Michel Oher and the Tuohy family. Oherfiled a lawsuit on Monday that alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into a conservatorship and lied about his adoption status.
In a statement to ET on Tuesday, Martin Singer, the attorney for Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tells ET that the Oher's claims are «outlandish,» «hurtful,» and «absurd.»«Anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that the outlandish claims made by Michael Oher about the Tuohy family are hurtful and absurd.
The idea that the Tuohys have ever sought to profit off Mr. Oher is not only offensive, it is transparently ridiculous,» Singer says. «Through hard work and good fortune, Sean and Leigh Anne have made an extraordinary amount of money in the restaurant business.
The notion that a couple worth hundreds of millions of dollars would connive to withhold a few thousand dollars in profit participation payments from anyone – let alone from someone they loved as a son — defies belief.»In addition to denying Oher's claims, the Tuohy family alleges that Oher threatened them and said he would plant a negative story about their family in the press if they did not pay him $15 million.«In reality, the Tuohys opened their home to Mr.
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