BALTIMORE - Former Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Oher, the subject of the 2009 film "The Blind Side," claims the Tuohy family made "demonstrably false" claims about the money they made off his story, according to a report by ESPN.
Oher was a first-round draft pick by the Ravens in the 2009 NFL Draft. "The Blind Side" depicts that Oher was a teenager in poverty when the Tuohy family took him in and adopted him before he went to play college football at Mississippi and then the NFL.
However, Oher filed a lawsuit in a Tennessee court claiming the family took advantage of him, tricked him into a conservatorship and made money off of his name.
He accused Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of falsely representing themselves as his adoptive parents, saying he discovered last February the conservatorship agreed to in 2004 was not the arrangement he thought it was — and that it provided him no familial relationship with them. He claims the Tuohys have kept him in the dark about financial dealings related to his name, image and likeness during the 19-year life of the agreement.
Back in September, the judge ended the conservatorship agreement between Oher and the Memphis couple who took him in when he was in high school.
According to ESPN, in a 16-page document filed on Tuesday, Oher alleges the Tuohys did not account for $2.5 million taken from him in 2011 when he was in his third NFL season.
At the time, the Tuohys were his conservators, which gave them the legal right to forge...
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