Michael Oher alleged in a legal filing earlier this month that the Tuohy family 'received millions' for the film, while he received nothing
Sean Tuohy, Michael Oher, and Leigh Anne Tuohy.The production company that financially backed The Blind Side is speaking out and defending the Oscar-winning film against “many mischaracterizations and uninformed opinions” in the last 10 days, since the film’s subject Michael Oher alleged the Tuohy family lied to him about being adopted.
The production company said the film rights to Michael Lewis’s 2006 book about Oher, and the associated rights contracts were negotiated by Twentieth Century Fox and inherited by Alcon when the film was greenlit. A source close to the film had previously refuted Oher’s claim, telling PEOPLE the Tuohys have received approximately $700,000 total in rights, payments and profits, which was intended to be divided between the family members — Sean, Leigh Anne, their two biological children and Oher.Whether the money was paid out to Oher is at the center of his legal petition filed earlier this month.
, Leigh Anne Tuohy has charged $30,000 to $50,000 per appearance as a motivational speaker, per available online estimates. Thealso reports that the Tuohys’ Making It Happen foundation, which pledges to help children who “fall through the cracks of society,” has brought in more than $1 million since 2010, including some donations from Sean Tuohy’s businesses, according to its financial disclosures.
“In the story of The Blind Side we saw the better angels of human nature,” Johnson and Kosove’s statement read. “We saw it in the Tuohy’s wonderful acts of kindness toward Michael Oher. However, more importantly, we saw it in the extraordinary courage that Michael Oher demonstrated in accepting the Tuohys’ generosity not as a handout, or as his saviors, but as a way through which he could improve his own life.
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