Since Donald Trump appointed Dr. Mehmet Oz to head the two largest federal health insurance programs, Medicaid and Medicare, their acrimonious family dispute has resurrected.
According to Knewz.com, the TV doctor’s family was torn apart by a contentious succession dispute that involved claims of a falsified will and millions of dollars taken from a Turkish bank account.
In a 2020 lawsuit, his sister Nazlim accused 64-year-old Oz of hiding years’ worth of rental income from a Manhattan apartment.
Nazlim, who resides in Istanbul, said her brother did not give her the $15,000 she is due each month from two condos in the Upper East Side with three bedrooms that belonged to their late father, Mustafa.
In a countersuit to Nazlim’s claims, Oz and his California-based sister Seval charged her with embezzling money from their father’s bank account starting in late 2018 when he was terminally ill in a Turkish hospital.
According to reports, the siblings and their now-deceased widowed mother Suna thought Nazlim had also falsified their father’s signature on his will.
Oz added that the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office was looking into the falsified signature, which was verified by a Turkish handwriting specialist.
He added that Nazlim had not provided any documentation, such as a check, wire transfer log, deposit slip, or bank statement, to back up her allegation that she received $15,000 a month from the rental properties between 2011 and February 2019, when their father passed away and Oz assumed condo management.
“The available evidence strongly suggests (if not proves outright) that Nazlim never received any monthly $15,000 distributions at all,” stated Oz in a sworn affidavit.
“This is also one of many issues deeply intertwined in our family’s ongoing litigation in Turkey, in which it is alleged that Nazlim stole millions of dollars from our father, including rents (from the two Manhattan condos) that had been deposited into our parents’ accounts the very same rents she now claims I have been depriving her of.”
Regarding the family drama, a source earlier stated: “Nazlim is angry, which is why she initiated legal action. She has been receiving the money for a long time, and she depends on it.
In October 2022, just weeks before he lost his Senate candidacy to challenger John Fetterman, Oz and Nazlim were unable to come to a compromise, and the acrimonious case continued for years.
Producers labeled Oz “too toxic” when he tried to restart his TV career after his unsuccessful Senate campaign.
“No one in the mainstream will touch him,” a source disclosed.
“You can’t alienate half of your audience with a political stance and expect to bring in an audience on your return to television.”
He’s groveling to everyone he knows to give him a break and trying to relaunch his health-focused talk program, but he’s not getting very far, according to another source.
“He is unable to communicate with his former producers at all. Being a gregarious person who enjoys listening to his own words, Dr. Oz is starting to realize that he is no longer needed in Hollywood.
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