Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s drama with Michael Oher continues because the household is now accusing him of extortion.
In line with court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, Sean, 64, and Leigh Anne, 63, shared a collection of alleged messages from Oher, 37, calling them “thieves,” demanding they pay him $10 million in any other case he would go public with their dispute over their earnings of The Blind Facet.
“If something isn’t resolved this Friday, I’m going to go ahead and tell the world, how I was robbed by [supposed] to be parents,” Oher allegedly wrote. “That’s the deadline.”
The messages additionally allegedly confirmed that Oher gave the Tuohys his lawyer’s contact info, prompting them to achieve out in the event that they “want to negotiate.” Oher later elevated the quantity he was searching for from $10 million to $15 million after taxes. The Tuohys’ responses to Oher’s textual content messages weren’t proven within the docs.
Within the submitting, the Tuohys argue that Oher “should be denied” a brief injunction because the household are “not engaged in commercial use of” Oher’s identify. Final month, the Tuohys eliminated all point out of Oher from their web site. Per the docs, the Tuohys additionally state that Alcon Leisure, who produced The Blind Facet, offered an accounting filed in November that each the Tuohys and Oher earned $138,309 for the movie.
Us has reached out to Oher for remark.
The household’s authorized woes started in August after Oher alleged that the Tuohy household by no means adopted him regardless of how their story was advised within the 2009 Oscar-nominated movie, The Blind Facet. As a substitute, Oher claimed that earlier this 12 months he realized that Leigh Anne and Sean satisfied him to make them his conservators which might give the household authorized authority to make enterprise offers in his identify.
Oher claimed that he agreed to the conservatorship “on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family” however additional alleged that it truly “provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.”
Within the preliminary submitting, Oher alleged that the Tuohys financially profited off him and his story, because of the success of the movie. Along with searching for the termination of the conservatorship, Oher requested that the couple pay him his “fair share of profits” and “unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.”
Sean, for his half, claimed that the conservatorship was essential to ensure that Oher to attend and play soccer on the College of Mississippi, Ole Miss, the place the Tuohys each attended.
Oher later alleged that Sean and Leigh Anne “negotiated a contract” for The Blind Facet on his behalf. Nevertheless, Oher was unaware of what the deal entailed and claimed to not have signed a contract.
“The co-conservators never presented [Oher] with any written documentation to show any earnings they derived from the movie,” the paperwork learn. “[He] has been kept in the dark, forced to rely on the verbal assurances from his co-conservators.”
In September, a decide dominated that Oher’s conservatorship had come to an finish after practically twenty years.
In November, the Tuohys filed paperwork, in response to Individuals, revealing that Oher was paid greater than $138,000 for The Blind Facet with the ultimate installment of $8,480.10 being paid in April of this 12 months.