Michael Oher received $100K in ‘Blind Side’ profits

Former NFL star Michael Oher received $100,000 from the profits of “The Blind Side” — just like every other member of the Tuohy family, lawyers for the family claim.

Lawyers for the Tuohys made the claim just days after Oher, 37, filed a petition in a Tennessee probate court seeking to end the conservatorship with the family, who he says duped him into signing over the legal use his name in business deals.

The former Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl winner alleged the Tuohys used their conservatorship to make millions in royalties from the 2009 Oscar-nominated film while he didn’t earn a cent.

Tuohy family attorneys Randy Fishman and Steven Farese Sr. rejected Oher’s claims on Wednesday, telling reporters “a pretty simple (accounting) process” will soon debunk the allegations, The Tennessean reported.

Michael Lewis, who wrote the book the blockbuster was based on, told The Washington Post that the Memphis family had not gotten rich from the movie — and that he split the $250,000 he was paid by 20th Century Fox with the family.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy said they split their half of the deal evenly between the five members of the family, including Oher.

That and the 2.5% of all future proceeds from the movie, which equate to about $500,000, have also been split between Sean, Leigh Anne, their two biological children (SJ and Collins), and Oher, they said.

“Michael got every dime, every dime he had coming,” Fishman said.

“They don’t need his money. They’ve never needed his money. Mr. Tuohy sold his company for $220 million,” Farese added.

Tuohys’ attorneys also contended that Oher was well aware he had never been adopted.

Fishman said the former football star mentioned that the couple was his conservators three times in “I Beat The Odds: From Homeless, To The Blind Side,” his 2011 memoir.

“There was one major event that happened right after I graduated high school: I became a legal member of the Tuohy family,” Oher wrote. “It felt kind of like a formality, as I’d been a part of the family for more than a year at that point.”

“Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my ‘legal conservators,’” he wrote.

“They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as ‘adoptive parents,’ but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account,” Oher added.

“Honestly, I didn’t care what it was called. I was just happy that no one could argue that we weren’t legally what we already knew was real: We were a family.”

Farese said Oher has become “more and more vocal and more and more threatening” in recent years, adding that this is “devastating for the family.”

The Tuohys have called Oher’s allegations a shameful shakedown attempt, which comes after he and the family have been estranged for a decade.

The family previously said that they set up the conservatorship to help Oher with health insurance, a driver’s license, and being admitted into college.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy didn’t simply adopt Oher because a conservatorship was the fastest way to satisfy the NCAA’s concerns that they weren’t simply steering him to Ole Miss, their alma mater, which he later attended, Fishman noted.

The Tuohys have maintained that they only have Oher’s best interest at heart, even if it means dissolving the conservatorship.

“If that’s what he wants to do is terminate it, we’re glad to do so,” Fishman said. “Matter of fact, it’s our intent to offer to enter into a consent order as it relates to the conservatorship. Then, if they have any other issues, we’ll deal with them.”