Former NFL first-round draft pick Michael Oher is finally free.
On Friday, Shelby County (Tenn.) Judge Kathleen Gomes “terminated” the conservatorship with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.
Last month, the former Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle sued the Tuohy family after they allegedly swindled him out of proceeds from the blockbuster film “The Blind Side” and said he just learned earlier this year he was under a conservatorship as opposed to having been adopted.
The retired NFL star signed an agreement in 2004 when he was 18 years old that granted the Tuohy’s control of his finances. At the time, he was living with the family and playing high school football.
“The lie of Michael’s adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher,” Oher’s suit said, per ESPN.
In his petition, Oher claimed the Tuohy family tricked him into making them his conservators, allegedly telling him there was no consequential difference between being adopted and entering into a conservatorship.
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The former Baltimore Ravens player claimed that all four members of the family were paid $225,000 for the film plus 2.5% of the film’s proceeds.
He later learned that he was the only member of the family not receiving royalty checks from the film.
The Tuohys have denied that claim and stated the four members of the Tuohy family were collectively paid approximately $767,000 in payments delivered through their talent agency for The Blind Side.
The Tuohys have called the claims they enriched themselves at his expense outlandish, hurtful, and absurd and part of a “shakedown” by Oher.
Oher was the 23rd overall pick in the 2009 draft, and he spent his first five seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, where he won a Super Bowl.
