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Dude, give it up. Mike got paid an equal amount for the movie. That was his whole complaint. He has nothing to complain about now. There is no indication that they took advantage of him in any way. The conservatorship was just an administrative process. They never claimed any of his NFL money. How did the conservatorship financially benefit the Touhy's? It didn't. Mike isn't even claiming that they did, other than the movie money. It's a dead issue now.
Just give it up. The tuohys are thieves
Because they are white, correct?
However, they did house him and laid alot of his expenses while he lived with them.
That small investment brought pretty good returns. They had to jazz it up a bit. Like claiming he was adopted. But it sold very very well.
Because they stole money. Them being white has nothing to do with this. Weird flex to make this about race.
Bingo about the race.
White people are not victims. Stop being one.
Like they knew someone was going to do a movie about them and Mike was going to be an NFL superstar. Devious....
Here again it's not a binary choice. I do think they probably just wanted to help the kid out in the beginning.
But at some point they saw dollar signs. Both things can be true.
How do you explain the lies about adopting Oher? I can pretty simply. It made for a better story that they knew would sell.
It’s really weird some people want to call Oher a liar based on unverified claims from the Tuohys while completely ignoring the extensively documented history of the Tuohys lies
Some additional context:
1- The Tuohys are worth like $100m
2- The total payout to the Tuohys for the movie was like $700k. They paid taxes, divided it in 4 (1/4 each for the main characters in the movie) and paid MO his 1/4th cut.
3- They never got any of his football money.
They divided it 5 ways. The family of 4 got 4/5 and Oher got 1/5.
They made a lot more money off the story outside of the movie proceeds. Including lucrative speaking fees to tell their motivational story. Where they adopted Oher. Only one problem. That was a lie.
I think the payments have been verified. Mike lied. It's very simple. The only lies you see are whether or not Mike was legally adopted or in a conservatorship. It really doesn't matter. Its terminology. They took Mike in quite literally off the streets (long before anyone knew money was to be made), got him into a good school, and maintained a close relationship with Mike throughout his NFL career. The only issue in contention was the money made off the movie. That has been cleared up. Nobody made much money from the movie.
What part was a lie? Did they not take Mike into their home, get him into a good school, and treat him like family? Adopted or conservatorship....it doesn't matter. None of this was an issue till almost 20 years later when Mike decided he wanted more money. If the Touhys were such money-grubbers wouldn't they have taken some of his $35M that he made in the NFL? They were still his conservators throughout his NFL career and legally would have had direct control over his contracts. They didn't do that. They let Mike make his money on his own. No good deed goes unpunished.
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Gee w-h-i-z......
Good grief......
How about this instead????????
FREAKING GO DAWGS!!!! <---- now THAT is something right there that really INTERESTS ME!!!!!!!!
The movie was not the only contention. They’ve been using his likeness for years to make money from their charity. Also the payments aren’t verified from the reporting I’ve seen. Just that they have submitted documents to the court. We have no idea where they sent the money which was only 8k a year btw