Tuohy family says Michael Oher tried to shake them down for $15M
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- After former NFL player Michael Oher filed a lawsuit against the Touhy family claiming he was lied to and exploited for their financial gain‚ their attorney alleges Oher previously threatened them in an attempted shakedown, saying that "he would plant a negative story about them in the press unless they paid him $15 million." NBC’s Kaylee Hartung reports and Laura Jarrett provides analysis for TODAY on the "Blind Side" battle.
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In the movie, adoption wasn’t mentioned. They became his guardians.
Apparently Mississippi law allows for individuals over 18 to be adopted but the family went the conservatorship route instead. Why didn't they adopt him then? Edit/Update: I see Tennessee law allows for over 18 adoptions as well. The family could have adopted at any time after the conservatorship but continued to say he was their adopted child which is a lie!
They didn't live in Mississippi. they lived in Memphis
@@clintfowler2709I Googled it and Tennessee allowed adoptions over 18 as well.
@@clintfowler2709 Memphis also allows adult adoption
Why didn't a Black family adopt him instead?
@@nghtwtchmn129 He was already 18 at the time. It was his senior year that he ended up homeless. Also he was already under recruitment, full scholarships, and what not. He ended up homeless during this, and that was when this family "took him in" He was already a football Allstar.
No good deed go unpunished!
He could be telling the truth or he burned through all his cash and figures since they still have 100 million, that they "owe" him.
I'm 50% 50% you never know, the couple could be like the Chrisly* reality TV show fraudster couple.
NO LEFT TURN UNSTONED
No bad deed go unpunished
They should not have said they adopted him if they did not. Period, end of story. Don't lie!
Not once was there an annual financial accounting. The conservatorship did not protect him from giving away his Name and image. He asked to stop this conservatorship by filing and it is still in effect.
The reason for the conservatorship was never put in place to protect him from his own poor decision making but to help him get insurance, driver license and entrance in Ole Miss. And this lawsuit he JUST filed is the first time he asked for the end of the conservatorship!
The way the judge granted powers to the Tuohys, they are not technically conservators of his property, so they may not be legally obligated to do the accounting.
The thing is, they must have represented to him they were adopting him. Implicit in such a way of acting is the right to inheritance...and the family has at least a couple hundred million.
The conservatorships most dangerous power is something that would have happened in the future. A point before Oher's death(The power of attorney is not durable) but after he's not fully sharp enough to battle legally. The biological children, as successors, can use their powers of attorney to basically raid his property and accounts, and make his medical decisions.
He is saying in public he wants to end it, they are saying in public that he can whenever he wants. They literally had 100s of millions of dollars before they ever even met him, he's destroying his and their public image for thousands of dollars worth of film royalties, first trying to extort/bribe them for 15mil
@@covertpuppytwo3857You need to do more research. Oher never asked to end the conservatorship previously because when he signed off on it in the early 2000s, they waived his right to guardian ad litem (neutral 3rd party appointed by the court to represent the best interests of Michael AND they explained conservatorship to him completely wrong.
@@Cagebreaker _"they explained conservatorship to him completely wrong"_ - because you were there when they explained it to him? Tell me, during the court proceeding while this happened legally, did they also not explain it to his BIOLOGICAL mother who was also there? _"they waived his right to guardian ad litem (neutral 3rd party appointed by the court to represent the best interests of Michael"_ THEY? NOT THEY! The guardian issue was waived because Oher was 18 and his *BIOLOGICAL mother* consented. But nerveless, this all occurred many years ago... so are you saying the Tuohy family then abused the conservatorship and stole from Michael because "they waived" guardian ad litem? And if so... WHERE and WHEN because that's NONSENSE!!! Not once did the Tuohy's use their conservatorship to exercise anything regarding Michael's business dealing with the movie nor his football career! He himself signed NFL contracts, he himself controlled his own money... With regards to the movie... each member of the Tuohy family earned the same amount including Michael... though the Tuohy family paid Michael's taxes on it.
I can’t wait for this whole story to come out. The Tuohy’s didn’t need his money. They were multimillionaires. It was a shakedown. Shame on you Michael. You know exactly what happened
They lied - they said they ADOPTED him; they NEVER adopted him, they made him think that and had him sign a conservatorship which is NOT the definition of adoption to one's family, yet let him and the entire world believe that he was a TRUE part of their family. Now they want to say it is a shakedown?
What shakedown? They never adopted him as they claim all over their own website family bio and made money off him from a movie that would not have existed without him.
They have never used the term adopted. Maybe in the movie...but hey, that's Hollywood.
The movie/book deal was less then 0.5% of their net-worth, the Touhys sold parts of their fast food business for $220million dollars, the book deal was less than $1million dollars. So tell me what selfish motive would they have here? I think they were genuine in wanting to give Michael a home.
@@dexterplameras3249you just answered your own question. What millionaire isn't interested in a million dollars?
@@dexterplameras3249 and yet they exploited this man’s talent for their own selfish gain. and forced him to go to their alma mater. and yet their kids didn’t go there hmmm
I could be wrong, they had money. They also saved him. If they didn't (keyword) take nfl money etc from him its gonna be tough. However if they are a family, the money shldnt be a prob. The problem is some1 outside is getting into family business. Remember it was not guaranteed he would go to the NFL.
He spend his football money and now he wants to hit them up for money. The story was about the FAMILY not just him. It would have been a great story if he never even played in the NFL. The movie made him a higher profile name too. It will be very interesting to she this shake out in the wash. Something stinks.
Conservatorships are meant for people who are underage, mentally unfit or physically unfit. The Touhys lied that Oher was mentally unfit person. The movie made it even worse in spreading that lie - and they know it.
Oher got married to his longtime girlfriend and baby mama last year. The Touhys clearly stopped him from getting married for years. Now they allowed him to marry, he is trying to break from the conservatorship and be his own family man.
@@petermj1098 Where is it written that they stopped him from getting married. They haven't even talked to him in 10 years.
The Touy's got $225,000 AND 2.5% of the movie profits of $333 million. The $40,000 claim is a bold-faced lie. So, so far they lied very publicly about the adoption, as well as the verifiable movie earnings. Looks like Oher gave them an opportunity to make things right PRIVATELY and they refused. So he went public. That's not a shakedown. We also know that Leann lied about teaching Oher the game of football, despite him being All State before they even met. They are ghouls.
The Tuohy family got $500,000 from the movie and spit it evenly. Everyone got $100,000 including Michael Oher.
Not only that, they use the story to promote their personal intersts and business, I'm sure more tha one went into business with the Tuohy moved by the hartwaming story, that is a lie.
@@user-yk2zb6nm7o if that is the case why did he claim he didnt get any of the money nor has the family the tuohy stated the gave him any funds. So far its just you where are you getting this information.
To be fair the "profits" from that movie would be half of the 333m$.
That's what the studios would get
@@dicksavage5746 of course. But 2.5 % of $150-ish million is still more than ZERO DOLLARS.
His first book apparently states they had a conservatorship. The writer of that book apparently says this is the case. Did he not read the first book? G
They told him that because he was over 18 they could not adopt him but they HAD to go into a conservatorship instead for him to be their son. As an 18 y.o. did not know what it meant. Which was a lie and was just a way to profit off of him.
It doesn’t really make sense to me. I mean why would they even need to profit off of him when they already have millions of dollars. Not only that but when they brought him into their home, they couldn’t have known that Michael would end up becoming an NFL football player, making him tons of money, nor could they have known that the story would be turned into an Oscar winning movie making even more millions. What’s their motive here?
Did the family get the money from his NFL deals as his conservator? If not and he's just wanting hia cut from royalties, he may be in for a shock. Book deals arent worth millions, and the family is only the featured story. The author gets the movie-book tie up deal. Any trickle down royalties arent going to be in the 15M he's allegedly asking from the Tuohys.
although i am on his side , i do not think they did (supposedly, per their lawyers)
but i would love to see their finances combed thru bc it all smells fishy, like, they were millionaires when they met him?
idk. either way, i hope everything turns out in the positive for him.
The author is a childhood friend of Sean. He writes a book and then they get a movie deal for the book. I think that is suspicious.
The story isn't exclusively about Oher anyway, it's about Oher and the family that took him in, and the football process......personally I'm more interested in the Tuohy's than I am in Oher.
@@rgsxyz1105 It’s about a family that took in a homeless kid who was on his way to become a football star. The book would not have sold if it was some random kid with no talent.
No they never got any of his NFL money..
I watched the movie and definitely got the impression from the movie that the Tuohy's were interested in helping him because their long game was to have him play at Ole Miss.
You can say the same for any parent to a child. Any parent would want their kids to go to their alma mater.
@@charles9571 - beg to disagree; I know several parents who were comfortable with their children’s different choice of college.
And Some parents are insightful enough to know that their child would not be a good match for their Alma mater.
their long game was to take him out of the crack infested streets, and give him an opportunity almost noone ever gets in life. They had literally hundreds of millions of dollars, saw a homeless kid that had some ambitions to get off the streets, and they helped him. The alternative is Michael doesn't get helped by them, doesn't go to college, doesnt play in the NFL and nobody ever knows about him.
🤷 Did Michael Lewis' book and the movie ever explicitly mention adoption? 🤔 💭 In his first book, Oher says that he was told, and therefore had already known, he was under a conservatorship. 😒 It seems the conservatorship was just a legal gimmick to avoid accusations of violating NCAA rules regulating boosterism. 🎥 The movie was negotiated and filmed during Oher's last year at Ole Miss, and it was released when Oher was drafted in the NFL in 2009, so does he now regret that he wasn't able to negotiate independently with the movie production for a bigger cut?
Lewis is a family friend so was Aunty Lawyer.
Michael is so ungrateful! His own birth mother went to court for the conservatorship!! Give me a break!!
Why did he wait so long?
He’s broke now
He learned about this 6 months ago.
@@bluecorp8557learned about what 6 months ago? He knew his situation in 2011
@@manny45629 He was informed that he wasn’t adopted just under conservatorship 6 months ago.
If any of these people had bothered to read Michael's first book, they would know he talked in great detail about the conservatorship. I'm sure Jussie Smollett will play him in the Lifetime movie.
Manh im just depressed knowing all that feel-good humanity exist movie was all fake, reality is just ugly
It wasn't fake. The movie never claimed he was adopted.
@@michaelschaefer1904but it did claim that the family taught him football and what colors were😂
dude was an all American before being preyed on by this family
@@MeBihhhhNot a documentary. It was a Hollywood movie where the writers changed the story to make it more entertaining. Blame the writers.
@@luv2travel2000 you @ the wrong guy😂 you thought I was the one that said the movie wasn’t fake lol
the white savior trope
The adopted mother and sister collins and Leigh Ann make a great amount for public speaking and advocating for adoption and this was years ago they use Michael and the story as a spring board. I remember none of them were at his wedding recently and I thought that was odd
He separated from them for over a decade and didn't invite them to his wedding.
It was their experience too. Don't you think them promoting adoption helped even just one kid? Maybe they used the platform of the blindside to promote adoption, or maybe they were invited to help kids into homes.
@@kitchg5526but don't lie! They keep saying they adopted him but they didn't. Creepy.
he was 17 and had no money. The conservatorship was signed before there was any NFL, Movie, and all that. My guess is that they did it just before the book, which had limited income potential. They did it so they could tell his story without endangering his scholarship. Remember, there was no NIL back then. As an NCAA athlete he couldn’t make any money or it would disqualify him from playing college football and from getting a chance in the nfl. They were protecting him. And people forget that this family were multimillionaires before they met Michael. They didn’t need him to make money and when he entered that agreement he didn’t have any and would be at least 4 years away from seeing any, and that assumes no career ending injury or trouble with grades or the law. Not all SEC Left Tackles become NFL players. Most do not.
What this is about is his greed. He probably has blown through a lot of his nfl money, and now realizes that because he wasn’t adopted, he can’t inherit any of their millions. So he’s trying to get it another way.
Good comment. Agree with you.
ofc he blew through his money….NFL players don’t make a lot of money and their money isn’t even guaranteed. if you were lead to believe you were adopted. you would assume you got some money to fall back on like those biological kids.
Good points, also was necessary for healthcare insurance, maybe car insurance, free restaurant food... There is probably a lot of reasonable explanations.
Agreed, this is probably the case
@@edwardbietsch993 Someone also mentioned they could arrange or come with him if he needed medical appointments... it sounded like it was done to be a support to him.
Scott Adams was not so dumb and not racist. He just knew what was good for him.
Shake down?
They owe him money. First, he asks for it without making it public.
They refuse? Now, he made it public!
That's literally it! That's no shakedown. He's taking the necessary steps for justice!
Fr they act like this is a get out of jail free card 😂 thats how it goes. “You owe me money and if I don’t get my money i will go public” 😂
This is so easy to disprove it is comical. People magazine have a story today.
You're right, it's not a shakedown, it's extortion.
The family is worth more than him. They didn't need his money. Clearly, Michael needs theirs.
@@babybison2881 If they didn't need it, then why did they lie to a kid about adoption, put him under conservatorship, and profited of his "life-story". Each family member, including the siblings, got a cut of that paycheck made from his existence and they cut him out?
@@donovan2723 are you aware of the Touhy's finances and business ventures?
Michael Oher needs their money. Not the other way around. Don't you find it odd that he's going public with this the same time he released his new book?
This wreaks of a last ditch effort for one last big payday. My guess is he's gone through that NFL money. He's been retired since 2016. Most guys go broke within 5 years.
They knew what they were doing when they had him sign papers NOT adopting Michael like they said they were, but taking control of his future earnings
He must be Heartbroken finding this out now.... A SHAMEFUL BETRAYAL !
That is quite easy to disprove given accounting records. When in the movie was he formally adopted?
From page 168 of Michael Oher's 2011 memoir:
"Leigh Anne and Sean had already assumed responsibility for me as guardians, which allowed them to sign my school permission slips and take me to medical appointments. This last step was the one that would make everything binding.
It kind of felt like a formality, as I'd been a part of the family for more than a year at that point. Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my "legal conservators." They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as "adoptive parents," but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account. Honestly, I didn't care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren't legally what we already knew was real: We were a family."
The movie/book deal was less then 0.5% of their net-worth, the Touhys sold parts of their fast food business for $220million dollars, the book deal was less than $1million dollars. And they never took a penny or enforced the conservatorship from his career. I think the Touhys genuinely cared for Michael, its sad it has come to this.
@@michaelschaefer1904 what does the movie have to do with this? but since you brought it up. the movie implied that he was adopted. the family let everyone think he was adopted and made no effort to correct anyone (ex interviews). stop with the babe in the woods routine
So your implying that this guy is really this dumb?!
Stop it. What’s a shameful betrayal is what Michael is doing to them!
Heard it all my life
No good deed goes unpunished
He shouldn't half to ask, they should of gotten out of the conservative ship a long time ago. They knew what they were doing.
they maybe got 20 0000 forthe right to the story not worth 15 millons they never took advantage of this conservative ship... reason i know... because he did not even know they hade this conservative ship... they where worth 100 miillions they dont need this pity money... they gave him the opportunity to live in there house without them he will have not been a NFL football player
@@Nico-lm5tl He knew..he wrote about it in his book in 2011
They probably just forgot about it.
1. I thought the movie was his life story, but after watching it I realized it was her’s.
2. When this movie came out I told my wife that his silence about it said a lot.
3. I wish I could see the Powerball numbers 🎉 like I saw this coming. 😂😂
He wasn’t silent about it. He always said he didn’t like how he was portrayed in the movie. It’s a movie not a doc. Like the Crown is based on actual events but that doesn’t mean the show is correct in the dialogue and in chain of events or how the events happened
@@zengergazette9738 Thanks for repeating my point!
@@CS-qc7nphe didn't. He pointed out the fact that your second point was incorrect.
@@BreakingNVain 💩
It was all about a white savoir but that was a lie
Oher needs money now and is looking to cash in ! The Touhy's took him in and helped him get into college and ultimately into the NFL. I think what Oher is doing is pretty crappy. No good deed goes unpunished.
The Tuhoys: (sign a multi million dollar movie deal selling his story rights and profit and giving Michael zero)
Michael: Hey I’d like some of the money I never got for the movies that made hundreds of millions.
The Tuhoys: OMG THIS IS A SHAKEDOWN
Exactly
They never made millions from the movie
@@kennytesta9312 Mr. Tuhoy claimed they only made $14K each from the book, nothing from the movie. After that the biological son is interviewed on television and states he "only got between $60K - $70K" from the movie royalties. Even the family's own story is not matching up. I guess they did not talk first to get their story (lies) straight.
Multi-million? In what world do you live in? In La La Land?
Btw, it is also their life-story. Oher's character was one of the prime characters in the story, not the only character.
It just comes down to one person - an ungrateful greedy man past his prime.
@@randys6220exactly lol
His own book contradicts his entire narrative.
What would THEY have to gain from any of this they’re extremely wealthy people
Status.. Clout.. Event bookings..so much can be gained from a situation like this... Rich ppl always want more
What rich person have you ever met that was like, nah, I'm good, we don't want more easy money?
@@road2exotic570 Oher benefited from them giving him a home and guiding him through the recruiting process. He gained WAAAAAY more from the family then they did from him.
The coveted "white savior" status
@@jammzy2959 you’re a sick individual if you think these people opened their homes to a then NOBODY. This family bent over backwards to provide this kid with the upbringing and support that he would have never of had before. He should be thanking god everyday that they helped him as much as they did.
Here's the name of the sequel: Blindsided 😂
They keep skipping over the most important point. Under Tennessee law were they able to adopt someone at the age of 18?
Yep. Emily D Baker, a TN lawyer, talks about it on her channel
Yes you can adopt an adult but they refused!Money grab nonthing else!
From Kirsten Fiscus
Nashville Tennessean
Published 8/15/23
Some info about adoption in Tenn.
Can an 18-year-old be adopted in Tennessee?
Oher was 18 at the time the conservatorship paperwork was signed tying him to the Tuohy family.
An 18-year-old, though technically considered an adult under state law, can be adopted at that age.
To satisfy state law, "only the sworn, written consent of the person sought to be adopted shall be required and no order of reference or any home studies need be issued."
This means no home study is required and the process only requires the written consent of the adoptee.
Perhaps becoming an heir of an incredibly wealthy family would be a more candid reason that Oher was not adopted
You can’t force ppl to adopt someone. And this news story says the parents were correct under Tennessee law.
The Tuohys are probably glad they didn't adopt him now.
Ironically, we were all "blindsided"
Oher is a disappointment to me.
There you go, you should love, care for and adopt a cat or a dog. They will never get greedy, or stab you in the back for money. And always be glad to see you no matter what.
If that families worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and why were they having him sign a conservatorship!?🧐 somethings wrong about that!
For his own good . He's probably broke now and wasted all his money on weed .
@@Sjwolosz321 for his own good at 18 years old, he wasn’t impaired there was nothing saying that he couldn’t handle his own business! He just wants what’s rite!
@@Sjwolosz321you must be the husband
Net worth of over $22 million, and you’re suing the family that took you in and helped you get there?! Sounds about par for the course in this era. 😂 I don’t feel sorry for him!!!
You know... millionaires needed to take a kid off the street so they could rip him off in the future. Please.
@@emgee2267 He's made millions and lives in a mansion..Sounds like he's doing fine.
So what? No one deserves to be in a conservatorship
@@jessigirlrae1688 Yeah, the only people who deserve to be in a conservatorship are the ones that signed the paperwork to be in one. Oh wait....
@@jackwhite6629 this makes no sense. He was 18, and if you actually watch lawyers who talk about this they tricked him and instead of a 3rd party explaining his rights it was their family friend lawyer. So a mistake at 18 means you can sign away your life? Are you psychotic?
It's sad all the way around. Whichever side is lying, it turns a heartwarming story into a nightmare.
Just look at who actually still has all the $$$ ... there's your answer.
If the movie wasnt true then it(the movie) turned a nightmare into a heartwarming story.
@@faithhouse6111 I don't think Oher would have wanted to be adopted by them if it was a nightmare situation. The fact that this was not kept private is as ridiculous as when Kaepernick recently publicly criticized his adopted parents for not wanting him to look like a thug.
@@SunofTruth For one, he was never adopted. For two. I'm not saying that Oher knowingly walked into a nightmare situation. Its like a marriage. No one goes in expecting a horrible situation, obviously. We are investigating what the situation actually entailed, not whether or not Oher went in hoping for the best.
@@marmac7619
Money they worked for you mean? They took 0$ from him when he was in the NFL! Stop it.
Look at facts not how you feel.
Oher is lying and proved it by writing about the conservatorship in his 2011 book.
The movie was clearly full of bs, but it never showed that they adopted him.
adopt didnt adopt they clearly took care of him and to me to not adopt him and still take care of him for me speaks to there genuiness
EXACTLY
It was never meant to be taken seriously as a football movie. The purpose was to promote adoption from Foster Care. His real Coach was only an extra in the film. The coach in the movie was a fictitious character.
Sad to see him go against this family that took him in and helped him from his crack head mom. No good deed goes unpunished
Simply untrue. Actually read the complaint. It's messed up. Emily D Baker goes over the whole thing. They could've legally adopted him, but chose a conservatorship to sign all negotiation rights away with no end date. This should be illegal. It's not helping when you literally have someone sign their life over
Ungrateful 🥷🏿🐵 they should’ve let his butt on the streets
This is a case study on why reparations would be utterly pointless
This man was a year away from going to college and they came in tried to take rights over his life story like they made him. He would have made it with or without him.
... they used him.
@@marcusrex77used him for what? They were already were multi millionaires and gave this guy a home. What did they have to gain?
@@kennytesta9312that's what I was thinking too
@@kennytesta9312... they may have had money, but rich people always want more. And by using his story, the white people were able to get a movie contract. And in that contract, she gave her biological kids a percentage and a revenue stream for life... while Michael, whom they claim to love, got nothing!!!
THAT SOUNDS LIE USING SOMEONE TO ME.
@@kennytesta9312... PS: The white people LIED to an emotionally and psychologically damaged young man. And to me, lying to a kid is worse than abusing him financially.
How come none of these investigative reporters have gotten a forensic accountant to analyze this family's financials so they can just nip this in the bud already?
Thank you for giving a balanced report on this.
We cannot buy or bus or way out of this racial dilemma. These people have tried to help him and they got only grieve. Whites and blacks are too different and its neither ones fault we grow upset with each other. We cannot "save" their kids until their community attempts to raise and mentor their own children properly.
Dilbert was 100% right
So much for 'love'and 'adoption', from this family. Smh.
So, the family gave him a life worth living and now they are the villains of the story!
Reminds me of the fable of The Scorpion and the Frog.
JustJesus333 how true. This will be one for the YT reactors . The knee jerk hate against the T family is Judge jury and executioners even after family reply. First Colin K with the book and now this. :(
@@TrustJesus333they only took from him 😂 the proof is in the conservatorship. You only have people sign that if they have the inability to make financial decisions on their own. He was already 18 so he was already an adult but they manipulated him into thinking it was a strangely worded adoption so he could still be adopted after 18 which is technically not possible but they worded it like that to him. Which is believable because i myself was tricked into signing a paper after my parents passed so i gave up the right to my brother and sister. They worded it to me like i was giving permission for a family member to adopt them but it was papers that gave up all my rights to claim them as an adoptee. Its very easy to trick someone into signing a long legal document and I don’t think it should be legal either it should be thrown out. Just for simple fact that they have been misleading the entire time when they never adopted him but they lead him AND THE PUBLIC to believe they adopted him long before he was an adult when that wasn’t true.
So much for waiting for the facts to come out.
It's not a lawsuit... not yet. It is a petition. I recommend Emily D. Baker's (a lawyer) video about this where she goes through the conservatorship document and the petition. The whole thing is so strange. They claim they needed the conservatorship to get him into Ole Miss, because they couldn't adopt an 18 year old, but Tennessee state allows adoption of people over 18. The conservatorship also specifically say that Oher is not allowed to make contracts or even medical decisions about himself without the direct permission of his conservators. An adoption, which was absolutely possible, would have been much better. An adoption would have allowed Oher to become a member of the family without giving up his rights. An adopted child has the right to sign their own contracts at 18, they have medical autonomy at 18, a person under a conservatorship does not. It also says they did not have a neutral party explain to Oher what he was signing, which is normal in these situations.
Just came from her channel!
He signed his own NFL contracts.
@@sharongannon-rp1cp The Tuohys didn't care about the NFL only getting him to Ole Miss and the movie rights.
Whether or not Michael knew, didn’t know, understood, or didn’t understand, or even if the Tuohey’s prevented or permitted Michael to enter into contract with the NFL is not the issue. The conservatorship strips him of his fundamental right to make legal decisions. That shouldn’t be a legally binding contract between them anymore.
What an unappreciated man he is
How?
... They lied to him!!! They told him that he was going to be adopted!!!!!
And after they made all of that money off of him, then the white people gave that money to their white children!!!!... WHILE GIVING HIM NOTHING!!!!!
Just let him out of it. We know their not going to give him any money back .
@@swaeleetoo4042... ok, but will they honor their word and adopt him. Or at least treat him like he's family??
@@TrustJesus333... If you are going to have Jesus in your name, then you need to speak the truth. Micheal wasn't lying when the white people brought up adoption.
Tennessee law does allow adults to be adopted as long as the adoptee consents in writing. This legal correspondent is derelict.
The Touhys are glad they didn't adopt him now. What a back stabber.
As with anything on the internet folks get negative listen they sold their company for 200 million plus millions more they already had they didn’t need any money what so ever.
Michael has had his mind twisted and pushed because of money when in fact as Sean ( his brother ) said had he came to them and said I’m in need of some money my taxes are killing me ect ect they most definitely would have helped him out without a issue.
Oh really? So because Michael Oher had high taxes he wanted money from the family. 🤔
Either what they did was charitable or not?
Wait a second, this all coincides with a book he is selling. That’s interesting
Probably because he's still in the conservatorship and he doesn't have rights to his own story.... So ya .. makes sense
@@jessigirlrae1688 He's trying to sell more books.
He has a speech impediment and his English vocabulary is limited
Prior interviews of him show he used the words "You know" hundreds of times
Looks like he already spent all his money and want their money also😂
Touhys are GRIFTERS.
It’s odd, they had to sign a contract even to do a movie & its proceeds. So the question is, would it have been much better to just leave him back then where you found him, homeless & out of school on the streets if this is the result?
well if they left him alone, they would not have made any money. That is the whole purpose.
Are you saying it would have been better to leave him homeless and out of school because he is suing them?
This news clip says that Oher was an all American football player before he moved in with them. Meaning he was most likely going to get a scholarship to go to college without their help. It happens all the time. I wonder why a conservatorship was entered when he was over the age of 18 and nearly penniless. Does it not sound like they knew he would be making a substantial amount of money in the future?
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@@wraynephew6838 oh please. It just made two hundred million dollars selling their businesses.
@@michaelschaefer1904 Don't bother arguing with a basketball american.
What I do know is that in the movie they portrayed him as mentally challenged black kid who didn't know a thing about football when Touhy family met him. Their failure to correct that already made me dislike this white savior family.
P.S. Leave Sandra Bullock alone. This has nothing to do with her and she is dealing with a lot.
Why is she on here trying to back these people up, knowing that they made a lot of money off of his likeness instead of him. If they love them so much why didn't they adopt him. They don't want him to have their resources.
He knew in 2011 lol he wrote a book
Check his net worth. 23 millon is hos networth.
So what! He wasn't paid for his life story and the rest were! He has always been unhappy with the film and his portrayal since the start!
@@jordanhawkins5749every single person in the family, including michael, got $100,000 for the movie. How much more should he get for their story? He's the only person involved in this story?
This makes me sad 😢 Very sad !!!
This is what you get when you try to help these people, stabbed in the back. Michael Oher's net worth is somewhere around $22 million. He wouldn't have had any of that if it weren't for the Tuohy family. He would have been broke and probably in prison.
So why didn't they adopt? Or stop the conservatorship? Watch the lawyer Emily D Baker. She's a TN lawyer and breaks it down. They had other avenues to do this right. You must not know rich people. They used him and bought him like a prized horse. He could've been adopted, but a conservatorship? That's meant for the extremely disabled?
My husband calls it the bear claw effect.
I guess he burned through all his NFL money. What a surprise. He and Kap ought to start a band. The Ungrateful Orphans.
So then why is he still in a conservatorship. He has no rights to his own story. Educate yourself. That's messed up no matter what. It's also 100% legal to adopt adults in TN. They had him sign away all negotiation rights at 18 years old and he didn't even get a 3rd party to help him understand because they used a "family friend" lawyer. He's not a prized pony. In your 30s you shouldn't still be owned by someone who took you in briefly at 18
@@jessigirlrae1688 blah blah blah. How old is that movie? Now he wants to say something? He drew the line at 20 years of silence before he said anything? It’s only a problem now because he’s broke 🤷♂️
@@Scott-oo2cz blah blah blah? Ok, nevermind. No clear rational thoughts here. Logic would fly right by anyway. Good luck.
@@jessigirlrae1688 but Michael oher use the word "conservatorship" in his book he made in 2011, you don't use a word without knowing the meaning of it, so he was suppose to have an idea what the word conservatorship means, I said at first I was just going to let things play out because I don't want to cast any judgement on him but the more I dig into this the more it continues to not make sense.
Glad the atty gave an unbiased opinion in this case.
Maybe had he played his cards right, he may have gotten millions in a will the family would leave him along with their other two children but instead he is causing a rift that will never be repaired..
Maybe if he played his cards right? Do you think it's acceptable to have an 18 year old kid sign over ALL CONTRACT negotiations rights in perpetuity to a rich family???? Like a prized pony???? You realize he's STILL IN A CONSERVATORSHIP in his 30s!
Getting an inheritance … that ship has long passed. I imagine the possible inheritance is why he was not originally adopted 😢
If u feel like he is ur kid bless him with some money that he feels he is owed and tell him this money means nothing compared to our love for u. Sorry why is it they themselves didnt end the Cship? Feels akward
He made millions in the NFL that they didn't get a cut from..he shouldn't need the money unless he blew it all and he would of likely never gotten the opportunity to play pro ball if it wasn't for them
we need a Blind Side part 2
with will smith
Book comes out and this comes out…. Seems like he knew what he was doing
He's not the only one that knew what he was doing. They all knew what they were doing. It worked out until it didn't. We are all just spectators in their drama.
guy spent millions of dollars as a nfl player, got broke, and not wants money from them.
You could say he was blindsided.........😏
Part of the reason he hated the movie, along with inaccuratecies, his team mates and opponents used it to tease and harrass him and he hated the movie more. Teasing him about his white family, the story, his real family and it really bothered him. They saw it bothered him and opponents used it to throw him off his game. Imo he grew to hate being teased. It seemed like it was the worst in Baltimore and it drove a wedge between him and the family.
That’s sad that his teammates were so racist :(
Shake down or getting what was owed!? You can adopt over 18...
You are legally an adult when you are 18. To me it doesn't make sense to adopt an adult.
You only get a conservatorship for a 17-year-old if they are getting ready to come into a large sum of money
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@@harlowjademermaid1882 it wasn’t a question it was a statement and 100% correct
Conservatorships are also used when a person is may be dying and they have no one to look after them, but the only reason why you would need a conservatorship for a child is if that child was either deathly sick with no family or was going to come into a sum of money Why did they choose conservatorship over adoption easy because in a conservatorship, you get reimbursed for any expenses you may have incurred while in the conservatorship and adoptive parents, don’t also because he would turn 18 soon and they would not see one cent of his money, so yeah
@@christophermccutcheonichib4256Incorrect
Tennessee law allows for you to adopt an adult just so you know
Translation: Oher gave them the chance to right the wrongs they did to him privately, and pay him his fair share from the windfall created by HIS story, and they refused. They deserve to be publicly shamed and ordered to pay him his due.
How in the world is it only his story? And, from what I read, they made $500,000 off of that movie. Each person in the family including Michael himself got 100,000 of the $500,000. How much more could he want?
@@BreakingNVain nobody was gonna read a book or watch a movie about one more egotistical, self-centered wealthy family going to lunch and buying another boat. What made the story was the angle of a talented but disadvantaged young Black athlete BEING ADOPTED BY THE RICH REDNECKS, and BECAUSE LEEANN TAUGHT HIM FOOTBALL, that young man going on to win a Superbowl.
Well, precious little of that story was true. Michael was already a highly recruited, All American athlete, and was already attending the private school the Tuoys' kids went to. He was not the illiterate, wallflower portrayed in the book written by Sean Tuoy's close friend since kindergarten, and the movie based on that book.
The adoption that was a lie was the center of the entire story. The Tuoys, especially Leeann, have made that their entire identity, and the springboard to selling books and holding speaking engagements they've been making bank and fluffing their egos on ever since. And again, it was a boldfaced LIE.
An adoption, which was possible, would have entitled Michael to family assets and privileges. But instead, they tricked a teenager into giving them entitlement to HIS assets, the polar opposite of the carefully curated public image they created and milked.
Because of their consistent willingness to LIE, LIE, LIE SHAMELESSLY, I'ma need proof of their claims about the amount and distribution of funds made possible ONLY by the use of Michael's story.
I believe the Tuohy's need to own it and I think they should face the consequences!
Imagine having hundreds of millions of dollars, then you take in a homeless kid with mental problems and give him a better life, then later he tells the press youve been stealing from him lol.
Mental problems? Kids and adults are hospitalized even when it is unmerited
This makes me so sick
Moral of the story:
Never bring 'em home with ya.
They may have already had money to begin with but they sure well did not have fame - that they got with Michael Oher.
😮😮😮 Wow if you help someone. You don't do it for the money. You do it for love and helping that person. God will take control and be faithful to those that are honest.
they dont need his money they worth 100 millions at least they maybe received 20 000 for the story at best... its not worth 15 millions is suing.... my guess is he dont do money from football anymore he dont want to work a regular job... so he try to extort them... its realy that simple
that is it!! there is a book coming out, perfect timing!
15 million would have been fair. Anywhere close to that. The book and the movie, I'm sure they made millions. The movie never said he was taken in his senior year and he was already an all American football player. Misleading beyond words.
15 million... in what world? Back on Nov 8th, the Tuohys provided the court with a whole paper-trail of evidence PROVING that they never made anywhere near 1 million. The evidence shows that Michael Oher was paid $138,000.... just like each of the other members of the family. He was sent his equal share in TEN checks over the years. He LIED in his August petition when he stated twice that he was paid nothing. How can you still defend this POS?
I think this guy Oher is full of it
Such a loving family.
It actually is.
there are 3 factors working simultaneously against Oher, his memoir that states in his own words that he knew he was under conservatorship (as a shield to protect him from his cocaine addicted mother, his 11 siblings and his father that he does not know from coming to sue him), 2- why at the age of 37 yo to read the court documents? why you wait so long? 3- Oher was present with the attorney with the twoys that under conservatorship he was able to play football under the Tennessee law and it was spelled out in court documents that he SIGNED. This is the critical part is that he signed the papers and if you know the law whatever you sign you understood what you are doing, except if you're a woman claiming under duress from signing a pre-nup which is all BS but that's for another time.
I never liked the way he was portrayed in that bunk movie 🎬
His life he got no money
Since 1972 TN law allowed adult adoptions at 18+ yrs old, so why is Laura saying that's probably true what Toughy fam said he was too old. Either she didn't do her homework or Washington Law Review i lying????
He has a mother. No need to adopt him.
@@sharongannon-rp1cp He had a woman who birthed him, but was not performing motherly duties. IMO, they included her in the petition, so she couldn't be in on his future financial benefits they had planned to reap from him. Furthermore, the media & Toughy Attys playing w/ words. He's not suing them for $$ as in a lawsuit which they keep saying, but to cancel the Conservership. The $$ mentioned in the petition is a Conserv requiring acctg annually which Toughy's never submitted??? The Judge signed off & the Court should be investigated just from this requirement alone not performed. I also hope NCAA re-investigate the shenanigans these folk pulled to get him to Ole Miss unneccessarily so, because his talent would've gotten him in being a top recruit most likely nationwide and particularly in his division area.
Snakes with media propaganda filled with snakes.
They behaved like parents while they were just like football agents.
Don’t know about this one. It really sounds very fishy. Like why all of sudden now. How did he not know for some odd 18 years. Why just 15 million. I mean dude played in the nfl and made millions, won a superbowl ring. It sort of sounds like a shakedown, but going to have to wait to see how this plays out.
Hope i'm wrong but would be willing to bet he has blown through his NFL $. The timing is suspicious. Not defending the Tuohys either as I have always found them self promoting and annoying. I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the middle
Black greed knows no bounds. It causes most to start hallucinating and creating their own false reality where they are entitled to whatever somebody else has.
@@ScoutsHonorBBuh. What? He's trying to get out of a conservatorship where he STILL IS in his 30s! Black greed? I'm white and it's CLEAR that this family had him sign over all negotiation rights in perpetuity!!! To this day he is still under the conservatorship! Do you understand that's meant for heavily disabled people? Not fully grown adults. Also, they couldve adopted him. Why didn't they? Because RICH GREED made him a prized pony and took his rights away. Read the complaint. He didn't even get a 3rd party to explain what he was signing. It was their family friend. That is some GREED. I worked with rich people. They live to nickel and dime. This was just ONE of their money making plans, but also, their prized pony. Gave them a name. Why is he still in it if it's some good deed? Why didn't they end it?
You were an all American football player with poor grades. You were not going anywhere. Unless you were a walk-on for the pro's.
Sad because they're
Exposed?????
Pay that Man
Shysters
Omg - Americans have scarry laws and legal trici🫣👀
On the movie is clear that he was over the age of adoption, and they accepted responsibilities (legal, insurance, etc) to help him.
I think is a pitty what is happening, but I recall reading last year that he was in financial difficulties after his divorce, so maybe he is being misguided by people that believes that this is good promotion on his book.
Dirt is never good marketing.
Sure it is, the vibrant community LOVES Kaepernick, and they love Meghan Markle, and they loved Jussie Smollett until he was busted. And as you can see in this comment section, they love Oher's BS allegations here.
In TN you can adopt someone that is 18 and over. Look it up yourself.
Emily D Baker is a lawyer in TN and talks about this on her channel. There IS adult adoption in TN
Only he wasn’t, lol. Do some research. Adult adoption is legal in TN and is easier than child adoption, as it wouldn’t require consent from Oher’s biological parents. The Tuohys lied.
@@Cagebreaker Lied about what?
Why made all that money on movie? The movie was 40k only?
Made $200million before Oher even slept on their couch. But, A-HA!!!! they got royalties from the movie!!!!! lol yeah. They may have gotten 100k total, if that. As for the conservatorship, Oher's mother was in each and every court proceedings with the Tuohys. But folks, "he didn't know" it wasn't an adoption. He only found out RIGHT BEFORE HE IS RELEASING A NEW BOOK. How odd the timing.
Thank you! Great comment. Well said.
I haven't confirmed it to be true, but I've read that he had a book come out in 2011 that mentions the conservatorship..
He blew all his NFL money and now he wants them to pay?
Bad investigation by Garrett… the whole point is how much money did they make and she completely glossed over that… get better Garrett