What surprises this attorney about 'Blind Side' court case
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2023
- CNN's Brynn Gingras breaks down former NFL player Michael Oher's allegations against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, who Oher says claimed for years adopted him and instead locked him in a conservatorship. CNN's Jake Tapper discusses with estate and probate attorney Lisa MacCarley. #CNN #News
The whole conservatorship thing in America is a joke (Britney comes to mind)
She's still under conservatorship, just a different conservator. Not her father.
Leave BRITNEY ALONE, sorry just bring back the glory days of this platform before it went to sht (thanks snowflakes)
Yeah, it's not she isn't batshit crazy. Give me a break. Britney needs conservativeship because she isn't mentally acute enough not to do something crazy.
But Britney needed hers she's crazy. And an alcoholic, she's going to end up killing herself. And people try to defend her and even slander her kids, but Britneys drinking and carelessness had Preston hospitalized twice when she dropped him as a child smh.
@@TheBasher-_-that was over 20 years ago when she was a young 20 something year old. She’s literally 40 something. Get over urself. She was a young pop star in Hollywood partying. She’s a grown ass woman who been working since a kid to take care of her whole family she earned all her dms money and should spend it how she likes.
*WHY* was he in a conservatorship in the first place? 😳
Okay, maybe an 18 year old could benefit from having a conservator, but once he was out of college and earning a NFL salary it should have ended.
He 'discovered' in February... 3 months after marrying the mother of his children
@@geehum Since I've heard about this, I've wondered if any so called reporter has asked the couple directly about the adoption, did they or didn't they adopt him. If they did legally adopt the young man wouldn't he have appeared in court with this couple?
@@geehumso you did not listen to the story at all
@@pandabear1341he couldn’t legally be adopted because he was 18 years old so he had to sign a conservatirship to be eligible to play for Ole Miss. this will all turn out to be another hoax.
They allowed him to be portrayed as a simpleton. What kind of parent does that for money?
Maybe that’s how they saw him as well.
Technically they were not his parents since they never adopted him.
Politicians do the same. Pretty sure you are one of the "simpletons."
HE WAS a simpleton. Did you see the movie?
@@TheUMIAwhat make you look like a simpleton as you do sound like one making something political when it doesn't need to be like a simpleton
Telling a kid he's under guardianship is a lot different from conservativship. I was in a foster before and I've never heard the word "conservativship" until the Brittany Spears case. It's the play on words that Michael probably didn't catch at the time.
Good point. There's more to come on this story.
Michael said in his 2011 memoir that he knew he was in a conservatorship.
@@DayVision-fr4zl Here's what he wrote in his memoir: “My mother was going to be at the hearing to agree that she supported the decision to have the Tuohys listed as my next of kin and legal conservators,” he wrote. “My mother was supportive of the whole thing and there wasn’t a whole lot of emotion all around because it was just a matter of formalizing the way we’d been living for the past year.”
“After court, we all went out to brunch together to celebrate. Then we dropped my mother off and went back to the house-to our house.”
His mom, lawyer, and the contract were all present for him to glean information from. Whether he chose to apply himself and get it is his problem in my opinion. As they say in legal circles "ignorance of the law is no excuse."
Michael would have had a guardian ad litem since he was still in school and his mom was giving up parental rights. It’s free through the courts and automatically assigned. Not to mention there are plenty of free lawyers and lawyers who will agree to be paid later. There was a judge too that had to talk to everyone and make sure everyone knew what was happening. Especially since Michael was old enough to understand why they were in court. I guarantee you that he had a lawyer when he signed his pro football contract. If he was under a conservatorship and didn’t know it then his lawyer would have had to bring the Toughys in to discuss the contracts. I imagine that he had an attorney when he signed to play football for Ole Miss since the players usually get perks for playing. The Toughys were rich and very well off before they took in Michael. They didn’t know that he would go on to play for ole miss and that years later the family would have a movie about them made. The agency probably got half the money and the rest split between the 5.
@@DayVision-fr4zl I read that the Toughys just sold some or all of their businesses earlier in the year and got over $200 million for it and because of his distancing himself from them when he got engaged, they decided not to give him anything or at least not close to what they gave their biological children. I’m betting he went to them with his hand out wanting “his share” and they said no. He blew all his football money and wifey doesn’t want to work so she put the idea to sue in his mind. In the past Ole Miss has gotten into trouble for not doing things by the books and giving out incentives that were inappropriate and they had to be monitored very closely by several different agencies for several years. MSU and Southern also got dinged so they make sure there’s nothing they could get hit for again until a certain amount of years pass and they get too comfortable. I think it was around the time that Oher was in college or right before. That’s one reason why I think he’s filing a frivolous lawsuit. He’s hoping they’ll settle out of court. They might have if he hadn’t leaked it to the media. If he had done it quietly and privately then he would have gotten what he wanted. He screwed himself though. He’s now going to be considered to be just like Kapernick or whatever his name is and Jussie. You’ll know it’s bad when Chapelle starts making fun of him.
Sounds like robbery
Not really, if he didn't know till February, they had very little involvement with his contract as a career football player. It seems they went with the conservatorship for legal purpose which would allow him to be under their insurance policy and help him get into college as the lawyers said. I think they did it with good intentions, and I don't think they were concern about the money from the movie, but more for their story to be out.
Way too many assumptions in your comment. If they used the same attorney as his representative, he wouldn't know the difference. He's also claiming they had him sign away _all rights to his likenesses and image,_ at age EIGHTEEN.
@@ayonibrahim9985of course you don’t. We already know the reason why
@@ayonibrahim9985, you wrote all that means you know shit about conservatorship! Just own the fact you don't know shit!!!!
Michael was the one blind sided
Exactly-I thought the exact same thing.
Wait until all the facts come out
i bet Tuohys family wish they never took Michael in, so Michael could stay homeless and never "got taken advantage of". what an ungrateful lil Bitc$$😮💨
The dad: we didn’t receive any money
The son: I received 60 grand ?
Something ain’t right! What’s so weird here is Ohers is 18 when this goes down. He’s an adult legally. All the Tuohys had to do was just give him good advice if there really cared but let him make his own decisions. The movie portrayed him as big dumb gentle giant sound like the family tried to run with that narrative.
They are worth over 20 million. Oher is shaking them down.
@@williamgullett5911 That's more than his worth. So they ought to share with him!
@@Robin-xt7yo they might have but not now
He likely truly was a Big Dumb Gentle Giant which is EXACTLY why they got away with this for so long.
He’s older now and he has become a bit wiser and realized that things didn’t make sense. Most poverty stricken Black people, especially 18 year old kids (either still in high school or fresh out) aren’t educated enough to understand any legal matters, period!
@@1Goddess76 Why don’t you wait until the guilty verdict before you start convicting people.
So he was blindsided, I’d like to see part 2😂
This is the making of the sequel.
😮😂😂😂
Blindsided ,PART 2 THE SHANKING 😂😅
Is it really a “shakedown” if you are trying to get the money you are owed?!
The family got 250000 for blindside even the bio kids got 250000 each is was proven in the court documents he didn't get any money for the movie
@@elizabeth_820 that’s what I’m agreeing to. For the father, Mr. Tuohy, to use the word “shakedown” is horrible. Michael Oher would be asking for what’s he’s owed from his own life story!
@@FancyPlants110they were also involved. And he would have never made it to the NFL without them.
he didn't realize for 20 years a movie about him and he wasn't getting royalties? he wasn't blindsided
@@Aus200 Why do you believe Hollywood so easily. Oher didn't need them in order to get to the NFL!
Could someone please ask why in the movie itself, they claimed they were adopting him? If they weren't being shady, the movie would have been truthful about the conservatorship. But yet, they portrayed an adoption.
He knew what he was signing. It was done for the eligibility of drafting to the NCAA
Trust me, young 18 year old kids from poverty don’t know the different between an adoption proceeding and a conservatorship. Those are just words to a kid, when what he relied on was what his supposed family told him.
Why did the movie claim something? They do it all the time.
Do you believe Hollywood only writes 100% factual stories?? jfc 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@zacharyduncan6118You are absolutely correct!!!!
Fact: Orphans don't need conservators to enter college
Especially someone who is being recruited!
I’d like Courts to go through families accounts. If they did nothing wrong (Conservatorship is suspect) they should be able to show what they earned & what they paid out.
I'm sure they'll provide the receipts.
Oher can petition the court to end the conservatorship anytime he wants. I don't believe he didn't know about the conservatorship. He received reports. They became his guards and the mother signed the papers.
@@landotter What makes you so sure they will provide the necessary documentation, are you acquainted with these individuals?
They already hiding money
Why would their children be entitled to any of his money? Those are not his relatives if they didn’t adopt him there’s no relationship really
So, Ohr gave the people who manipulated him the chance to make things right out of the public eye and they refused??? They deserve to be publicly outed for this treachery.
And instead, tried to frame it as a “shake down”
@@ItsAllAnillusion They're still claiming it was about welcoming him into their family, yet cut ONLY him out of the windfall made off his name and story.
Michael Oher is a multi millionaire, college graduate, and former pro football player because of his adoptive family (legal binding or not)…his birth mom was a black crack whore who kicked him out of the house…who treated him better? The family was already very wealthy, what do they have to gain by all of this? You people are morons for believing it. This reeks of anti-white-ism and black racism
They're acting like he owes them for being his saviors or something.
My own question is that he isn't 18 years old anymore, he is 37, when did they think was the appropriate age or time for them to end the conservatorship?
Money corrupts, we wouldn't be having cases like his or Britney Spears If parents/ guardians respected transition of their little boys and girls into fully grown independent adults.
37 with 4 kids with the wife he married last year. Those 2 have some blame as well
You really should not bring up Britney Spears. Compared to Michaels situation. Britney has mental problems. That’s why she was put into a conservatorship. She has since got that removed. I do not think the Tuohys were signing Michaels nfl and endorsement contracts. The conservatorship for him after collage. Just was not taken off the books. It seems like Oher did not like the book or movie. He did not want the money. At the time. So they put it in a trust fund. I do not know if the trust fund is still sitting out there. With money in it. Or the reporting on the trust fund was not accurate.
@@plem7210 Britney's mental problem was created by those who run her life. Compared to Christian Aguilera who is that same girl since Disney, Britney isen't. Her managements decision and effort to make her above her pears in her prime days came at a heavy cost.
Your right though about not comparing him to Britney coz she was played dirty by the industry and her own family gladly participated. The situation of the NFL player seems like simply a misunderstanding to an extent.
@plem7210 You do realize that deal was signed when Michael was a sophomore in college. Back then NCAA rules maybhave made him ineligible had he accepted the money or signed any such contracts?
@@marciethompson3846 The producers of the movie said he was paid. So it is not just the family saying that. The movie came out in 2009. The same year he was drafted. Some Movie Actors have said they do not normally get paid till the movie comes out. So they maybe did not pay anybody till 2009. So no collage rules broken.
Looks like Mr. Singer the attorney is a busy man. Good luck Michael you have every right to get all the information forensically to answer any concerns or questions you have. Peace to the World.
Britney has a thing to say about a " conservatorship "
Get an independent oversight to clear the BS away
Nothing is more painful than a close family member who warmly embraces you, looks you in the eyes and smiles, then slowly twists the knife, as they stab you from behind.
Too bad that's not what happened. This is nothing but a whiny prick who would have been in prison instead.
The guy is broke, wasted all his football money, and is trying to get a payday. He reportedly had been trying to for a while.
So you believe everything this guy said uncritically?? He didn't just out of the blue start looking for money, he's broke bcuz he wasn't smart enough to manage the money he made & pissed it away
@@williamgullett5911as he should. It’s his story.
@@freejdc1 We don’t own our stories done by Hollywood
He was 18. His parents don’t know the business. Why is the lawyer surprised. If she was representing him her first argument would be that he was 18 and didn’t know what he was signing. Doesn’t make sense why they need conservatorship for him to go to school.
It came out that the lawyer that represented him back then was a friend of theirs. She didn't have his best interest at heart.
It doesn't make sense. Why did they have CAA as agents for them and their bio kids, but then Michael's contact was the lawyer who drafted the conservatorship? I smell crime.
@@MelloHubbshe was his lawyer while in the league too! They truly finessed him… he basically was their slave working to pay them 🥹
A man in his 30s would definitely look back at that situation with resentment. The whole story is completely out of touch and purposefully depicts him as less intelligent and spotlights and glorifies Leeann. I would be angry too.
Even if Mr. Oher heard the word conservatorship being used at some point in time when he was 18 doesn't mean he would have known what it meant to any extent. Britney Spears made the word poplar for those who didn't know the meaning of it! Plus, conservatorship doesn't mean keeping the money from the earner for your own gains! Also, the movie portrayed Mr. Oher as not the smartest fellow! Again, why would Mr. Oher know the meaning of conservatorship at 18! Remember, what's done in the dark will always come to light!
They're gonna love him. So pay him what they owe him.
They owe him nothing. He is an ungrateful ingrate. He tried to blackmail them. These people were worth millions before they took him in.
It’s not a shakedown if it’s my money. I’m just following up and circling back.
I love the "The film made 330 million dollars" translates to "nobody make any money off it" ...I mean I know film industry is gonna take a large chunk, but ...all of it? Nobody made ANY money? At all? I find that hard to believe.
Even in the interview, the kid says "we didn't make any money, ok we made a small amount, 60k" then quietly slips in "over the past few years". His lying ass is talking about the royalties he has made over the past few years, he isn't counting the huge initial chunk the movie made when it was released, only the small amount it has made recently.
Yeah, the lawyer who drafted the conservatorship was close to the family. This reeks! 339 million and he wasn't paid anything, but the conservators didn't? The family had CAA as their management and michael wasnt guven any representation despite him being under their conservatorship?? Ok, right. A forensic accounting in discovery will clear this up but I'm guessing they will fight it, just like Brittney spears dad and management did.
@@alansteelexactly. What about the first few years??
@@alansteelyou don't know if he's lying. Just sounds like you're making up racist assumptions.
@LiberalTruth2023 they didn't alter his trajectory. He was a top 5 prospect in the country BEFORE he even met the family. Top lineback in the state, all American, multiple division 1 offers on the table etc. His future was in the NFL long before he met them.
You should listen to the interviews his coach, teachers and team mates gave right after the movie was released about how false it actually was.
he must be broke to do this.....what a sad excuse of a man
@marylyn3081 and for 20 years he didn't know this? 20 years he didn't realize he was paid no royalities..he got no money...he signed no papers or contracts? you really belive this?
Leave it to CNN to be on the wrong side of a story.
It's HIS story and HIS movie. How gross and completely disgusting that they did this to him.
Blame the author of the book for taking profits over the Tuohy’s. It’s not like they had a guarantee that he was going to make the NFL and become something when they took him in.
Brett Favre graduated from Ole Miss too. I guess you can get degrees in fraud and how to cheat the poor from Ole Miss. Did Trump go there? lol
And this is why I will never help a knicker
@@thehatefull1761The biggest difference between you and a black person is merely how much melanin is in your skin. It's only skin deep.
The hate you have is unjustified and immoral. And you'd probably call yourself a Christian. Well, Jesus himself wasn't a white man-no one natively from that area of the world is.
The movie wasn't "HIS MOVIE"... the Tuohy taking him in and providing for him was JUST AS MUCH a part of the story! Without the Tuohy's... there would have been no movie!
When insane the Blind Side movie I was in literal shock at the people who clapped. I was embarrassed to be there. They made him look like an animal.
That's Hollywood, not the parents.
@@jackwhite6629 parents were even worse.
who cares
He had a learning disability that’s it.
@@karinaz8756no he didn’t
Why would his parents need to be there when he was 18?
As an 17 year old I was on my own essentially.
How is an 18 year old not able to be independent without someone outside whether in the past or his present without some evil orchestration in the past or background in text.
Now they the theieve are trying to say he tried to "shake them down" before he went public. He did not know what he was doing at the age of 18.
Definitely! 17-18 year old people are adults by law, but the number itself say TEEN. He was a child, a teenager and he absolutely didn’t understand anything that was happening to him.
They behaved like parents while they were just like football agents. It is normal to love and treat your young player because In return you benefit! They saw a potential with problem and acted like they care because no one had never care for him before.
He had family that cared about him. They had issues but they cared.
How fitting that the family would treat any conversation about remuneration as a shakedown.
How fitting that a guy who wasted all his football money is needing money.
They are worth multi millions on their own. They don’t have to steal from him
@@williamgullett5911 Only When you substantiate that he has wasted all his money can any sensible person entertain your comment in any serious way. Even if that is true is he not entitled to an accounting from the Tuohys?
@@7alfresco Yes and if they stole from him they should pay. My opinion is it’s shady. Half of retired football players go broke within their first 3 years after retiring. And even if he isn’t broke he could still be going after them for a different reason.
@@7alfrescoall signs point to Oher being an ungrateful liar. He is contradicting his own 2011 memoir and the author of the book that the movie was based on is also contradicting Oher’s claims. My question is why are people taking Oher at face value?
@@paulieprinceton4550 Your thinking seems like very emotional logic that you decry from others who may be similarly applying to support Oher. I am simply saying that any kind of interaction on the topic of accounting is likely to be portrayed by the family as a shakedown.
He just found out in February OMG
Sean Tuohy jr "I only made 60k to 70k in the LAST 4 or 5 years. The Blind Side came out in 2009. The royalties to films and network tv can add up. How much did he make prior to the 4 or 5 years.
Was thinking the same ... Curious of the facts when they come out 🤔
2.5% of the net revenue of the movie
If it were about health insurance, he's 18 a qualified for Medicaid since he was a full time student. They wanted control of his finances.
Wrong, he wouldn't qualify for all the Pell Grants & loans he received in college if they'd formally adopted him. You think he's randomly looking for money 20yrs later?? _He's broke_ & trying to get money out of anyone he can bcuz he wasn't smart enough to manage the money he made in the nfl
If Michael was taken advantage of then shame on them. But if he is squeezing the people who accepted him into their lives, provided a loving home for him when his biological parents couldn't be bothered, and are now being slandered because he burned through his NFL millions, well, lets just say that you can't get much lower than that. I'm not suggesting that Michael is wrong. However there are a lot of fishy aspects to this story. He just a book released this past Friday. The timing for his lawsuit seems questionable. Regardless, this seems like it shouldn't be too difficult to sort out.
I hope Micheal gets his rightful share.
And if his share is zero what then?
According to reports, oher was already attending the private school and scouts were already looking at him before he even met the touyes
Fun fact: The author of the book, The Blind Side, which the movie is based off of went to high school with Sean Tuoey!
It think Michael is more devasted that they benefitted and elevated in life from his likeness but he was never good enough for adoption. I hate that he didn't have someone to advocate for him properly. I heard the story was fabricated many years ago.
Oher seems like a degenerate liar.
True kindness don’t have a price!
Yea okay how it’s kindness
@@youngduffle25exactly!
i read that the reason they didnt formerly "adopt" him was bc of the college application, getting loans, scholarships & grants.
He wouldve lost all of that if he was under their address, but he was informerly adopted, living with them for years, the parts of him getting closae with the kids is all true (i believe)
They then decided on a conservatorship, a lawyers advice, with Oher & them involved in everything, and that they all didnt get shit from the movie, but made a few mill each from the book sales.
I saw pictures from his wedding and was very happy to see him doing well & so happy in love - but I noticed that none of his "adopted" family were in attendance. This made me look further into everything, and i couldnt believe it - that whole movie scripted tale is nothing but bs, i shouldve known better. Total bs.
What hurt the most was that they portayed him as some big dumb oaf charity case, and that him & the kids were like "brothers & sister."
i hope the truth comes out about everything, and that no one ever falls for this kind of sh!t ever again - its immoral & not fair, to us, but mainly to him & his real family.
He was NOT adopted! What part of that don't you understand?
Why would he feel bad of not being adopted? He was helped. Besides, the family is worth $200 million,. adoption will make him inherit.
@@kitchg5526I thnk you unknowlingly hit the nail on the head....inheritance. thats not how you treat your child, adopted or not. They're either your child or they are not, you cannot have it both ways.
The absurdity of movies and crafted narratives whose purpose is to make us feel good. If they, the family, were wealthy why the need for a conservatorship? Looking back it was just a feel-good narrative devoid of all the deep emotional issues related to that kind of venture. Who needs to hear the full truth, we go to movies to be entertained and we craft our personal narratives for ease of consumption if not for others but for ourselves.
That's very telling, that that family wasn't at his wedding.
They sound despicable. We will find out.
They sound despicable and Michael Oher appears to actually be despicable.
This is heartbreaking 💔 This will make many people look at the movie so much different.
What a shame. How could they do this to such a talent and great kid.
Hollywood😎
They made him look literate and stupid; he was an All-American football player in High School so he would have made it to college anyway. The parents seems like Boosters and that’s why they were investigated by the NCAA. The fact that the movie showed that they were teaching him how to play football is ridiculous! The fact that they did this book and movie while he was in college says a lot of what their motives were. As a college athlete, he could not profit off his image or likeness so with the Conservatorship the family could. The is 37 years old so why is the Conservatorship still active? This means that his wife or kids could not make decisions for himself in the case he was sick…SMFH!
Fuck that bullshit white Savior movie.
"This will make many people look at the movie so much different", only if you've been naive or stupid.
Don't believe everything you see. Qanon is a perfect example
Must have run out of money. He was in and out of foster care, a drug addict mom and they helped him. They didn’t need money. Helped him with a education and helped him succeed, how ungrateful!
He was recruited and scholarship. They made money, he didn't. He thought he was adopted. He wasn't. They maintained the adoption narrative until this year. They basically make money when they saw his potential worth which was apparent before they took him in.
They were boosters looking to scout for Ole Miss
@@holdenmuganda97 they both went to school there. Why wouldn't you want to support your team?
Beware of abuse and controlling disguised as help
@@carolynbrace8821 Yeah, you never know who's trying to send you to college.
You don’t sue people you love.
This is why you don't help people.
I have a different opinion on Oher now. He is not the person that I thought he was. I am disappointed in Oher.
They love him the same as when he was a kid. So much they are accusing him of a shakedown. For money made from his life story. That they partially fabricated.
“It kind of felt like a formality, as I'd been a part of the family for more than a year at that point. Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, 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.” Quote from Michael's 2011 book
Good point, but it's not a formality at all. It's a legal document.
Backs up his account that he didn't really understand what a conservatorship was, and was tricked into it.
It's like someone telling you an old junkpile and a new car are the same thing. One is a death trap, the other is reliable transportation.
Ahhhh ok!😐
If they claimed he didn't know how to read or write, then how would he understand what he was signing at 18??
Wow! Interesting!!!
I don't think they said that, it was something added by the movie producers to make it a more interesting story. Hollywood being Hollywood.
Oh give me a break. Blame the 18 year old!!! She is awful. Why did they interview her.
He's an adult. His signature is as valid as a 50 year old's. She just didn't say what you wanted her to say.
They should make another film to this sequel: The Blind Side 2
Oh yes!! Good point
@@jaylacy9912YEAH BLINDSIDE 2,THE SHANKING😂😅
What folks don't understand is that the movie deal was between the author and the studio NOT the Touhys and the studio!
She wrote the story. Do you really believe someone else did?
@@marylyn3081no Michael Lewis wrote the book and the Toughy’s and Michael split $500k five ways. Write make no money in Hollywood, only produces and lawyers.
The facts will come out in the financial documents. Bottom line...the receipts. It sounds fishy. But he should have the facts.
That’s if they haven’t started destroying any documents!
As a reading tutor....I heard all I needed to hear. People really dont understand literacy and comprehension... He just said He couldn't read or write. He was vulnerable!!! The Tuohy family is complicit and dead wrong!!!!! He heard the word conservatorship but did He understand...how do we know it was accurately explained.....the Tuohy family had the power and upper hand in this entire situation...an ancient proverb says Shun the very appearance of evil ....they failed to ensure everything was Kosher
Can you even adopt someone 18 or older? Isn’t that why they did a conservatorship?
Yes you can adopt an 18 year old. It's actually pretty common for kids who want to be adopted by certain parents, like step parents or foster parents, to be adopted once the kid is an adult able to make their own decisions.
Whatever happened here it'll come out one way or another.
Yea, they did it! They only wanted the money 💰. Not the actually person.
They had hundreds of millions of dollars to begin with..
I read all of the facts on this case. Super shady and seems they f’d him over.
Exactly, wait until the facts come out.
Nah, seems like Oher is a scumbag.
All the facts? Alrighty. Good enough for me.
Retired NFL star Michael Oher, whose supposed adoption out of grinding poverty by a wealthy, white family was immortalized in the 2009 movie "The Blind Side," petitioned a Tennessee court Monday with allegations that a central element of the story was a lie concocted by the family to enrich itself at his expense.
The 14-page petition, filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, who took Oher into their home as a high school student, never adopted him. Instead, less than three months after Oher turned 18 in 2004, the petition says, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
The petition further alleges that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties from an Oscar-winning film that earned more than $300 million, while Oher got nothing for a story "that would not have existed without him." In the years since, the Tuohys have continued calling the 37-year-old Oher their adopted son and have used that assertion to promote their foundation as well as Leigh Anne Tuohy's work as an author and motivational speaker.
Michael Oher, the former NFL tackle whose life inspired the Oscar-nominated film “The Blind Side,” sensationally filed a lawsuit against the family who took him in at age 18, alleging they duped him out of millions of dollars made from his life story and saying he wants to end their conservatorship over him.
Oher, 37, claims Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into making them his conservators, rather than his adoptive parents, nearly two decades ago.
The former Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl winner is seeking to have the conservatorship terminated and asking for a full accounting of the money earned off the use of his name, including the film that made over $300 million at the box office and the novel that inspired it.
The allegations put a new spin on the beloved football movie, starring Sandra Bullock, which painted the Tuohys as a generous and loving family who adopted Oher and helped him thrive at the University of Mississippi.
The Tuohys have since denied they kept the conservatorship a secret from Oher, said they are “devastated” by allegations that they profited handsomely from his story, and have even claimed through their lawyer that he had demanded a $15 million payment from them and threatened to go public, according to TMZ.
Setting up a conservatorship says it all.
Michael Lewis - who wrote The Blindside - is a childhood friend of Sean Tuohy. Lewis also wrote the books Moneyball and The Big Short, both of which were optioned into highly successful movies. It is SO disappointing that Lewis was involved (of course he was). The Tuohy's 'love' and 'care' apparently came at a price: ownership of his story - which had nothing to do with his university matriculation.
The scary thing is the NFL must have known on some level. Hope he gets his name back.
😂 the simple fact that he just now at 37 realised he signed conservatorship documents should be a pointer as to why the Touhy's went that route...
The term Shake him down being used speaks so loudly😮
The math ain’t mathin already . His parents stated that all parties made $14,000 including Micheal. Now the son is saying $60 , 70 grand .
Why everyone surprised that this “conservatorship ” is still in effect because At the time he was told hey we can’t adopt you because of age or whatever but this Conservatorship is the same thing as adoption so he was going on the idea that he was officially adopted so why would that legal filing would be ever revisited if you think it was an adoption because that is usually a one time filing the end. Makes me believe his version more than the Touhy family’s version
The Tuohy’s sold their business for $200m. Why would they need his money?
They didn't. They wanted it and it's called greed. You sound ignorant on purpose. 😏
It’s called greed. You think the rich don’t want to be richer?
@@Mr.93.20c'mon, think a little bit.
@@ForeverYoung-fc3eo What do you mean? I told it like it is.
@@Mr.93.20If Oher didn’t understand what the judge told him in court, then he’s truly as dumb as he complains he was portrayed in the movie.
So they did a movie about the family life but never made a dime⁉️
The most confusing thing is Oher himself talks about the conservatorship in his book in 2011, I don’t buy he’s just finding out
Hope they work it out
Wow!
He really got Blind sided by his greedy adopted mom and dad.
Oher is shaking them down.
How would his parents give consent WHEN HE WAS 18. This lady is completely wrong.
The Touhy's (conservator) just need to produce the yearly financial filings they are legally mandated to give the court but didn't to clear all this up.
The youngest Tuohy kid saying with a shrug, "I made 60, 70 grand" gives me the ick.
So is he broke now and looking to make up for his own money mismanagement? Why wait so long? This makes no sense!
They never removed the conservatorship because then he would immediately know he was not adopted. They are only devastated because they got caught.
They never dissolved the conservatorship because they ONLY used it to satisfy the NCAA and the insurance companies.... as this attorney has just proven. If they never took the oath and got the "letters of conservatorship", they can NEVER prove they are his conservators and sign a contract in his name. After he graduated Ole Miss and was done with the NCAA scholarship, it sat there unused and forgotten for 15 years.
That movie always gave me the creeps; for far too long, many people--who regularly express their disinterest in the history and interests of underrepresented communities--rush to gobble up movies and television written with what is commonly referred to as a "white savior narrative" trope...The Help, Dangerous Minds, The Last Samurai, Dances With Wolves, 42, Different Strokes, etc. to name just a few of a long list of examples.
Truth!!!!!
You’re going to make a terrific dad. My father wouldn’t allow Diff’rent (look how they spelled it?) 😂 Strokes in our house growing up. You just took me back. Yeah, let’s not educate you properly or give the history as it happened, but let’s make people cry because we’re such wonderful people helping you poor things (in the movies). And people in those movies are definitely getting Oscars and the most exposure. Get the eff outta here.
That's why I never watched this movie. It's an old movie & TV trope that goes back throughout the history of film that needs to die. I love Sandra Bullock, but damn this movie always looked cringe. And it turns out all this time it was based on BS.
YESSS!!! I felt that way when I saw the movie. Some folks end up looking worse (so self righteous) by trying too hard in showing their “humility and acceptance”. 😂😂😂 Phony Shite.
@sirrebral yep the white savior gets blindsided 😂😂😂
Why not adopt him?!!!!! Instead of conservatorship?!!!!!
Why is Michael surprised that he was treated like a caged animal ?
1) so was he adopted?
2) y conservatorship-they can adopted him n help him w/o this complication
3) y has the conservatorship ended?
4) who got the $
These are things that easily check out. Follow the $!
Never adopted and this filing is the first step to get out of the conservaship.
This was really bad reporting.
This is the most Get Out sh*t ever. I’m going to need Jordan Peele to write the sequel Blindsided and make sure Michael Oher gets every damn penny.
Oher needs it, he wasted all his football money.
This type of reporting gives me a heart burn. The idea that making a young man's life story into a blockbuster high grossing movie for which NOBODY including him got any payment is gaslighting at its worst.
HI didn't get paid but THEY got paid for HIS life story.
No the Tuohys did Not get a bunch of money from the film. The people who made money were the studio, actors and actresses. BTW, he just got married
@@micheleh5269 In reporting that I have seen indicated that they got at least $330 thousand and a percentage of the gross.
Then you also know they split what they got.
@@micheleh5269 When you don't make a dime on something and split that "not a dime" you are splitting nothing into 2 parts. If you can show how to do that your solution is also a way to generate limitless energy from nothing.
"This type of reporting", What type is it, and what type do you prefer?
Ok so who ever did the movie ask them who they write checks to, simple to find out..
Michael Oher didn't write the book, he didn't write the screenplay, and he didn't act in the film. Why would he have any ownership in the film? The family was interviewed for their story by michael lewis and he gave them a percentage of the money he received for the movie rights to his book. It was a relatively small amount of money because nobody knew the movie would become that big a hit. Lets face it, the movie was a big hit because of Sandra Bullock's portrayal of the mother and the fact that the mother was a real character.
Might wanna do a little more research on this, the Tuohy family likes to say they didnt make $ off the movie but the fact is they got $75k up front when the book was optioned and 2.5% of the net revenue of the film which js not a public fugure but probably around &5 million.
They got $500,000 from the movie, split 5 ways.@@zyguit
@@zyguit Reputable source?
@@nightsonnyjim NBC quoting the Oher court filing: "The petition states that the movie, which made over $309 million worldwide at the box office, according to Box Office Mojo, paid the Tuohys and their now-adult birth children each $225,000, plus 2.5% of the movie’s defined net proceeds. The petition alleges that Oher earned nothing."
@@nightsonnyjim that's Oher's claim and the Tuohys say the five of them got $14k each from the Michael Lewis split. Sean Tuohy Jr. acknowledged on Barstool that he got residual payments but said nothing a split if 2.5% of movie net revenue, Sean Sr so far denied that. It's documented that the movie company gave $200k to a charity in the Tuohy parent's name ...
How does he sign an NFL Contract and not know about the Conservatorship? Who was his Agent? Does not make sense.
His agent was likely someone that they hired and is also guilty!
If he your son the where is the adoption paperwork. Clearly he has saw the real paperwork
So you care about someone and you tell the world you adopt and instead you do a conservatorship? This is super fishy
This is a story of our times. Parents and children that drift appart like enemies because money, and hate. There is no love, respect or sensitivity left in our country among close family members. It have happened not just with adopted or semiadopted kids, but with blood children, loving or not loving this happens everywhere.
Lies again? UEFA SW MLS NFL TUSHY
They were not his parents and didn't care about him.
He is not suing them he's trying to get out of the service for ship he has to take him to court to make it stop right😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe his book sales need some controversy to improve
Truly Disgusting 🤮
You expect me to believe they got nothing from the movie and I assume they claim they got nothing from the book either? Also that precious little quote "It's upsetting to think we would make money off any of our children. But we're going to love Michael at 37 just like we loved him at 16"... Well I guess it's convenient Michael isn't one of your children then isn't it? Since rather than adopting him your roped him into a conservatorship. What judge even allowed that conservatorship when he showed no impairments that would have made one necessary.
Did he spend all his money, now he's broke and wants money? He also didn't have an sports agent or lawyer to tell him his "parents" are ripping him off or to be careful?
He just found out in February, as was mentioned a couple times in the segment.
He wants his name back and with the conservaship they took away his rights to control his own money and future.
Why would he have a lawyer or agent at 18? They got him at his most vulnerable and in need of trust.
@@gabrieljean-batiste2006 I had my own bank account when I was 13. My dad took me to his bank and got me started. When i was 18 I got my credit card to start building my credit. I think this football player is just really dumb, because he "signed the rights to his life's story away" for free. He probably couldn't read hence why he was taken advantage of.
It just dont look like their heart in the real place
Ungrateful
People are gonna be looking at that movie differently now
was he like "you threaten my finances. you threaten me"
Bruh, its paper trail…if you have adopted him, then show it. If you put him into a conservatory than you took his money. He’s 18
They only need guardianship to put him in school. They did this to control him.