Retired NFL star Michael Oher’s life was made into the the 2009 movie “The Blind Side.” In the movie, Michael was adopted by a wealthy, white familywho saved his life. Now Michael is claiming that the family, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, was really just scamming him – to take advantage of him.
Embed from Getty ImagesMedia Take Out learned that Michael is now petitioning a Tennessee court claiming that the central element of the story – that he was adopted – was a lie concocted by the family to enrich itself at his expense.
The 14-page petition, Michael claims that the Tuohy’s took him into their home as a high school student, but they never adopted him.
Instead, less than three months after Michael turned 18 in 2004, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his “conservators,” which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name – FOREVER.
Embed from Getty ImagesThen, Michael claims that the Tuohy;s sold the rights to his life for a movie, and kept all the money for themselves, Media Take Out has learned.
While the deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the couple made a separate 2007 contract for Michael to “give away” to 20th Century Fox studios the life rights to his story “without any payment whatsoever.”
The Tuohy’s made a fortune of the movie. Check them out here on a yacht:
[social_warfare]@itsabigailadams its been on my mind ALL DAY #belowdeck #belowdeckbravo #bravo #theblindside #greenscreen ♬ original sound – Abigail Adams
