Career

He is the younger brother of Orange County Choppers former chief fabricator Paul Teutul, Junior., as well as Daniel Teutul who is currently the owner/general manager of Orange County Ironworks Limited Liability Company. Mikey also has a younger sister named Cristin who is a nurse in Rochester, New New York The Teutul family is featured in the Discovery Channel"s reality television series American Chopper and American Chopper: Senior versus Junior. At age 14, Teutul began working at his family"s company, the Orange County Iron Works.

His duties involved answering phones and taking out the trash, though on rare occasions he would help out with bike builds, at one point building his own.

While at OCC, Michael served largely as a comedy relief for the OCC crew. As revealed in Season 6 Episode 13, Mikey has now been squeezed out of the business.

Paul Senior however disputed this on camera and pushed the blame back to Mikey stating that he was given many opportunities to be successful at OCC and he never followed through on any of them. He was a major and popular part of the show and used to appear at promotional events for OCC. Teutul has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O"Brien and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In December 2009, it was revealed on American Chopper that Michael Teutul had checked himself into rehab to overcome an alcohol addiction.

Teutul"s hobbies include painting (he has auctioned some of his work, having recently opened up his "Wolfgang Gallery" in Montgomery, New York), skeet shooting and is currently attempting to market a line of gourmet pasta sauces under the moniker FarQueue Products, Limited Liability Company.