Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy are calling Michael Oher’s claims that they enriched themselves at his expense “outlandish,” “hurtful and absurd” and part of a shakedown by the former NFL offensive tackle.
He moved in with the Tuohys just before his senior year of high school and later attended Sean Tuohy’s alma mater, Mississippi. Oher asks for a full accounting of his assets considering his life story produced millions of dollars and he says he received nothing.
The Tuohy family statement says the idea that they sought to profit off Oher is “not only offensive, it is transparently ridiculous.” The statement notes the Tuohys are worth “hundreds of millions of dollars" and the notion they would “connive to withhold a few thousand dollars” defies belief. The statement says agents negotiated a small advance from the production company for the Oscar-nominated movie “The Blind Side,” which was based on the book written by Sean Tuohy's friend Michael Lewis. That included “a tiny percentage of net profits” divided equally with the Tuohys making"good on that pledge.”
When Oher refused to cash what the statement calls “small profit checks" as part of his"shakedown effort," the statement says the Tuohys deposited Oher's share into a trust account set up for his son.
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