This week retired football player Michael Oher, subject of the Academy Award winning film, "The Blindside," shocked his fans after accusing the Tuhoy family of lying about adopting him and instead tricking him into signing conservatorship papers [click here if you missed that].
Now the Tuhoy family is accusing Oher of extortion...
From Variety
An attorney for Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy has issued a response to Michael Oher’s petition against them, which alleged that the couple deceived Oher into making the pair his conservators at age 18 and that he has not shared in the revenue from the feature “The Blind Side,” which drew from his life story.
The Tuohys’ attorney, Marty Singer, distributed a lengthy statement on Tuesday afternoon, alleging that Oher had “threatened” the couple by saying that “he would plant a negative story about them in the press unless they paid him $15 million” and dismissing the petition as “a ludicrous lawsuit” and a “cynical attempt to drum up attention in the middle of his latest book tour.”
“The Tuohys opened their home to Mr. Oher, offered him structure, support and, most of all, unconditional love. 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,” Singer writes, characterizing Oher’s alleged contentions as a “shakedown effort.”
The statement also offers an account of the dealmaking process behind adapting Michael Lewis’ 2006 book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” into the 2009 Oscar-winning feature starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron. Singer says that the Tuohys “insisted that any money received be divided equally” and “they have made good on that pledge.”
“Over the years, the Tuohys have given Mr. Oher an equal cut of every penny received from ‘The Blind Side,'” Singer continues.
6 comments:
Is he under conservatorship or not?
How Sway!? It's clear as day they ran the play.
I hope he got a piece of the wife! The husband looks like a cuck! That milf look like she had some A1 cooter 20 years ago!
Marty is a great attorney, someone I have a lot of respect for, but the Tuohy family appears to be using the extortion excuse to scare Michael from talking about what they did. Unless the Tuohy family agrees to Michael Oher's request for the "accounting for all sums of money generated because of his conservatorship and any profits from that movie, and book", I'm not going to believe anything they say. Either they reveal the profits from that movie and how much they paid Michael for using his depiction, I'm just going to believe they're dishonest and manipulative thieves. He says they didn't pay him anything from those profits, which should be easy for him to prove.
How is he scamming or extoring them when he's the one earning the income. MFs are inventive if nothing else.
Whitey do what they do best. Steal, lie, swindle, cover up, and lie some more.
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