Michael Oher filed a petition Monday in a Tennessee probate court accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago.
Michael Oher, the subject of the hit 2009 movie The Blind Side, filed a petition Monday in a Tennessee probate court accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago. Now, the Tuohy family is speaking out.A prominent Memphis couple with a longstanding relationship to former NFL player Michael Oher want to end a conservatorship that he’s challenging in court, their lawyers said.
WASHINGTON - MAY 01: Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy attend the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair party following the 2010 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the residence of the Frenc, h Ambassador on May 1, 2010 in Washington, DC. The conservatorship paperwork was filed months after Oher turned 18 in May 2004.
Agents negotiated a small advance for the Tuohys from the production company for "The Blind Side," based on a book written by Sean Tuohy’s friend Michael Lewis, the couple said. That included "a tiny percentage of net profits" divided equally among a group that included Oher, they said in their statement.
Martin Singer, an attorney for the Tuohys, said that profit participation checks and studio accounting statements support their assertions. The movie wonWhen Oher refused to cash the checks, the statement said, the Tuohys deposited Oher’s share into a trust account.
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