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Tuohy Family To Remove Public References Claiming They “Adopted” Michael Oher

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As part of the ongoing legal battle between Michael Oher and the Tuohy family, the Tuohys have told a judge in Tennessee that they will be removing any reference to “adopting” Oher from their public materials. An attorney for the family said that the contentious claim will be removed from the family’s website and their public speaking materials. Earlier this year, it was revealed that the Tuohys had never legally adopted Oher. Instead, they had placed Oher into a conservatorship. Furthermore, they allegedly went as far as to tell Oher that it was essentially the same thing as an adoption.

It’s the first major update in the trial since the Tuohys claimed that Oher, contrary to his claims, had been paid for The Blind Side. Earlier this month, Attorneys for the Tuohy family claim that Michael Oher made $138K in profits from The Blind Side between June 2007 and April 2023. According to documents, these payments ranged from $117 to $31,500. “By agreement between the family members including Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, their children SJ and Collins as well as Michael Oher. The book and movie proceeds were to be split five ways. These funds represent funds paid to Mr. Tuohy and the portion paid over to Mr. Oher,” the family’s attorneys argued. Oher’s team has since disputed this. This week, they stated that at least $2.5M is missing from the financial report submitted by the Tuohys.

Read More: Michael Oher Referenced Conservatorship In 2011 Memoir

The Blind Side Author Blames Oher’s NFL Career For Current Lawsuit

However, Oher’s ongoing lawsuit has been blamed on CTE by the original author of The Blind Side book. Michael Lewis, the man who first brought Oher’s story to the national spotlight, made some bold claims about why Oher had taken the Tuohys to court. “What we’re watching is a change of behaviour. This is what happens to football players who get hit in the head. They run into problems with violence and aggression,” Lewis told Samanth Subramanian of The Guardian. Lewis also made some wild claims about Oher’s ability. “He insisted that Oher wouldn’t have made it to the NFL without the Tuohys’ support. And that Oher did not, in fact, know much about playing football when the Tuohys first met him. On a football field, “he was not useful”, Lewis said,” Subrmanian’s article also noted.

However, Lewis’ claims of CTE and subpar talent are nothing more than a smokescreen. Lewis is a close friend of Sean Tuohy. The two grew up together and had a relationship before Lewis chronicled Oher’s journey in the blindside. The claims of CTE try to distract from the horrific allegations tying a white family to manipulating a Black teenager. Meanwhile, the talent allegations are meaningless. This is given the facts of Oher’s story as well as the fact that Lewis felt the story notable enough to dedicate most of a book to it.

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Michael Oher Paid $138K For “The Blind Side” According To Tuohy Family

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Attorneys for the Tuohy family claim that Michael Oher made $138K in profits from The Blind Side between June 2007 and April 2023. According to documents, these payments ranged from $117 to $31,500. “By agreement between the family members including Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, their children SJ and Collins as well as Michael Oher. The book and movie proceeds were to be split five ways. These funds represent funds paid to Mr. Tuohy and the portion paid over to Mr. Oher,” the family’s attorneys argued this week.

The Tuohy’s conservatorship of Oher being ended earlier this year. However, legal battle over compensation claimed by Oher is ongoing. Oher, who played nearly a decade in the NFL, claims he saw no money from the profits of his life story. This was namely from the Oscar-winning film, The Blind Side. However, the Tuohys have argued that the conservatorship was never used for financial gain. Oher has until November 28 to raise objections to accounting documents filed this week.

Read More: Michael Oher Lawsuit & The Blind Side Controversy, Explained

The Blind Side Author Blames Lawsuit On CTE

It’s been a few months since there was any major news in the case. However, Michael Lewis, the man who first brought Oher’s story to the national spotlight, made some bold claims about why Oher had taken the Tuohys to court. “What we’re watching is a change of behaviour. This is what happens to football players who get hit in the head. They run into problems with violence and aggression,” Lewis told Samanth Subramanian of The Guardian. Lewis also made some wild claims about Oher’s ability. “He insisted that Oher wouldn’t have made it to the NFL without the Tuohys’ support, and that Oher did not, in fact, know much about playing football when the Tuohys first met him. On a football field, “he was not useful”, Lewis said,” Subrmanian’s article also noted.

However, Lewis’ claims of CTE and subpar talent are nothing more than a smokescreen. Lewis is a close friend of Sean Tuohy. The two grew up together and had a relationship before Lewis chronicled Oher’s journey in the blindside. The claims of CTE try to distract from the horrific allegations tying a white family to manipulating a Black teenager. Meanwhile, the talent allegations are meaningless. This is given the facts of Oher’s story as well as the fact that Lewis felt the story notable enough to dedicate most of a book to it.

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Michael Oher Claims “The Blind Side” Falsely Portrayed Him As Having Intellectual Disabilities

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More details continue to emerge about the horrifying situation surrounding Michael Oher. Oher, who played in the NFL was 2009 to 2016, was made famous by his life story. His inspiring story served as the basis for the Oscar-winning film, The Blind Side. Oher, who is Black, was adopted by the white Tuohy family after they met him at an elite Memphis private school attended by their biological children.

However, Oher has claimed this week that he was never legally adopted by the Tuohy family. Instead, he claims he was tricked into entering into a conservatorship. That arrangement gave the Tuohys full financial control over his life and life story. Oher, 37, is seeking an end to the conservatorship as well as financial restitution. The Tuohy family has not denied the arrangement, but calls Oher’s lawsuit “insulting”. Furthermore, the family has alleged that Oher demanded $15 million from them before filing the lawsuit. As more details emerged and the lawsuit is further scrutinized, we are starting to get a better picture of what alerted Oher to the truth.

Read More: The Blind Side controversy and Michael Oher lawsuit explained

Oher Portrayed As Having Intellectual Disabilities

The claims that Oher was wrongfully portrayed as having an intellectual disability stems from his lawyer, J. Gerard Stranch IV. According to Stranch IV, “Oher was depicted [in The Blind Side] as having intellectual disabilities, which isn’t the case in real life. In fact, Oher was academically gifted, which is how he managed to get into the Memphis private school where we would eventually meet the Tuohy children and their parents.”

It’s unclear whether that portrayal extended to other aspects of Oher’s life. However, it likely helped the Tuohys maintain their conservatorship over Oher, which remains in place despite him being 37. It’s just yet another twist to this ever-evolving story that is likely to get very messy if it proceeds through the court system. The Tuohys have stated that they are willing to end their conservatorship of Tuohy but contest his other claims against them.

Read More: Michael Oher claimed conservatorship was pitched as “pretty much an adoption” in 2011 memoir

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Michael Oher Referenced Conservatorship In 2011 Memoir

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More details continue to emerge about the horrifying situation surrounding Michael Oher. Oher, who played in the NFL was 2009 to 2016, was made famous by his life story. His inspiring story served as the basis for the Oscar-winning film, The Blind Side. Oher, who is Black, was adopted by the white Tuohy family after they met him at an elite Memphis private school attended by their biological children.

However, Oher has claimed this week that he was never legally adopted by the Tuohy family. Instead, he claims he was tricked into entering into a conservatorship. That arrangement gave the Tuohys full financial control over his life and life story. Oher, 37, is seeking an end to the conservatorship as well as financial restitution. The Tuohy family has not denied the arrangement, but calls Oher’s lawsuit “insulting”. Furthermore, the family has alleged that Oher demanded $15 million from them before filing the lawsuit.

Read More: The Blind Side controversy explained

Oher Referenced Conservatorship In Memoir

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 09: Michael Oher visits SiriusXM at SiriusXM Studios on August 09, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

However, a major point of contention about Oher’s claims that he only discovered the truth in February of 2023 is a passage from his 2011 memoir. In I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond, Oher directly referenced the conservatorship. “Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my ‘legal conservators. They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as ‘adoptive parents,’ but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account. Honestly, I didn’t care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren’t legally what we already knew was real: We were a family.”

This is being used as some sort of gotcha that Oher was fully aware of the situation he was in. However, let’s break this text down. “Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my ‘legal conservators. They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as ‘adoptive parents,’ but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account.” Oher’s claim is that he was tricked into signing a conservatorship. This is 13-year-old proof of that. There are huge legal differences between adoption and legal conservatorship. Telling an 18-year-old with little legal knowledge that they are “pretty much the exact same thing” is indeed tricking them into signing a document that benefits you and not them. This is a developing story.

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Tuohy Family Claims Michael Oher Demanded $15 Million From Them Before Filing Lawsuit

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The Tuohy family, best known for adopting future NFL star Michael Oher in a heart-warming story that would later become the massively successful biopic The Blind Side are back in the news for all the wrong reasons. Oher, who played nearly a decade in the NFL, has alleged financial abuse on the part of the Tuohys. According to a lawsuit filed by Oher in Tennessee, the family never adopted him. Instead, he claims he was tricked into signing a conservatorship three months after he turned 18. The lawsuit further alleges that Oher has never seen any of the profits from the work that his life story became. This is due to the conservatorship granting the Tuohy family full financial control of him.

Additionally, Oher claims that the Tuohys used fictionalized reports of intellectual disability on Oher’s part to justify their conservatorship. This is despite first meeting Oher while he was attending an elite Memphis private school. Oher is seeking an end to the conservatorship. He alleges that the agreement was pitched to him as being “basically the same as an adoption.” Furthermore, he is seeking well as financial restitution and an injunction to stop the Tuohy family profiting from his name and likeness. The Tuohy family have since made some bombshell claims of their own in retaliation.

Read More: Sean Tuohy calls Michael Oher lawsuit “insulting”

Tuohys Claim “Shakedown” On The Part Of Oher

In a statement issued by family attorney Martin Singer, the Tuohys have claimed that the lawsuit comes after a “shakedown” on the part of Oher. “In reality, the Tuohys opened their home to Mr. Oher, offered him structure, support and, most of all, unconditional love,” Singer’s statement said. “They have consistently treated him like a son and one of their three children. 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.”

“They insisted that any money received be divided equally. And they have made good on that pledge,” the statement continued. “The evidence — documented in profit participation checks and studio accounting statements — is clear: over the years. The Tuohys have given Mr. Oher an equal cut of every penny received from The Blind Side. Even recently, when Mr. Oher started to threaten them about what he would do unless they paid him an eight-figure windfall, and, as part of that shakedown effort refused to cash the small profit checks from the Tuohys, they still deposited Mr. Oher’s equal share into a trust account they set up for his son.” It is worth noting that if Oher’s claims are true, the conservatorship would prevent him from freely accessing that account. This is a developing story.

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Michael Oher Claims Tuohy Family Never Adopted Him

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If you know anything about Michael Oher, it’s probably that he was a very solid offensive lineman in the NFL. However, he was also famous for the movie The Blindside. This movie starred Sandra Bullock and was a dramatization of his life. In the movie, it was explained that he was adopted by the Tuohys, a well-off family who took him in when he was homeless. Although the movie was criticized for its white savior complex, many felt like his story in general was an uplifting one, regardless.

Those perceptions will certainly be changing very soon given some new information that has been presented by Oher himself. According to ESPN, Oher is filing a petition against the Tuohys, where he is looking to get his proper payment for The Blindside. In fact, in this filing, he reveals the family allegedly never adopted him. Instead, they tricked him into signing a document that made them his co-conservators. Subsequently, they were able to enrich themselves using his name.

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Michael Oher Wants His Fair Share

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FOXBORO, MA – JANUARY 22: Michael Oher #74 of the Baltimore Ravens warms up prior to their AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on January 22, 2012 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)

“The lie of Michael’s adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher,” the new filing reads. “Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.”

Oher and his lawyer are simply looking to recoup the funds the football star lost out on. The Tuohys reportedly got $900K up front for The Blindside. Meanwhile, Oher was left with pretty well nothing. It is a truly shocking story, and a cautionary tale. Hopefully, he gets the money he ultimately deserves. Let us know your thoughts on this, in the comments section below. Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for more news from around the sports world.

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