Boxing legend Tommy Hearns under guardianship amid exploitation claims

Former professional boxer Tommy Hearns has been put under a guardianship and conservatorship after his sons said he was kidnapped by several family members in February, a claim the family members deny. Ronald Hearns and Thomas Hearns Jr. wrote in a petition for guardianship Feb.

18 in Oakland County Probate Court that their father's ex-girlfriend and younger sister "lured" their father out of his friend's house Feb. 10 by saying they were taking him out to dinner, but he never returned home. They later wrote in the same filing that their father was kidnapped by his daughter and her mother.

At the point when the two sons filed the petition, they hadn't had contact with their father, who is now 67, for more than a week, they wrote, and they were seeking guardianship in an attempt to find him. Hearns had been living with his daughter, Natasha Barnes, during the period when Ronald and Thomas Jr. said he was missing.

According to a report from guardian ad litem Michael Dean, who was appointed to evaluate the case, Hearns is now living with Ronald Hearns, his oldest child, in Clinton Township. Dean wrote that due to mental deficiency, Hearns Sr. is unable to manage his property and business affairs effectively.