A day after Michael Oher, the former NFL player and subject of the 2009 movie The Blind Side, alleged in a court filing that the family who took him in as a young player had deceived him about being adopted and deprived him of earnings from the Oscar-nominated film, the family has hit back.
A long rebuttal by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s high-powered entertainment attorney Marty Singer made public Tuesday said Oher’s claims “that the Tuohys have ever sought to profit off Mr. Oher is not only offensive, it is transparently ridiculous.”
Singer also said Oher recently “started to threaten [the family] about what he would do unless they paid him an eight-figure windfall, and, as part of that shakedown effort refused to cash the small profit checks from the Tuohys, they still deposited Mr. Oher’s equal share into a trust account they set up for his son.”
“Unbeknownst to the public,...
A long rebuttal by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s high-powered entertainment attorney Marty Singer made public Tuesday said Oher’s claims “that the Tuohys have ever sought to profit off Mr. Oher is not only offensive, it is transparently ridiculous.”
Singer also said Oher recently “started to threaten [the family] about what he would do unless they paid him an eight-figure windfall, and, as part of that shakedown effort refused to cash the small profit checks from the Tuohys, they still deposited Mr. Oher’s equal share into a trust account they set up for his son.”
“Unbeknownst to the public,...
- 8/15/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Oher, the longtime NFL lineman who rose to national attention when his life story became the basis for the inspirational movie The Blind Side that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar, has petitioned a court saying the basis for the story was not based in fact.
According to a deep-dive story by ESPN on Monday, Oher has filed a petition in Tennessee probate court alleging that a key tenet of his rags-to-riches story — that he was adopted by the Tuohy family, who eventually guided Oher to play football at their alma mater the University of Mississippi and then to the NFL — was untrue. Rather, Oher claims he was tricked by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy to signing conservatorship papers just after he turned 18 that gave them the right to make deals in his name.
Oher did not discover the new information until February of this year, according to the petition.
According to a deep-dive story by ESPN on Monday, Oher has filed a petition in Tennessee probate court alleging that a key tenet of his rags-to-riches story — that he was adopted by the Tuohy family, who eventually guided Oher to play football at their alma mater the University of Mississippi and then to the NFL — was untrue. Rather, Oher claims he was tricked by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy to signing conservatorship papers just after he turned 18 that gave them the right to make deals in his name.
Oher did not discover the new information until February of this year, according to the petition.
- 8/14/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A man suspected of drunk driving crashed his car into a Waco, Texas, home featured on Fixer Upper early Saturday morning, according to a local report.
The homeowners, Ken and Kelly Downs, were not injured when the vehicle crashed into the front room office, according to the Waco Tribute-Herald. The house, nicknamed the “Three Little Pigs House” when it appeared on season 3 of the Hgtv hit was renovated by the husband-wife duo Chip and Joanna Gaines.
“The yard is built up several feet, and he hit the embankment of the yard, apparently went airborne, and like a lot of older homes,...
The homeowners, Ken and Kelly Downs, were not injured when the vehicle crashed into the front room office, according to the Waco Tribute-Herald. The house, nicknamed the “Three Little Pigs House” when it appeared on season 3 of the Hgtv hit was renovated by the husband-wife duo Chip and Joanna Gaines.
“The yard is built up several feet, and he hit the embankment of the yard, apparently went airborne, and like a lot of older homes,...
- 7/9/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
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