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Scumbag Touhy family

Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:55 am
Posted by CID 310
Heart of Dixie
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:55 am
Is anyone surprised they turned out to be grifters. Stands to reason they are tight with Freeze.
Posted by Triple13
Ferriday
Member since Aug 2023
504 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:56 am to
I'm a little surprised. I don't see how you could do this to someone you supposedly cared about. I'm sure there are two sides, but this seems pretty suspect.
Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
41986 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:57 am to
Do you think your opinion on the matter is too good for the other thread?
Posted by Harry Morgan
Member since Sep 2019
9193 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:04 am to
Riveting. Will save to read again.
Posted by koreandawg
South Korea
Member since Sep 2015
9092 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:05 am to
quote:


Is anyone surprised they turned out to be grifters. Stands to reason they are tight with Freeze.


Based on the Touhy response, and just what a lawyer friend said, I kind of think the truth is somwhere in the middle of this thing.

He's worth several hundred million. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to try to make a few hundred thousand off of Oher. Sean says they couldn't adopt him because he was 18 and since he was an Ole Miss booster, Michael couldn't go to Ole Miss and live with them without the conservatorship. This rift between them all seems to have started with how he was portrayed in the movie and has gotten worse over the last three years.
Posted by Dear Diary
USA
Member since Jul 2023
1110 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:11 am to
All of your moms goes to colleges
Posted by Hot_in_the_box
Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadi
Member since Jun 2023
1960 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:18 am to
quote:

anyone surprised they turned out to be grifters. Stands to reason they are tight with Freeze.

They were rich before they rescued Orr. Remember they owned all the Taco Bell’s in Memphis.
Posted by Hardluck Harry
Member since Jul 2023
617 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 12:49 pm to
That poor victim of evil ol' Whitey.

Michael Oher was a grown arse man playing io the NFL when that movie was made. He had to sign on the dotted line at least 100 times.

He had PLENTY OF MONEY to hire competent legal counsel. Don't hate on the Touhy family because he was too lazy, stupid, or tight-fisted to hire counsel.
Posted by thunderbird1100
GSU Eagles fan
Member since Oct 2007
68642 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 1:05 pm to
Why is this all being brought up like 14 years after the movie came out? I mean its not like the movie came out yesterday.

Did Michael burn through all his NFL money or something?
Posted by timdonaghyswhistle
Member since Jul 2018
16385 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 3:02 pm to
Oher should just make his own movie.

If the scummy details are even close to what we are all picturing, it should be a blockbuster.
Posted by Gray Tiger
Prairieville, LA
Member since Jan 2004
36512 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 3:06 pm to
Interesting questions that need answering:

1. Did the Thouys still have a conservatorship on Oher when the book came out? What was Oher paid out of that?

2. Did the Touhys still have a converatorship on Oher when the movie came out? What was Oher paid out of that?

3.Did the Touhys still have a conservatorship on Oher when he signed to play professional football? What percentage, if any, of his professional football salary did the Thouys collect for the conservatorship?

4. Why is (was?) such a conservatorship still in effect?

Why to questions 1,2 & 3?

What percentage of the earnings, if anything, was Oher ever paid by the Touhys?



Posted by LARancher1991
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2015
561 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:15 pm to
White people man
Posted by mckibaj
Member since Nov 2010
7729 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:22 pm to
Michael Oher accused of $15M Shakedown

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Michael Oher, the ex-NFL star whose story inspired the Oscar-winning film “The Blind Side,” allegedly asked his adoptive family for $15 million not to go public with claims they swindled him, according to the family’s attorney.


quote:

“Over the years, the Tuohys have given Mr. Oher an equal cut of every penny received from ‘The Blind Side,’” attorney Marty Singer said.

“Even recently, when Mr. Oher started to threaten them about what he would do unless they paid him an eight-figure windfall, and, as part of that shakedown effort refused to cash the small profit checks from the Tuohys, they still deposited Mr. Oher’s equal share into a trust account they set up for his son.”


quote:

Singer alleged Oher had been dropped as a client by other lawyers, but “has finally found a willing enabler and filed this ludicrous lawsuit as a cynical attempt to drum up attention in the middle of his latest book tour.”
This post was edited on 8/15/23 at 4:24 pm
Posted by Che Boludo
Member since May 2009
18280 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:49 pm to
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Scumbag Touhy family

Seems a bad take given the circumstances.

The trial will reveal it, unless they settle.

Honestly, it seems like sour grapes and desperation. I find it hard to believe he did not know about his adoption status until this year.

Genuinely, it seems sad all around. But, if anything, it just proves they're really family afterall. Money matters can bring out the petty in every family group.

If Bullock gives up her Oscar, she's dead to me (as if she cares). But, it's too bad because her, Alyssa Milano, Kate Beckinsale, and Marisa Tomei have always been my starlet love interests since childhood/youth.





P.S.: I may have a girl next door brunette type
Posted by PineyWoodsHog
Texas
Member since Sep 2021
1600 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:56 pm to
He said, they said at this point. This is the kind of case where it will all come to light in the end so I'll reserve judgment until then.
Posted by SeaCay
Odessa, FL
Member since Mar 2012
1730 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 6:38 pm to
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 8:20 pm to
They cut their biological kids into the royalties, and didnt give Oher anything.

That's pretty much all you need to know about these people and their "adoption" of Michael Oher. It was a calculated business move from the very start.

frick these fake-arse clowns.
This post was edited on 8/15/23 at 8:21 pm
Posted by namvet6566
Member since Oct 2012
6845 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 9:09 pm to

This kid is a Liar
They have a Trust set up for him

Why would someone with 200Million, deprive him of $14,000
Posted by CaptainBrannigan
Good Ole Rocky Top Tennessee
Member since Jan 2010
21644 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:21 pm to
Yellow could not tell about this family from the movie? They made it where the kid could not read and then some white woman taught him football. That was not suspect to yall?
Posted by Shamoan
Member since Feb 2019
9389 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:38 pm to
They don’t look great here, but neither does Oher. I think the lesson here is to avoid ole miss at all costs until you run out of options.
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