Keep in mind the Oscar-winning film ‘The Blind Facet’ based mostly on the lifetime of former NFL star Michael Oher? Effectively, there’s a twist within the story. Oher, who retired from soccer in 2017 after over a decade with groups like Baltimore Ravens, Tennessee Titans and the Carolina Panthers, is suing his “adoptive” mother and father Sean and Leigh Anne Touhy, claiming he was by no means adopted by them, who additionally swindled him into signing away his decision-making powers at 18.
Oher, 37, has filed a lawsuit in a Tennessee court docket in search of to finish Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s conservatorship over him. He alleged within the petition that he has by no means been adopted by the Tuohy’s and had been tricked into signing a conservatorship that saved hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from him. Oher alleged within the petition that he was unaware of the truth that he was not adopted until this February.
Within the lawsuit, Oher has sought the cash that he claims to have earned from the film ‘The Blind Facet’ and an injunction stopping Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy from utilizing his identify and likeness, reported CNN.
“Michael trusted the Tuohys and signed the place they instructed him to signal. What he signed, nevertheless, and unknown to Michael till after February 2023, weren’t adoption papers, or the equal of adoption papers,” the petition states. “As a substitute, the papers appointed Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy his conservators. The conservatorship papers had been filed by an lawyer so near the Tuohys that Oher was instructed to name her aunt,” the petition states.
“The papers requested that the conservators have complete management over Michael Oher’s capacity to barter for or enter any contract, regardless of the actual fact he was over 18 years of age and had no identified bodily or psychological disabilities,” the petition states.
Oher has alleged that the Tuohys have allowed him and the general public to imagine that they adopted Michael and have used that to achieve monetary benefits for themselves. “All monies made within the stated method ought to in all conscience and fairness be disgorged and paid over to the stated ward, Michael Oher,” the petition alleged.
It added that the Tuohys negotiated a contract of $225,000 plus 2.5 per cent of future “outlined web proceeds” for themselves and their organic youngsters, the lawsuit stated.
To the lawsuit, Sean Tuohy stated his household was devastated. “It’s upsetting to assume we might generate income off any of our youngsters. However we’re going to like Michael at 37 similar to we beloved him at 16,” Sean Tuohy instructed the US-based Each day Memphian.
