I’m doubting that teams/agents check for this stuff. Probably a one in a million type situation.
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Even then, you can probably find plenty of stories of otherwise savvy people who got ripped off because they trusted the wrong people.
It'll be interesting to see what the legal proceedings turn up with. If he truly hasn't gotten paid for the movie he should win a nice judgment.
That article is pretty sparse on details. ESPN has a better explanation of what's going on.
www.espn.com
Basically Oher says he suspected something but let it be while he was in the NFL making his own money. Then he retired and started doing the legwork.
'Blind Side' subject Oher alleges Tuohys made millions off lie
In a 14-page court petition, the former NFL star alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, instead tricking him into signing a document that gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
Basically Oher says he suspected something but let it be while he was in the NFL making his own money. Then he retired and started doing the legwork.
Maybe he will be owning a couple Taco Bell’s when it’s all done.
Sounds like Oher didn't understand he was never officially adopted until earlier this year. At the time the movie was made, even Oher thought he was adopted. I could see Oher signing a document when he was in high school without understanding what he was signing. He just recently found out the details of that document
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I don’t remember exactly. It just made me uncomfortable and it definitely seemed like they were taking advantage of him a bit. It was more white savior than the movie portrayed. And they definitely had ulterior motives to get him to go to Mississippi.
Like I said, I don’t doubt that they mostly had the right intentions. But it doesn’t shock me that Michael Oher has complicated feelings. And I’d be pissed if he didn’t make money off of that movie.
It's pretty crazy to me that this has taken so many years to come out. Not that I don't believe Oher, but just that there have been a lot of people involved along the way who could have realized that something was off (agents, financial managers, friends/family, reporters, the movie production group, Michael Lewis) or who should have been providing some assistance to make sure that Oher had the resources to advocate for himself (Ole Miss and the NFL).
I read the book before the movie came out and it left enough of an impression that I didn’t want to see the movie. And that’s the exact kind movie I tend to like.
That article is pretty sparse on details. ESPN has a better explanation of what's going on.
'Blind Side' subject Oher alleges Tuohys made millions off lie
In a 14-page court petition, the former NFL star alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, instead tricking him into signing a document that gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
Basically Oher says he suspected something but let it be while he was in the NFL making his own money. Then he retired and started doing the legwork.
"Oher was a rising high school senior when he signed the conservatorship papers, and he has written that the Tuohys told him that there was essentially no difference between adoption and conservatorship. "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," Oher wrote in his 2011 best-selling memoir "I Beat the Odds."
"The deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency, the petition says. But Oher's agent, who would receive movie contract and payment notices, is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition, the petition alleges. Branan did not return a call to her law office on Monday."
It’s not super surprising though. Everyone was able to get what they wanted from him.
We like a white savior.
If what he's alleging is true they're pretty evil. Mostly referring to them getting him to sign a conservatorship, instead of adoption papers, so they could make money off him indefinitely without having to share a dime.
Seems like you would of realized over the years you aren't getting your share from a movie that made so much money.
It turns out that, actually, a cloud is just a cloud. No silver linings except on the big screen.
I never saw the movie as didn't like the concocted "white savior" angle. Threat from the blind side was actually the Tuohy's legal team.
I never saw the movie as didn't like the concocted "white savior" angle. Threat from the blind side was actually the Tuohy's legal team.
So he's at fault for assuming that his "loving adoptive parents" were not screwing him to the wall?