Michael Oher, Subject of Blind Side, Says Tuohy Family Earned Millions After Lying About Adoption – E! Online

The authorized submitting claims that the film paid the Tuohys and their two kids $225,000 every, plus 2.5% of the movie’s “outlined web proceeds.” 

The doc additionally alleges that whereas the deal allowed the Tuohys to revenue from the film, a separate contract purportedly signed by Oher seems to “give away” the life rights to his story “with none cost by any means.”

Nevertheless, Oher alleges that he would not know “whether or not the signature was cast,” including that he at “no time ever willingly or knowingly signed this doc,” nor was an evidence offered to him.

Oher, now 37, additionally alleges within the petition that the Tuohys used their energy as conservators to strike a deal that paid them and their kids tens of millions of {dollars} in royalties, whereas the previous Tennessee Titans participant did not obtain something for a narrative “that may not have existed with out him.”

His authorized petition is asking the courtroom to finish the Tuohys’ conservatorship and to difficulty an injunction to cease them from utilizing his identify and likeness. The submitting can be searching for a full accounting of the cash the Tuohys earned utilizing Oher’s identify and to have the couple pay him his justifiable share of earnings, in addition to unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

E! Information has reached out to reps for Oher and the Tuohys for remark and has not heard again.