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So just six months ago, he discovered the plot of the Blindside was a lie? Presumably when he met with an attorney to discuss a potential lawsuit? Right...

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The deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency, the petition says. But Oher's agent, who would receive movie contract and payment notices, is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition, the petition alleges. Branan did not return a call to her law office on Monday.

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Think the proof of him voluntarily living in their house and all the pictures like above make this case seem silly.

Also, where was his real family if he was "tricked" some people are just awful

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Honestly, it just makes it more depressing. Dude thought he had a family, and they were secretly bilking money from his name.

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I may be way off base here, but I think someone is pissing in his ear telling him to pursue this. I really don't believe the family had sinister motives when they took him in.

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Wan't he a first round draft pick? He got paid by the NFL, right? And paid well?

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Went 23rd in the first round. Signed a five-year, $13.8 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens.

On March 14, 2014, Oher signed a four-year, $20 million contract with the Titians.

On March 6, 2015, Oher signed a two-year, $7 million contract with the Panthers

Dude waited till 2023, 14 years after the movie came out to file a lawsuit. He's after money, because he spent all his on chains, cars and other crap that amounted to nothing.

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According to Google, he's currently worth 16 mil. So not really.

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According to the article though, he is suing not only to end the conservatorship, but for his "fair share", and for punitive damages.

If all he had asked for was to end the conservatorship and for the family to stop using his name and likeness then I think everybody wouldn't be asking questions.

However, also in the article, it says he only decided to sue after he found out he legally isn't part of the Tuohy family. That indicates to me that he was fine with the Tuohy family accumulating wealth under the conservatorship thinking no he'd recoup a lot of it when they kicked the bucket. When he found out he wasn't going to get that money though, he probably got pissed.
(And that's also assuming the Tuohys were going to cut him out of everything and only give money to their blood).

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Oher wanting some of the money the Tuohys made from the story doesn't mean he's broke. I'm not sure if he's legally entitled to the money, or if the Tuohys actually made any, but if they did why shouldn't he want a cut? They ****ed him over in that regard if that's the case.

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When you sign a conservatorship, you are legally signing away control of the money. Again we don't know a lot here, but legally he isn't entitled to a cent under conservatorship. He seemingly was fine with the arrangement well into adulthood.

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The claim is he wasn't aware of the arrangement until recently.

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Great insight here.

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If this is sarcasm (and if it is, what irony) tell me how you'd like me to respond to a post that got a detail wrong?

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LarryElder said:

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Think the proof of him voluntarily living in their house and all the pictures like above make this case seem silly.

Also, where was his real family if he was "tricked" some people are just awful

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Honestly, it just makes it more depressing. Dude thought he had a family, and they were secretly bilking money from his name.

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They sold their Long John silver franchises for 200 million

Do you think they need the 70-800 maybe a million dollars they made off the movie

He made like 31.2 million of career earnings and most likely lost a lot of it and probably with the aid of some snake lawyer convinced him to trying to find some extra money

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Think the proof of him voluntarily living in their house and all the pictures like above make this case seem silly.

Also, where was his real family if he was "tricked" some people are just awful

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Honestly, it just makes it more depressing. Dude thought he had a family, and they were secretly bilking money from his name.

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It's been well understand for years that they took him in to funnel him to their alma mater knowing he was a great athlete.

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A lot of people on here are on the exact same side as the twitter mob, and I think that is usually the wrong side.
I think waiting for more information to come out is usually wise, but twitter mob doesn't buy into that.

Sean Tuohy did an interview with a local Memphis paper. (Summary of interview is in AL.com). My guess is the kickback from the "White Savior" complex combined with how Oher was portrayed in the movie has led to a lot of this.

In reading the Tuohy interview, I don't believe they made meaningful money off of Oher nor the movie. Nor do I believe the motivation for taking in Oher was selfishly driven to make sure he attended Ole Miss.

Some key points: Tuohys made their money in the fast food business, not on Oher. They were very well off before they took him in, and later Sean Tuohy sold his FF franchises for over $213 million (link from 2022).

The money from the movie was given to them by Michael Lewis, author of the Blind Side, who sold the rights for the movie to be made. It was split equally among Oher and the 4 Tuohy's. Total of about $70K, or about $14K each.


Regarding the conservatorship: It was a way to appease the NCAA during the days leading up to his college football decision. As a supporter of Ole Miss athletics, Tuohy would qualify as a "booster" under NCAA rules.


"Michael was obviously living with us for a long time, and the NCAA didn't like that," Tuohy said. "They said the only way Michael could go to Ole Miss was if he was actually part of the family. I sat Michael down and told him, 'If you're planning to go to Ole Miss or even considering Ole Miss we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that, legally.' We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn't adopt over the age of 18. The only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship. We were so concerned it was on the up-and-up that we made sure the biological mother came to court."


It would be one thing if Tuohy was part of this great recruiting pipeline from Memphis to Ole Miss, but he wasn't.

As a dad, there is no way I would take in a kid who had been moved around to multiple schools, with kids in the house, just to make sure that 1 kid went to my alma mater. I just don't think that was the family's motivation.


Maybe there will be a lot more information come out, but it does seem like a sad ending to a pretty inspirational story.

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Daddy said:

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BassCowboy33 said:

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LarryElder said:

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Think the proof of him voluntarily living in their house and all the pictures like above make this case seem silly.

Also, where was his real family if he was "tricked" some people are just awful

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Honestly, it just makes it more depressing. Dude thought he had a family, and they were secretly bilking money from his name.

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They sold their Long John silver franchises for 200 million

Do you think they need the 70-800 maybe a million dollars they made off the movie

He made like 31.2 million of career earnings and most likely lost a lot of it and probably with the aid of some snake lawyer convinced him to trying to find some extra money

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rgag12 said:

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I may be way off base here, but I think someone is pissing in his ear telling him to pursue this. I really don't believe the family had sinister motives when they took him in.

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Wan't he a first round draft pick? He got paid by the NFL, right? And paid well?

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Went 23rd in the first round. Signed a five-year, $13.8 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens.

On March 14, 2014, Oher signed a four-year, $20 million contract with the Titians.

On March 6, 2015, Oher signed a two-year, $7 million contract with the Panthers

Dude waited till 2023, 14 years after the movie came out to file a lawsuit. He's after money, because he spent all his on chains, cars and other crap that amounted to nothing.

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According to Google, he's currently worth 16 mil. So not really.

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According to the article though, he is suing not only to end the conservatorship, but for his "fair share", and for punitive damages.

If all he had asked for was to end the conservatorship and for the family to stop using his name and likeness then I think everybody wouldn't be asking questions.

However, also in the article, it says he only decided to sue after he found out he legally isn't part of the Tuohy family. That indicates to me that he was fine with the Tuohy family accumulating wealth under the conservatorship thinking no he'd recoup a lot of it when they kicked the bucket. When he found out he wasn't going to get that money though, he probably got pissed.
(And that's also assuming the Tuohys were going to cut him out of everything and only give money to their blood).

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Oher wanting some of the money the Tuohys made from the story doesn't mean he's broke. I'm not sure if he's legally entitled to the money, or if the Tuohys actually made any, but if they did why shouldn't he want a cut? They ****ed him over in that regard if that's the case.

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When you sign a conservatorship, you are legally signing away control of the money. Again we don't know a lot here, but legally he isn't entitled to a cent under conservatorship. He seemingly was fine with the arrangement well into adulthood.

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The claim is he wasn't aware of the arrangement until recently.

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Great insight here.

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If this is sarcasm (and if it is, what irony) tell me how you'd like me to respond to a post that got a detail wrong?

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Apologies. The post I was replying to no longer exists and I guess my reply was attached to yours. Again, my reply to your post was unintended.

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Michael Oher, inspiration for “The Blind Side,” says his story was a big lie; family fires back https://t.co/HQvb18WUMC

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) August 15, 2023

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Mississippi allows for adult adoption now, so when did the law change?

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Mississippis laws don't apply to people in Tennesse, where the Touhys live.

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"As legal conservators, the Tuohys were then able to negotiate a film deal with 20th Century Fox for almost a quarter million dollars up front, and an additional 2.5% of the film's profits. The film made over $300 million. That's at minimum a $7.5 million haul for the couple."

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That's just wrong as in factually inaccurate. There is a vast difference between gross box office and net profit. The theaters take a cut, the markeing and post production costs are figured in as well.

This was a relatively small budget film and not expected to be a blockbuster. In any event, 300 million was not the net profits.

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Michael Oher demanded $15 million, threatened to 'plant a negative story,' Tuohy family attorney claims

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I seem to recall a scene from the movie where LeighAnn is having lunch with her friends and one asks her if they are going to aopt him and she's he's almost 18 so reason to adopt him formally. The could petition to become his legal guardians because his father was dead and the state had terminated his mother's parental rights.

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"As legal conservators, the Tuohys were then able to negotiate a film deal with 20th Century Fox for almost a quarter million dollars up front, and an additional 2.5% of the film's profits. The film made over $300 million. That's at minimum a $7.5 million haul for the couple."

Michael Oher, inspiration for “The Blind Side,” says his story was a big lie; family fires back https://t.co/HQvb18WUMC

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) August 15, 2023

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The conservatorship papers stripped the football star of his legal rights until the age of 25.

"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," the court papers say.

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Tuohy Family Claims Michael Oher Attempted to 'Threaten' Them with Negative Press in $15 Million 'Shakedown'

In a statement issued to PEOPLE, the Tuohy family's attorney Martin Singer said the Tuohy family "opened their home to Mr. Oher, offered him structure, support, and most of all, unconditional love."

Singer's statement continued, claiming, "His response was to threaten them, including saying that he would plant a negative story about them in the press unless they paid him $15 million."

The statement also alleged that "Mr. Oher has actually attempted to run this play several times before," but was "stopped" after the lawyers representing him "saw the evidence and learned the truth."

Singer's statement continued, "Sadly, Mr. Oher has finally found a willing enabler" to file "this ludicrous lawsuit as a cynical attempt to drum up attention in the middle of his latest book tour."

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"When Michael Lewis, a friend of Sean's since childhood, was approached about turning his book on Mr. Oher and the Tuohys into a movie about their family, his agents negotiated a deal where they received a small advance from the production company and a tiny percentage of net profits. They insisted that any money received be divided equally."

Singer's statement claimed that the Tuohy's "have made good on that pledge" to divide the profits equally.

Additionally, the Tuohys' attorney claimed that "evidence" is "clear" and shows that the "Tuohys have given Mr. Oher an equal cut of every penny received from" the film, all of which has apparently been "documented in profit participation checks and studio accounting statements," per Singer's statement.

Singer's statement also claimed that the Tuohys have "always been upfront about" the details of his conservatorship, which was apparently "established to assist with Mr. Oher's needs, ranging from getting him health insurance and obtaining a driver's license to helping with college admissions."

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