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In the statement first issued Tuesday by attorney Martin Singer to TMZ.com and later obtained by The Associated Press, Singer said the Tuohys are heartbroken and accused Oher of threatening to plant a negative story about them unless they paid him $15 million.
Singer said the Tuohys hope Oher regrets his recent decisions and that they can reconcile.
B次元官网网址淚n the meantime, however, they will not hesitate to defend their good names, stand up to this shakedown and defeat this offensive lawsuit,B次元官网网址� the statement says.
Oher filed a a conservatorship initiated by the Tuohys in 2004 B次元官网网址� months after he turned 18.
B次元官网网址淥her discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys,B次元官网网址� according to his petition.
He moved in with the Tuohys just before his senior year of high school and later attended Sean TuohyB次元官网网址檚 alma mater, Mississippi. Oher asks for a full accounting of his assets considering his life story produced millions of dollars and he says he received nothing.
Oher, , also asks in the petition that the Tuohys be sanctioned and required to pay both compensatory and punitive damages determined by the court.
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B次元官网网址淭hey have consistently treated him like a son and one of their three children,B次元官网网址� Singer said in the statement. B次元官网网址淗is response was to threaten them, including saying that he would plant a negative story about them in the press unless they paid him $15 million.B次元官网网址�
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Singer notes evidence exists in profit participation checks and studio accounting statements for the movie that won for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy.
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Singer said in the statement that Oher has tried this B次元官网网址渟everal times beforeB次元官网网址� only to have attorneys stop representing him once they learned the truth. The statement called this a B次元官网网址渃ynical attemptB次元官网网址� as part of OherB次元官网网址檚 latest book tour.
Oher was the 23rd overall pick in the 2009 draft out of Mississippi, and he spent his first five seasons with the Baltimore Ravens where he won a Super Bowl. He played 110 games over eight NFL seasons, including 2014 when he started 11 games for the Tennessee Titans. Oher finished his career with two years in Carolina.
He last played in 2016 and was
