The Tuohy family wants the conservatorship for Michael Oher to end, their lawyers said Wednesday. Oher filed a petition against the family in court Monday.
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy want to end former NFL playerLawyer Randall Fishman said Oher mentioned the Tuohys being conservators for him three times in his 2011 book,"I Beat The Odds: From Homeless, To The Blindside." The Tuohys’ lawyers said Oher knew he had not been adopted despite the former player'sThe family intends to enter into a consent order to end the conservatorship, Fishman said.
Michael Oher, left, Collins Tuohy, second from left, and Leigh Anne Tuohy, whose lives are portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie"The Blind Side," speak with Pastor Kerry Shook, right, March 3, 2010, at Woodlands Church's Fellowship Campus in The Woodlands, Texas.Oher filed a petition in Shelby County court Monday accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers to make them his conservators instead of his adoptive parents nearly 20 years ago.
Michael Singer, another attorney who represents the Tuohys, said Tuesday Oher threatened to"plant" a negative story in the press about the family unless they paid him $15 million. Singer denied the allegations leveled against the Tuohy family in Oher’s petition to end their conservatorship, calling them"hurtful and absurd."
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