Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy paid more than $138,000 in profits to former NFL star Michael Oher for his involvement in the Blind Side book and film.
A Tennessee judge announced that she is ending the conservatorship agreement between ex-NFL player Michael Oher and the Tuohy family who took him under their wing when he was in high school. The story was the inspiration behind the 2008 film The Blind Side.
According to the Tuohy family’s attorney, Michael Oher, the ex-NFL star whose story inspired the Oscar-winning film “The Blind Side,” allegedly demanded that his conservatorship family pay him an extra $15 million or he would go public with claims that they swindled him.
Retired NFL player Michael Oher, who’s supposed adoption out of poverty inspired the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” petitioned a Tennessee court Monday claiming that the family never legally adopted him and lied about their familial status for profit.