Oher has claimed in Tennessee court that Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy lied about adopting him.
and the rest of their family in relation to Oher. The former Ole Miss and Baltimore Ravens/Carolina Panthers standout also wants all documents and communication on their contractural agreements regarding the film, and receipts for payments regarding books Leigh Ann and Sean have written.
The request comes just days after Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, co-founders and co-CEOs of Alcon Entertainment, issued"The film rights to Michael Lewis's book, and the associated rights contracts were negotiated by Twentieth Century Fox and inherited by Alcon when the film was put in turnaround.
"As a result, the notion that the Tuohys were paid millions of dollars by Alcon to the detriment of Michael Oher is false," the statement continued."In fact, Alcon has paid approximately $767,000 to the talent agency that represents the Tuohy family and Michael Oher . We anticipate that the Tuohy family and Michael Oher will receive additional profits as audiences continue to enjoy this true story in the years to come.
The subpoenas also come a week after Oher filed a request to the courts for 19 years worth of accounting from the Tuohy family, claiming that Leigh Anne and Sean used him for their business and marketing ventures.into making them his conservators less than three months after he turned 18 in 2004. He alleged they told him there was no consequential difference between being adopted and entering into a conservatorship, giving them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
Oher claimed he only learned in February that the documents he was asked to sign by the Tuohys, under the belief that it was part of the"adoption process," were actually conservatorship papers that would strip away his legal rights, the petition says.for the past 19 years from the use of his name, image, and likeness, and “never permitted [the Tuohys] to use his name, likeness, and image in any way.
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