier's checks.
prosecutors said he owed $215,080 in taxes on about $1 million of income from 1924 to 1929. reports say the jury was replaced at the last minute after bribery claims.
on October 17, 1931 the jury found him guilty on 5 of 23 counts. he got 11 years, a $50,000 fine and about $7,700 in court costs.
in 1934 he was moved to Alcatraz. in 1936 another inmate stabbed him. in 1938 he was diagnosed with syphilis. he was released in November 1939 because of failing health and died on January 25, 1947 at 48, at his Palm Island home.
$215,080 in unpaid taxes put him away: justice or a loophole?
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In 2007, Kanye West's mother died the day after three plastic surgeries by Dr. Jan Adams. Eight years later, the surgeon said Kanye's family was to blame.
In the video below, Adams tells his side and asks Kanye to clear his name. "Kanye West can end this by telling the truth."
Donda West was 58 when Adams did all three surgeries in one day. She went home to recover, and her nephew, a nurse, was to look after her.
She died the next day, and the coroner linked her death to heart disease and the surgery. Critics accused Adams of doing too many procedures at once.
In 2015, Kanye blamed himself. "If I had never moved to LA, she'd be alive," he told Q magazine.
That September, Adams said the nephew had gone to a baby shower. Donda was left lying flat on her back, he says: "All you had to do is sit her up."
The nephew denied Adams's claims. No one was officially blamed, and California passed the "Donda West Law": a medical exam before any cosmetic surgery.
Do you think a medical exam before surgery could have saved Donda, or better care after it?
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At his sentencing in a Kansas courtroom in 2005, Dennis Rader stood up and spoke for twenty-seven minutes. He went through the ten people he had murdered one at a time, and for each of them he had found something they had in common with him. One had spent summers on her grandparents' farm. So had he. One had walked the halls of his old high school. One had worked where he worked.
In the video below he talks about some of them.
Kathryn Bright was 21. He said she had spent time on her grandparents' farm, and that he had too, and that he had many fond memories of it. He said she had gone to his old high school and had probably walked the same hallways. He said she had worked at the Coleman plant, like he had, just trying to keep her head above water.
Then he said: and I took that from her.
Dolores Davis was 62. He said she loved animals, and that he had worked in animal control, and that people in Park City would tell you he was always good with animals. He said he had read that she spent her last Christmas with her family, and that he had done that too, and that it was a wonderful time.
Then he said: and I took that from her.
Nancy Fox was 25. He said she was a wonderful young lady, well organised, a hard worker. He also said he had tracked her just like a predator.
Marine Hedge was 53 and lived on his street. He said he used to walk past her place. That she was a gardener and he loves to garden. That she went to a church he had been to with the Boy Scouts.
Joseph Otero was 38, a retired Air Force master sergeant. He said he had been in the Air Force as well. That Otero was a husband and he was a husband. That Otero had been a pilot and he had always been fascinated by aerodynamics. He said their threads were close.
Julie Otero was 34. She had worked at Coleman too. He said she was a lot like his wife. A loving mother who raised kids.
Josephine Otero was 11. He said she would have been a lot like his own daughter at that age. That she played with Barbie dolls. That she liked to draw, and he likes to draw.
Joseph Otero II was 9. He said the boy had been just like him once. A boy and a dog. He said a boy and a dog is a thing you have to have when you are a kid.
Shirley Vian was 24. He said she was probably a very beloved mother.
Vicki Wegerle was 28. He said she played the piano, and that the piano was one thing he had always wanted to learn.
When the list was finished he said: I hope I haven't left somebody out.
Then he asked the court for some things. He said a lien had been put on his house and that his wife was the final victim. He corrected the prosecution on two details he felt they had got wrong, because he wanted the record to be accurate.
And he asked for his wallet back, so that he could take the family photographs out of it before they took him away.
He got 175 years.
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🚨The installer was real, signed by OpenAI. The file sitting next to it turned your PC into a crypto miner.
Check Point researchers found fake "new versions" of ChatGPT and Claude on GitHub — "GPT-5.6 Sol", "GPT-6 Astra", "Claude Opus" — ranking high in Google search.
What was in the download:
• A genuine, signed Setup.exe from OpenAI or Anthropic
• A malicious file next to it, winmm.dll
• The real installer loads that file on its own. The signature checks out. The infection happens anyway.
What it does:
• Creates a scheduled task disguised as Microsoft that runs at every startup
• Runs the XMRig crypto miner through Tor
• Pauses mining while you're using the PC, so you don't notice the slowdown
• The loader can also download other malware, not just the miner
Timeline:
• June: an earlier version used a fake Cursor AI app
• Aug 30, Aug 31, Sep 4: malicious ChatGPT/Claude releases uploaded
The real risk now:
"A new version of an AI tool" is perfect bait. People search for it, click the top result, and see a valid signature. A signed file only proves who made that file, not what it loads next to it. This campaign targets Windows.
If you use ChatGPT or Claude: download them only from openai.com and claude.ai, never from a GitHub page or a search result.
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Manchester United had spent nearly $500 million on signings under Erik ten Hag. Manchester City still beat them 3–0 at Old Trafford.
“Why will you not listen?” Gary Neville snapped at Jamie Carragher on live TV.
October 29, 2023. Carragher wanted to know what all that money had actually built. Nearly 18 months into Ten Hag’s tenure, he still couldn’t identify how United were supposed to play.
Neville pointed to the people running the club. With Jim Ratcliffe’s proposed investment hanging over the football department, he believed the uncertainty was damaging everyone beneath it.
Good players and respected managers kept arriving. The same problems kept following.
“They come here and it’s a graveyard for them.”
Carragher wasn’t accepting that as an explanation for everything. Ownership uncertainty didn’t decide what the manager coached from Monday to Friday. When Neville interrupted, he pushed back:
“Gary, let me finish.”
The transfer spending made that argument harder to escape. Antony alone had cost roughly $95 million before potential add-ons. Roy Keane argued that too many expensive signings weren’t delivering.
Then Carragher got to the part that made the spending look even worse.
United had brought in Casemiro and Christian Eriksen in 2022. A year later, they added Mason Mount and Sofyan Amrabat. In Carragher’s view, they were already trying to replace the midfield they had just assembled.
Neville agreed that recruitment was a problem. He blamed a club that kept letting each new manager dictate the shopping list.
They disagreed over who should answer for it. But by the end, both were describing the same expensive cycle: buy the players the manager wants, lose faith in the plan, and start spending again.
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Dr. Dre gave up his 50% of Death Row Records just to get away from Suge Knight. Suge kept 100% and called it “the greatest thing in the world for me.”
Dre later said in court that he didn’t get a single royalty payment from Death Row for 13 years.
In the video below, it’s September 1996, months after Dre left. Suge says the company might be worth a billion dollars, and now he owns 100% of it.
“You didn’t have to give him nothing but his walking papers. That’s great.” Then he says Dre didn’t even make “California Love.”
Dre and Suge started Death Row in 1991. Dre made the music. “The Chronic” turned the label into a giant, and then came Snoop Dogg’s debut.
By 1996, Dre wanted out. He left his half of the label and the rights to his records behind. In return, he was supposed to get royalties on the music he made there.
He started a new label, Aftermath. “I’ll be able to sell just as many records, if not more,” he said. “And you’ll see that.”
He signed Eminem. Then 50 Cent. Then Kendrick Lamar.
In 2014, Apple paid $3 billion for his headphone company, Beats.
The case for Suge: Dre signed that deal himself. Death Row kept selling without him. Tupac’s “All Eyez on Me” came out there that same year.
Death Row went bankrupt in 2006. Suge Knight is now serving 28 years in prison.
One man kept 100% of what he called a billion-dollar label. The other walked away with nothing and built something bigger.
So was walking away Dre’s smartest move, or did Suge rob him?
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Shakira paid Spain an $8 million fine and took a 3-year suspended sentence to end a $15 million tax case, after prosecutors asked for 8 years in prison. Their proof she lived there was Gerard Piqué, the boyfriend she later wrote a breakup diss about.
Now a Spanish court has ordered the tax office to give her back $64 million. 8 times the fine she paid, because Spain came up 20 days short.
In the video below, Shakira explains why women have spent too long hiding their pain, even in front of their own kids.
She met Piqué filming the 2010 World Cup song. They had two sons and lived in Barcelona.
Spain said she owed tax for 2012 to 2014. Her side said she was touring the world and wasn't a resident. On top of prison, prosecutors asked for a $26 million fine.
The tax office went through her social media posts to count the days she spent in the country.
In June 2022 she and Piqué split. Piqué had paid his own tax fraud fine back in 2019.
In November 2023, on the first day of her trial, she took the deal. "I need to move past the stress and emotional toll of the last several years." She had already moved to Miami with her boys.
Then came the 2011 case. Spain had charged her more than $64 million in tax and penalties for that year, again pointing to her relationship with Piqué.
In May a national court ruled the tax office could only prove 163 days in Spain. The legal line is 183. Spain has to pay it all back with interest, unless it wins an appeal.
"There was never any fraud," she said.
This fall she's back in Spain. For a concert residency in Madrid.
Spain used her love life as evidence. Now that evidence could cost Spain $64 million.
Did Shakira beat the tax office, or did she pay for the years they could prove?
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Christy Mack had an estimated net worth of $500,000. Then, in 2014, she had to climb a fence to escape a man who was trying to kill her.
“If I do not leave now, I will die.”
Mack was an adult film actress. Her ex, Jonathan Koppenhaver, was a professional MMA fighter known as War Machine.
He had arrived unannounced at her Las Vegas home and attacked her friend, Corey Thomas. While he was beating Thomas, Mack managed to call 911.
After Thomas left, the violence continued against her.
She suffered a broken nose, a fractured eye socket and a lacerated liver. Several of her teeth were knocked out.
In the interview below, she recalls hearing him searching through drawers downstairs. He was looking for a knife. She knew she had to move before he came back.
She escaped through the back door, climbed a fence and went from house to house until someone answered and called for help.
Police arrested Koppenhaver a week later.
In 2017, a jury convicted him on 29 counts. That June, he was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison, with parole eligibility at 71.
Later that year, Mack spoke to Inside Edition about her recovery and helping other people experiencing domestic violence.
Asked about the sentence, she said she felt safer knowing how long he would be away.
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Michael Jackson died about $500 million in debt. A song catalog he bought for $41.5 million in 1985 later sold for $750 million. His father wasn't in the will.
The clip opens in a Las Vegas shop, where he's buying vases at $275,000 each. Then what he earned against what he spent. Then Paul McCartney on how Michael ended up owning the Beatles songs. Then Joe Jackson, three days after his son died.
McCartney gave him the idea himself: think about music publishing. Michael said he'd buy Paul's songs. Paul thought it was a joke. Years later he asked for a raise on his own work. The answer, he says: "That's just business."
The math.
1985: the ATV catalog, with most of the Beatles songs: $41.5 million, by most reports.
1995: merged with Sony. He kept half of the bigger company.
2005: income about $20 million a year, spending $30 million to $40 million.
2009: died owing about $500 million, by reports and a later court filing.
2016: his half sold to Sony for $750 million. About 18 times the 1985 price, roughly 10% a year for 31 years.
2024: Sony reportedly paid at least $600 million for half of his own catalog.
2026: the film "Michael" passed $1 billion, the first biopic to do it.
The will: 40% to his mother, 40% to his three children, 20% to charity. Joe Jackson, who had built and managed the Jackson 5, wasn't named. He asked the estate for more than $15,000 a month. A judge shut the door on any inheritance.
Income never saved him. One asset did. He spent more than he earned for years and borrowed against the catalog, and it only worked because no one ever forced the sale while he was alive. Ruin takes one bad day. He didn't have it, and the family collected everything after.
You owe $500 million and own one asset that keeps growing. Do you sell it and walk away free, or keep borrowing against it and hope you outlast the debt?
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Christy Carlson Romano was paid $6,000 an episode on Disney’s Even Stevens. Her co-star, Shia LaBeouf, got $12,000.
At 21, she fired her own mother.
In the video below, she explains where the money went.
She was 13 when she booked the show. She and her mom left Connecticut and her three siblings behind for Los Angeles.
Every check got split: 10% to her agent, 15% to her manager, 5% to a business manager, 30 to 35% to taxes. “You’re making less than half.”
Her mom ran her career and her money.
At 21, with a book deal and a record deal, she made a million dollars in one year.
Nobody told her to save. No house, no rental property.
Then a boyfriend asked how much money she had in the bank. She had no idea. “I think that your family is taking from you,” he told her.
She was paying her mom a salary and renting her mom’s apartment as an “office.”
She went no contact with her entire family, took back her money and fired her mom.
The case for her mom: she moved across the country with a 13-year-old. In 2000 she wrote to Christy’s agent: “Shia receives $12,000 per episode and Christy $6,000… Christy wants what Shia is getting.”
Today she still helps her mom financially. “I just wish that she would have had the foresight to say, ‘Hey, let’s get you a house.’”
Her co-star got $12,000 an episode. She got $6,000, and her mom got a salary.
So did her mom take her money, or just never teach her to keep it?
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The three actors of The Blair Witch Project made $500 a week, and the film took $248 million at the box office.
When it passed $100 million, the studio sent them a fruit basket.
In the video below, Heather Donahue recalls strangers on the street asking the actors for their ticket money back. "And I'm like, oh honey, I didn't get any of the money."
The actors shot the film themselves, on handheld cameras, with no union. Their page-and-a-half deal memo promised them 1% of net profits if the film grossed over $1 million.
The marketing presented the actors as dead. Donahue says they "weren't really allowed to be alive until the box office numbers started to drop."
Later the actors sued the studio over their names and faces in ads for the sequel, and settled. Forbes estimates each got about $375,000, mostly from settlements, against about $1.3 million under the original deal.
Lionsgate owns the film now, and the actors want payments in line with a union contract. Joshua Leonard wrote that it's "25 years of disrespect from the folks who've pocketed the lion's share" of the profits.
Lionsgate declined to comment. Now the studio is making a new Blair Witch with Blumhouse.
Was a fruit basket for $100 million at the box office a thank-you, or a way of mocking the actors?
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The 1960 Yankees outscored the Pirates 55-27 in the World Series. They won games 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0.
They lost the series.
Pittsburgh won the other four, every one of them close: 6-4, 3-2, 5-2. Then Game 7 at Forbes Field turned into one of the strangest games ever played.
The Pirates go up 4-0. The Yankees come back and lead 7-4 in the eighth. Then a routine double-play grounder takes a bad hop and hits shortstop Tony Kubek in the throat. He leaves the game, the inning stays alive, and catcher Hal Smith hits a three-run homer over the left-field wall. Pirates 9-7.
Top of the ninth, the Yankees tie it 9-9.
Bottom of the ninth. Bill Mazeroski, the Pirates' second baseman, known for his glove, leads off against Ralph Terry. Ball one. Then the second pitch goes over the left-field wall.
It was the first walk-off home run to end a World Series, and it came in a Game 7. Mazeroski rounds third waving his helmet, and the fans are on the field before he gets home.
The Yankees' Bobby Richardson drove in 12 runs and was named Series MVP, the only one ever picked from the losing team. Casey Stengel was out as Yankees manager days later.
28 more runs, three blowouts, and nothing to show for it. Has there ever been a stranger World Series?
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Michael Oher was the homeless kid in The Blind Side, a $300 million hit that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar. In 2023, he says he found out the family from the movie never adopted him.
They had made themselves his conservators instead. For almost 20 years they had legal control over his deals.
In the video below, Good Morning America visits the Tuohys in 2009 and tells the country that Michael was "eventually adopted by the family."
Oher was 18 when he signed the papers in 2004. He says he was told it was part of the adoption.
Two years later the Tuohys negotiated the movie deal. His lawsuit says Sean, Leigh Anne and their two kids were each promised $225,000 plus 2.5% of the profits.
Sean Tuohy first said they hadn't made any money from the film. Then he said everyone, Michael included, got about $14,000.
Their own accounting later showed the family received more than $432,000 from the studios, and paid Oher $138,311 in ten checks over 16 years.
Oher's lawyers put it simply: "Without Mr. Oher, there would be no movie."
And one detail tells you how it looked from the other side. The Tuohys' lawyer said they never needed his money, because Sean Tuohy sold his company for $220 million.
In 2023 a judge ended the conservatorship. She said she was disturbed he had ever been put in one.
The Tuohys deny taking advantage of him and called his lawsuit ludicrous.
The movie made them America's favorite family. The paperwork made them his managers.
Was it love that got complicated, or a business that called itself a family?