One thing I'm still confused about: if the parents have literally excommunicated him/functionally (temporarily) disowned him, who's idea was the PR firm, and moreover, who is paying for it?
> So what did your parents think when they’re reading that you’ve got $72 million? > Mohammed Islam: Honestly, my dad wanted to disown me. My mom basically said she’d never talk to me. Their morals are that if I lie about it and don’t own up to it then they can no longer trust me. … They knew it was false and they basically wanted to kill me and I haven’t spoken to them since.
He didn't say they haven't spoken to him; they didn't say they did disown him. I've had my parents angry at me, to the point where they've yelled and said "I could kill you!" - but they're not literally going to murder him, and they're probably not literally disowning him.