re: Michael Oher alleges his adoption was a lie, family took all the film proceeds

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Was probably busy focusing on his football career and now has had time to realize how much money he missed out on

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If the allegations are true, then seems like his agent failed big time. How did they not notice that he wasn't getting royalty checks from the movie and bring it to his attention that something was off, especially considering how big the movie was?

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While the deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the petition alleges, a separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox Studios the life rights to his story "without any payment whatsoever." The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him.

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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.

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Sounds like Debra might be the real villain here.

Also he claims that he didn't know until this year that he wasn't adopted.

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Oher eventually hired a lawyer who helped him uncover the details surrounding the movie deal and his legal connection to the people he believed were his adoptive parents. His lawyer unearthed the conservatorship document in February, and Oher came to the painful realization that the Tuohys had not adopted him.

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she was cute back in the day

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Yeah, she was:

IF he got nothing from that movie, then that is a crock.

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apparently, even though he is the subject, he is not entitled to any money from it.
unless he actively participates in it in some form (had he wrote the book, gave input, worked with filming, casting, etc.)

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I guess I took for granted that he had a big part in his story being told correctly. But maybe not, especially since they portrayed him as a bumbling idiot who had to be taught how to play football from an 8 year old.

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I'm wondering if maybe he just recently found out how much the Tuhoys got for it. And it rubbed him the wrong way that not only did they screw him out of the money, but then kept it hush for all these years that they were still making bank on the movie.

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This is probably part of it. He was probably too focused on making it in the NFL to care at the time. But let's say if it accidentally came out years later at family Thanksgiving that literally everyone got paid from the movie except Michael, then he would definitely have grievances.

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Saban was in the final year of his contract at MSU. He also had a frosty relationship with school president Peter McPherson. And he knew a good bit about the LSU job because his offensive coordinator, Morris Watts, had just left DiNardo's staff a year earlier.

Two days later, Dean got a call from a man named Sean Tuohy, a New Orleans native who played basketball at Ole Miss.

Tuohy just happened to co-own three Taco Bell restaurants in Memphis, Tenn., with a man named Jimmy Sexton, a sports agent. Sexton just happened to be Nick Saban's representative.

"(Tuohy) asked me, `Is it OK if Jimmy calls?' " Dean said. "I said yeah, because we weren't any closer to getting anyone else."

Five minutes later, Sexton called.

Saturday morning -- the day after LSU upset Arkansas -- Dean, Emmert, Board member Charles Weems III and Richard Gill, then the president of the Tiger Athletic Foundation, flew up to Sexton's house in Memphis, where they met with Saban.

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86 that, looks like tuohy was the middle man in saban going to LSU.

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Finally, ask yourself, what are the chances Oher makes it out of high school, into college, and into the NFL and $30M in earnings, if he doesn't get brought into the Touhy family?

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The dude was coached by Hugh Freeze in high school. He was already highly recruited. He easily could have went to a JC at the least.

You don't find it fishy in the least bit that this well off family takes in a 6'5 300+ pound kid that is already highly recruited by colleges. They manage to convince him to go their almost mater. They lie about legally adopting him. And all while he's still in college, they begin shopping his story around to movie companies.

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Doesn’t surprise me. Most families like that come off to me as weird

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Never trust a Southern woman with too much makeup and jewelry...she'll rob you blind while preaching the Gospel.

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I knew those people that brought a homeless black kid into their home were racists looking for money.

Obvious fortune telling white supremacist money grubbers.

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They have plenty of their own money.

I think they originally legit wanted to help the kid. Rich peoples LOVE making public displays of helping the poors.

But it appears somewher along the way, something went WAY off the rails.

The Tuohy's here likely had an ulterior motive in not adopting him. At the time, his future NFL success was not guaranteed. Tuohy, at the time, was worth more than the $30M Oher would eventually earn. Shitty or not, its not that hard to assume he was likely making a conscious effort to exclude Oher from his birth children's future family business inheritance, not necessarily steal any potential future movie royalties.

He has since sold his fast food holdings for $213M. I assume, if legally adopted, Oher would have had the same financial rights to that money as the Tuohy's birth children?

I have no idea if the Tuohys are decent people or the devil incarnate, and have no idea what exactly went into an adoption vs conservatorship decision at the time but I would have hated to have been put in that position.