Former NFL star Michael Oher, subject of the book and movie"The Blind Side," alleges that the couple who took him in as a teenager misled him into believing they were adopting him — and instead placed him in a conservatorship, according to a court filing Monday.
The Tuohys negotiated a deal with 20th Century Fox that left Oher without any payment for the rights to his name, likeness and life story while the Tuohy family received a contract price of $225,000 in addition to 2.5% of the film’s net proceeds, the petition states. According to the petition, Oher does not recall signing the agreement for the rights to his life story. The document has a signature that appears to be his, but"nobody ever presented this document to him with any explanation."
The families of classmates often let Oher, who fell through the cracks of a"broken social system," stay in their homes during his time, the petition said. Oher only learned in February that documents he was asked to sign by the Tuohys, under the belief that it was part of the"adoption process," were actually conservatorship papers that would strip away his legal rights, the petition said.
The conservatorship was granted until Oher reached the age of 25 or until the court terminated the order, but the arrangement was never terminated, Oher's petition said.
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