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What do you do if you are a negro from a broken family (alcoholic & crack addict mother, criminal father who died in prison) who alternated between homelessness & living in foster care until a sympathetic and caring white couple - with 2 young kids of their own - decided to take you in and shower you with everything you need that your birth parents could never provide?
Naturally, you try to run a shakedown scam against the people who did everything to help you and publicly accuse them of trying to defraud YOU!
‘Blind Side’ Tuohy family accuses ex-NFLer Michael Oher of $15M ‘shakedown’ before bombshell court filing
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Naturally, you try to run a shakedown scam against the people who did everything to help you and publicly accuse them of trying to defraud YOU!
‘Blind Side’ Tuohy family accuses ex-NFLer Michael Oher of $15M ‘shakedown’ before bombshell court filing
Michael Oher, the ex-NFL star whose story inspired the Oscar-winning film “The Blind Side,” allegedly asked his adoptive family for $15 million not to go public with claims they swindled him, according to the family’s attorney.
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy said through their legal representative there is no credence to Oher’s claims he was fooled into a conservatorship and rubbished claims the couple made millions off his life’s story.
Oher was instead the principal offender who has repeatedly threatened to “plant a negative story” about the Tuohys in the press if they didn’t cough up an eight-figure check.
“Over the years, the Tuohys have given Mr. Oher an equal cut of every penny received from ‘The Blind Side,’” attorney Marty Singer said.
“Even recently, when Mr. Oher started to threaten them 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.”
Oher claims that through the conservatorship, the Tuohys made millions of dollars thanks to “The Blind Side,” which grossed $300 million in the box office, while he didn’t receive a single cent.
Singer denied the allegations, saying the Tuohys only “received a small advance from the production company and a tiny percentage of net profits.”
Oher’s lawsuit claims the couple, along with their two birth children, made $225,000 each from the movie, plus 2.5 percent of the “defined net proceeds.”
Singer also asserted the Tuohys had no reason to scam Oher given that they are millionaires in their own rights thanks to their fast food franchise dealings, which had netted them $213 million.
“The notion that a couple worth hundreds of millions of dollars would connive to withhold a few thousand dollars in profit participation payments from anyone — let alone from someone they loved as a son — defies belief,” Singer told TMZ.
Sean Tuohy told the Daily Memphian that the claims have “devastated” the family.
Tuohy said the conservatorship was drawn up to ensure that Oher was eligible to play football at the University of Mississippi.
Tuohy is a booster at the school, and if Oher wasn’t part of the family, there could have been potential NCAA issues sending him there.
“I sat Michael down and told him, ‘If you’re planning to go to Ole Miss — or even considering Ole Miss — we think you have to be part of the family. This would do that legally,'” Tuohy said.
“We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn’t adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship. We were so concerned it was on the up-and-up that we made sure the biological mother came to court.”

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