Story by Jack Bezants
Michael Oher was reportedly paid $138,000 for his rights to The Blind Side, according to a new court filing by the Tuohy family.
According to PEOPLE, court documents that were filed on Wednesday show that the retired NFL star was paid $138,311.01 in 16 instalments across 16 years, from 2007.
The former NFL player Oher filed a bombshell legal filing in August that claimed he received nothing from the film and that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy 'collectively received millions of dollars' while misrepresenting their conservatorship.
Oher's attorney has been approached for comment. The film itself grossed over $300million after it came out in 2009.
The conservatorship between Oher and the Tuohy family, struck in 2004, was ended by a judge in Tennessee at the end of September.
In Tennessee, a conservatorship removes power from a person to make decisions for themselves, and it is often used in the case of a medical condition or disability.
But Oher´s conservatorship was approved 'despite the fact that he was over 18 years old and had no diagnosed physical or psychological disabilities,' his petition said.
Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes said she was disturbed that such an agreement was ever reached. She said she had never seen in her 43-year career a conservatorship agreement reached with someone who was not disabled.
In August, Oher, 37, filed a petition in probate court accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago. Oher wanted the conservatorship to be terminated, a full accounting of the money earned off his name and story and to be paid what he is due, with interest.
He accused the couple of falsely representing themselves as his adoptive parents, saying he discovered in February the conservatorship agreed to in 2004 was not the arrangement he thought it was - and that it provided him no familial relationship to them.
Oher claims the Tuohys have kept him in the dark about financial dealings related to his name, image and likeness during the 19-year life of the agreement.
The Tuohys have called the claims they enriched themselves at his expense outlandish, hurtful and absurd and part of a 'shakedown' by Oher.
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