The book “The Blind Side” was made into a film which was released in 2009.
According to court documents filed Wednesday in Shelby County Probate Court in Tennessee, Shawn and Leigh Anne Tuohy paid former NFL star Michael Oher more than $138,000 for the 2006 book “The Blind Side” and the 2009 film of the same name. Had paid.
The book “The Blind Side” by Michael Lewis and the film, which was based on the book and starred Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw and Lily Collins, were based on Oher’s life story. Earlier this year, Ohr alleged that Tuohys had been profiting from him and his story for years.
According to one of the court documents filed this week, the Tuohy family – Shawn and Leigh Anne Tuohy, as well as their children SJ and Collins – agreed with Michael Oher to “distribute the proceeds of the book and film to five Had to be divided ways”
According to court documents, a total of $138,311.01 was paid in multiple check payments between June 2007 and April 2023, although some checks from 2021 and 2022 did not clear Ohr’s bank account.
Tuohys also claimed that he “never received any money on behalf of Michael Ohr as conservator” and did not control any money or transactions on Ohr’s behalf during his conservatorship, and instead he “did his own business.” Spent thousands of dollars “to support” Ohr, now 37, while he was in high school and college.
Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes said in September that she was terminating the guardianship agreement, which was initially signed when Ohr was 18 and following a petition by Ohr to receive a college football recruiting offer. Were staying.
Ohr first filed a lawsuit against the Tuohys on August 14, alleging that Sean and Leigh Ann Tuohy defrauded him into signing guardianship papers in 2004. He claimed he told them it was, “for all intents and purposes, an adoption,” but since he was over the age of 18, he would be under what would be called a guardianship.
In her petition, Ohr claimed that she learned in February that the Tuohy family was profiting from her life story and career, and took over the conservatorship “to which she had agreed on the basis that by doing so she would in fact be taking over the Tuohy family.” shall become members provided that they do not have any family relationship with them”.
Ohr also alleges in the petition that she was not paid for the film “The Blind Side,” which is based on her life, but was paid for all four members of the Tuohy family – Shawn and Leigh Ann, as well as their two children. – was also not paid. – -Did. He claimed that he received “nothing for his rights to a story that would not have existed without him.”
Ohr’s petition asked the Tuohys to “keep an account of all sums of money belonging to their said ward… and pay such sums received by them… together with interest from the time of receipt of such sums They also asked for compensatory and punitive damages, as well as for the Tuohys to pay all of their costs and attorney’s fees incurred during the process “for their misconduct.”
In their response filing, Shawn and Leigh Ann Tuohy claimed that earnings from “The Blind Side” were divided equally between them, their two biological children, and Ohr, with each person receiving 20%. .
The Tuohys also said that they “strongly deny that they told (Oher) that they intended to legally adopt her.” The couple said they “sometimes refer to (him) as a son” but only “in a colloquial sense and they never intended that reference to be viewed with legal implications.”
The conservatorship, he claimed, “only began as a result of (Oher’s) opportunity to play college football.” They said in the filing that there was “never” an attempt to adopt her.
The Tuohys said in their filing that they have no objection to the conservatorship ending, noting that they are “ready, willing and able to terminate the conservatorship at any time.” He also asked the judge to “reject all relief sought by (Oher).”
ABC News has contacted Ohr’s representatives for comment on the latest court filings.