Sounds like kind of a fairytale ending, doesn't it? As much as we would love to validate this account, and give ol' handsome Jake/Michael (and his fans) a definitive and happy conclusion, we cannot. Multiple — trust, MULTIPLE — extensive searches for substantiation of these claims turned up nothing verifiable. No fans with selfies of them with Schoeffling in his woodshop, no business name, not even a Yelp review. The trail is, as far as we can follow, cold after he left Hollywood in 1991 following "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken."
According to Too Fab, what we do know is that Schoeffling's daughter, Scarlett (who is either 29 or 30, according to conflicting sources), is a model based in New York City. In 2014, when Too Fab reached out to her agency to request an interview about her career and maybe-just-maybe about her dad, they were told that she and her family were extremely private about their lives and that it probably wouldn't happen. However, Scarlett delighted fans of her dad's in January 2020 by sharing a Throwback Thursday picture of them on her Instagram account when she was just a toddler, and he would have been fairly fresh out of Hollywood. They looked very happy, and we hope they still are!
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