From ESPN
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 themselves 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 the 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.
"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 legal filing says. "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."
12 comments:
Wow…you know I always felt like something was wrong w this story. He always seemed uncomfortable when discussing it… it was the poor impoverished black kid being saved by the good whites ….and he never got shit from the film ???? That’s crazy 😳
Well I’ll be d*mned. Smh
Yo, this is evil.
Wow, why they had to do him like that.
Colonialism is alive and kicking, devils.
They should be made to pay restitution!
Now is this the reason for them being investigated in the movie because it insinuates that they were up to something nefarious regarding him and now it makes sense. Love how they just glossed over it to make it seem like they were being unfairly targeted for trying to help this young black man. Those documents he signed at 18 were the family securing their investment. They spotted an opportunity and exploited it, he is just collateral damage. He trusted them and they knew it would be easy to manipulate him. Sad af, they could have made sure he was aligned financially and it would not have hurt them
Colonizers be colonizing.
Nothing New Here, Wh!te Folks Have Always Gotten Rich Stealing From Blacks...
Just history continuing to repeat itself!! Black folks gotta educate themselves on financial literary 😤
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"While the deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the petition alleges, a separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox studios the life rights to his story "without any payment whatsoever." The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him."
So at age 21, an adult, he signed away his rights to any money from the movie? And he was expecting other people to explain things to him? Did he even READ the contract? It sounds like he doesn't read the things he signs. Didn't read the conservatorship agreement. Didn't read the management deals he signed with the Tuohys' friends. Didn't read the contracts he signed with colleges. Didn't read the contract with 20th Century Fox. He just signs whatever paper is put in front of him. Dumb.
And since the film's success coincided with the start of his lucrative NFL career in 2009, Oher did not take the time to fully investigate the deal until after he retired in 2016, Stranch said.
So he supposedly didn't receive a penny from the movie but didn't bother asking questions until 7 years after the movie came out?
Sounds like he's lazy with his business - even and especially as an adult. He doesn't read things he signs. He doesn't perform due diligence on anything involving contracts. And if money's missing, he doesn't notice or doesn't get off his ass to do something about it until a decade later.
He's 37 years old now. Probably still behaving the same way today, signing things without reading them. And will so going forward.
Michael Oher in 2043: "I signed a bad contract back in 2023, but no one explained to me what I was signing."
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They always doing something , they definitely need a 'motive' check. Another niggha taught a lesson by the mental mind delusion of a 'whyt savior'. That whyt court ain't gon give him shyt back.
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