Former NFL player Michael Oher claims his adoptive parent’s accounting of the family’s ‘Blind Side’ money is “confusing” and “false.”
In new documents obtained by The Blast, Oher is claiming the “documents are contradictory, confusing, false in material ways, and wholly inadequate to account for the assets of (his) estate.”
Oher is asking the court “to strike these two filings” and asks the Tuohy’s to “produce and file forthwith the complete and honest accounting required by Tennessee law.”
Michael Oher Claims Documents Are ‘Confusing’ and ‘False’
In the filing, Oher’s legal team says the Tuohys “have offered up various stories of what they received” regarding Oher’s life story. At first, they stated that they received “nothing.” That was then contradicted after their son, Sean Tuohy, Jr, “stated that “they said they shared 1/5 of the proceeds of ‘The Blind Side’ royalty rights.”
Now, however, they are claiming they shared 1/3 rather than 1/5 of “The Blind Side”‘s proceeds. “These inconsistencies demonstrate the inaccuracies on the face of the ‘Accounting’,” the documents state.
Oher alleges that the Tuohys’ “made a poor and even foolish deal with Twentieth Century Fox for the transfer of Oher’s NIL rights to Twentieth Century Fox “without consulting attorneys’ expertise in the area of entertainment law or NCAA Standards.”
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This comes just days after The New York Times reported that the former Carolina Panthers star claimed that beginning at the age of 7, he went back and forth from foster care to being homeless.
“I was one of 12 kids,” Oher wrote in his book “When Your Back’s Against the Wall,” adding, “I don’t remember anyone ever having a job and no one in my family graduated from high school before me. Just about every adult in my life was addicted to crack cocaine. I barely knew my father before he was killed. I was on my own from age 7, going back and forth from foster care to living on the street. I attended 11 schools in nine years.”
Oher’s close friend, Quintero Franklin, who said he met the 37-year-old when they went to Briarcrest Christain School, stated, “I’m embarrassed for him as a friend. It’s not accurate and it’s hurtful.”
As we reported, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy claim they paid Michael Oher $138,000 of proceeds from the blockbuster film and preceding book “The Blind Side,” despite his claim that the couple never paid him his share of the profits.
Now, Oher is saying the accounting is false and is preparing to face his adoptive parents in court.
Both parties are due in court…tomorrow. Stay Tuned.