Tuohys Paid Michael Oher $138,000 for ‘The Blind Aspect’ Regardless of Claims

The Tuohy household filed new court docket paperwork revealing that Michael Oher was paid greater than $138,000 for The Blind Aspect regardless of his previous claims that he obtained nothing from the movie.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy paid Oher $138,311.01 over 10 installments beginning in 2007, in response to the court docket docs filed on Wednesday, November 8, and obtained by Individuals. In accordance with the submitting, the ultimate installment of $8,480.10 was paid in April of this yr.

“After a ten % fee was paid, one-third of this sum was given to Michael Oher by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy,” learn the paperwork. “Checks for 2021 and 2022 haven’t cleared the Tuohys’ financial institution accounts.”

Oher — whose story impressed 2009’s The Blind Aspect — filed a lawsuit in August alleging that Sean and Leigh Anne by no means legally adopted him however as a substitute pressured him right into a conservatorship in 2004 that granted them authorized management over his funds. In his submitting, Oher mentioned he consented to the conservatorship “on the premise that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy household.” He went on to say that the association “in actual fact offered him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.”

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The movie, in distinction, portrayed Sean and Leigh Anne, each 63, as loving adoptive dad and mom who took Oher in after he was unsuccessfully positioned in a collection of foster houses. The film was an enormous success, finally incomes greater than $300 million on the field workplace and scoring Sandra Bullock an Oscar for her efficiency as Leigh Anne.

A part of Oher’s lawsuit claimed that the Tuohy household “negotiated a contract” on his behalf concerning proceeds from the movie, which was primarily based on Michael Lewis’ e-book of the identical identify.

“The co-conservators by no means offered [Oher] with any written documentation to indicate any earnings they derived from the film,” the swimsuit claimed. “[He] has been stored at midnight, pressured to depend on the verbal assurances from his co-conservators.”

Oher, now 37, was in search of to terminate the guardianship and earn a share of what the Tuohy household allegedly produced from the movie. His legal professionals have since issued subpoenas requesting “all paperwork and communications” concerning the film’s contracts and funds.

“I’m disheartened by the revelation shared within the lawsuit at present,” Oher mentioned in a press release after his court docket submitting made headlines. “It is a tough scenario for my household and me. I need to ask everybody to please respect our privateness at the moment. For now, I’ll let the lawsuit converse for itself and can provide no additional remark.”

Sean and Leigh Anne, in the meantime, denied Oher’s claims and alleged that Oher threatened to “plant a detrimental story about them within the press until they paid him $15 million.”

In September, Choose Kathleen Gomes dominated in a Tennessee court docket to finish the 20-year conservatorship. On the time of the ruling, Gomes said she “can’t consider” the conservatorship was ever put in place.