Michael Oher has accused Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of placing him under a conservatorship to exploit his story and career.
A Tennessee judge has terminated the conservatorship of Michael Oher, a retired NFL player whose life story was chronicled inShelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes on Friday ended the agreement reached in 2004 when Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy allegedly tricked Oher into signing documents that appointed them as his conservators rather than his adoptive parents.
The case wasn’t dismissed. Oher has moved for the Tuohys to forfeit to him all the money, if any, they were paid for using the rights to his name and story. He seeks a full accounting of all records, which allegedly hasn’t been provided to the court, for breaches of fiduciary duty.the retired NFL player of fabricating the accusations to extort them out of $15 million and “drum up attention in the middle of his latest book tour.
Oher was among the top football prospects in the country when the Tuohys, a family he occasionally stayed with, invited him to live with them full-time as a senior in high school. He was allegedly presented with legal papers shortly after he moved in that he was told he needed to sign to initiate the adoption process.
Under the conservatorship, Oher lost the ability to handle his own financial and legal affairs, which he would’ve kept had he been adopted. His petition alleged he’s been deprived of the rights to his name, image and likeness. He pointed to an alleged deal negotiated by the family signing away to 20th the perpetual and exclusive right to his brand and personal experiences without compensation.
“At no point did the Tuohys inform Michael that they would have ultimate control of all his contracts, and as a result Michael did not understand that if the Conservatorship was granted, he was signing away his right to contract for himself,” stated the filing. “Michael was falsely advised by the Tuohys that because he was over the age of eighteen, that the legal action to adopt Michael would have to be called a ‘conservatorship’ but it was, for all intents and purposes, an adoption.”.
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