Michael Oher’s conservatorship by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy is officially TERMINATED – as judge claims she ‘cannot believe’ couple were allowed to control finances of ex-NFL star who inspired movie ‘The Blind Side’
A Tennessee judge said Friday she is ending a conservatorship agreement between former NFL player Michael Oher and a Memphis couple who took him in when he was in high school.
Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes said she is terminating the agreement reached in 2004 that allowed Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy to control Oher’s finances.
Oher signed the agreement when he was 18 and living with the couple when he was recruited by colleges as a star football player in high school.
Gomes also said she is not dismissing the case. Oher has asked the Tuohys to provide a financial accounting of the money that may have come to them as part of the deal, claiming they used his name, image and likeness to enrich themselves and lied to him that the deal meant the Tuohys adopted him. .
Gomes said she was disturbed that such an agreement was ever reached. She said that in her 43-year career, she had never seen a conservatorship agreement with someone who was not disabled.
Michael Oher played in the NFL for the Carolina Panthers, Tennessee Titans and Baltimore Ravens
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy denied using a legal agreement between them and former NFL offensive lineman Oher to get rich by using his name and lying about their attempt to adopt him
“I can’t believe it worked,” she said.
Oher and Tuohys listened in via video conference call, but said nothing.