Michael Oher filed a petition saying he was never adopted by the Tuohy family and that he was cheated out of money.
The movie grossed $300 million, and according to
, Oher’s petition claims the Tuohys and their children, Sean “SJ” Tuohy Jr. and Collins Tuohy were paid $225,000 each, plus an additional 2.5% of the film’s “defined net proceeds.”“Mr. Oher has actually attempted to run this play several times before” but was “stopped” after the lawyers representing him “saw the evidence and learned the truth.”
Singer’s statement also claimed that the Tuohys have made good on a pledge to divide the profits from the movie equally and that evidence is “clear” and shows that the “Tuohys have given Mr. Oher an equal cut of every penny received from” the film, all of which has apparently been “documented in profit participation checks and studio accounting statements.
“I got a call from Steven Spielberg, Harvey Weinstein. I had to give them the rights to use our name,” Tuohy says in the show. “And I said, ‘I’ll give you the name if I get to read the script and then approve or unapproved.’” “So sure enough, seven months later we get an envelope in the mail and it’s the script,” he says on the show.
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