Michael Oher Challenged Tuohy Conservatorship

In August 2023, former American NFL player Michael Oher, whose life inspired the 2009 film The Blind Side, sued Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, the couple he had believed adopted him. Oher alleged that they tricked him into signing a conservatorship agreement instead of adoption papers, giving them authority to negotiate business deals in his name. He claimed a film deal paid the Tuohys and their two children millions in royalties while he received nothing, although the family and the film's producers disputed those figures. In 2023, a Tennessee judge ended the conservatorship, which the Tuohys said they were "happy to end," and ordered them to remove claims from their website and speaking materials that they had adopted Oher.

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