Michael Oher’s Texts Show Tuohy Family Claims True?

The narrative that served as the basis for the Oscar-winning movie The Blind Side took a drastically different turn on Monday when Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy claimed that Michael Oher had threatened to kill them if they did not transfer him millions of dollars in extortion.

Michael Oher’s Texts Show Tuohy Family Claims True?

Attorneys for Sean,64, and Leigh Anne,63, shared screenshots of purported texts from Oher,37, to them on Monday in a court filing. In the messages, Oher refers to them as “thieves” and threatens to make public their disagreement over the 2009 movie’s profits unless they send him more than $15 million.

According to the documents obtained by TMZ, the family said that Oher had threatened to “defame them on social media and/or TMZ as ‘fakes’ and ‘thieves'” if they failed to pay.

The latest court filings are a part of the continuing legal battle between Oher and the Tuohy family, as Oher alleges they never paid him a fair portion of the earnings from the successful 2009 movie.

According to the documents, Oher sent numerous texts claiming was “robbed of fifty million+” before dropping the number

“If something isn’t resolved this Friday, I’m going to go ahead and tell the world, how I was robbed by my suppose to be [sic] parents. That’s the deadline,” Oher wrote in a text according to the legal docs.

The Tuohys responded to Oher’s motion for a temporary injunction in the case on Monday, stating that Oher “should be denied,” that the family does not owe him any additional money, and that the now-retired NFL player has threatened Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy on multiple occasions with “menacing” texts and emails demanding millions of dollars.

The attorneys for the Tuohys provided screenshots of some of the texts they claim Oher used to extort the family on Monday in an exhibit that was attached.

“It was 10 million now I want 15 after taxes,” another alleged text reads.

The Tuohy family did not include their responses to Oher in the screenshots submitted in Monday’s filings.

In August, Oher stated he had lately learned the Tuohy family had never formally adopted him and that he thought they had intentionally embezzled money that should have gone to him from the movie.

Oher stated that early this year, his attorneys revealed to him that he had only recently discovered, at the age of 18, that he had been placed into a conservatorship with the Tuohys. The now father of two characterized this revelation as devastating.

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“Mike didn’t grow up with a stable family life,” his attorney J. Gerard Stranch IV told ESPN in August. “When the Tuohy family told Mike they loved him and wanted to adopt him, it filled a void that had been with him his entire life. Discovering that he wasn’t actually adopted devastated Mike and wounded him deeply.”

The Tuohys legal team had previously claimed in court documents that Oher had received payments from them totalling $138,311 for film royalties.

According to the November complaint, evidence included a payment that was sent as recently as April.

The popular movie, which starred Sandra Bullock and recounted Oher’s narrative and his friendship with the Tuohy family, focused on him and the Tuohys.

Oher has been depicted by the Tuohy family’s attorneys as someone who has attempted to get money from them on previous occasions, according to the latest court documents.

“Following the announcement of Oher’s bombshell lawsuit in August, attorney Marty Singer told TMZ of Oher’s alleged attempt to get $15 million out of the family.”

The Tuohys had never submitted an accounting of Oher’s money since he consented to be put under conservatorship in 2004, even though the court had mandated them to do so legally.

The Tuohys claimed to have sent $138,311.01 to Oher in 10 payments starting in 2007 when they finally did so last month. According to the family’s bookkeeping, Oher received its $8,480,10 last payment on April 17, 2023. According to the couple’s documents from Monday, they deposited Oher’s money into a bank account belonging to his son Michael Oher Jr. when he started to refuse payments.

The movie went on to make more than $330 million at the box office, plus more as the film gained even more notoriety when it was nominated for Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards and Sandra Bullock won the Oscar Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Leigh Anne.

He said in an August court filing that the Tuohy family tricked him into thinking they adopted him when, in fact, they had a conservatorship arrangement with him in 2004 when he was eighteen.

The conservatorship was terminated by a judge in September, but the legal dispute over the money earned from the movie and Oher’s tale has persisted in court.

The Tuohys stated in a September filing that there was “never an intent to adopt” Oher into their family and that the conservatorship was set up as a means of getting around NCAA recruiting regulations so that Oher could play college football at Sean Tuohy’s alma mater, the University of Mississippi, without breaking any eligibility requirements.

After being selected in the 2009 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens, Oher played for eight seasons before winning the Super Bowl in 2013.

Did the Tuohy family actually adopt Michael Oher?

According to the AP, Oher said the Tuohys had tricked him into believing they had adopted him when, in fact, they had signed a conservatorship arrangement with him in 2004, when he was eighteen. The pair claimed in a September court document that they never planned to adopt Oher and that they didn’t profit from his name.

What happened between Michael Oher and the Tuohy?

Oher, 37, said in his August petition that the Tuohy family had duped him into appointing them as his conservators by falsely representing to him that there was no significant distinction between being adopted and putting yourself under conservatorship.

 

 

 

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