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A retired American football star whose rags-to-riches tale was adapted into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film has alleged the story is built on lies.

In the 2009 movie The Blind Side, Michael Oher, a foster child in Tennessee, is adopted by a wealthy white couple and blooms into a star college athlete.

In a court filing, Mr Oher, now 37, alleges he was never adopted and was instead tricked into a conservatorship after he turned 18. He alleges Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy made millions of dollars from his name. However, an attorney for the Tuohy family has called the claims "hurtful and absurd".

Lisa MacCarley is a conservatorship lawyer in California. She told Newsday: 鈥淚 actually went to the Tennessee files and what was interesting is that he appeared not only to attend the hearing but the judge made a finding that Michael consented to the conservatorship and that his biological parents were also notified and consented to the conservatorship鈥�unless the Tuohy鈥檚 took further action, the conservatorship appears to have been鈥�largely abandoned.鈥�

(Picture: Shows Sean Tuohy (L), Michael Oher (C) and Leigh Anne Tuohy (R). Credit: Getty Images.)

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