Michael Oher received $138,000 in profits from “The Blind Side” – with him even receiving a check in April of this year.
The retired NFL player, 37, accused his adoptive parents of overcharging him with royalties from a Hollywood movie about his life in August.
But in a new court filing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy included evidence of 10 separate payments totaling $138,311 from them to Oher between June 2007 and April 2023, according to ESPN.
“By agreement between family members including Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, their children SJ and Collins and Michael Oher, the proceeds of the book and film will be split five ways,” according to a statement accompanying the accounting document filed by the Tuohys’ lawyers.
Oher was taken in as a teenager and raised like a son by the Tuohy family, who eventually helped broker his offer to enter the NFL.
During his career he earned around $34 million, according to sources.
Attorney documents for Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy filed in a Tennessee court on Wednesday reveal 10 separate payments totaling $138,311.01 were made by the couple to Michael Oher. Getty Images
However, Oher claims the Tuohys have “collectively received millions of dollars and Michael received nothing for his rights” for “the movie “The Blind Side” starring Sandra Bullock, who won an Oscar for her role.
In their legal filing, the Tuohy family reiterated what they had previously said – that Oher received the same cut of the proceeds from “The Blindside” as Sean, Leigh Anne and their two children.
Their argument has long been that the film did not make them much money. The filing also noted how the couple had “spent tens of thousands of dollars of their own money to support Mr. Oher during his high school and college years.”
Oher has accused her adoptive parents of overburdening her with royalties from a Hollywood film about her life, starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron.Ralph Nelson
Also included in the new filing by the Tuohys are copies of tax forms showing the end of the deal — with payments of more than $432,000 by Twentieth Century Fox, Alcon Film Fund and Left Tackle Pictures between 2007 and 2021.
It also includes a list that allegedly shows payments made by the Tuohys to Oher, as well as deposits the couple made to a bank account in the name of one of Oher’s children.
The order requiring an accounting notes that Oher has until Nov. 28 to file any objections to the document.
Oher has finished conservatorship. Getty Images
In her August petition filed in Shelby County, Tenn., Oher’s probate court alleges Tuohys cheated her out of paying her dues from “The Blind Side” and claims she only learned earlier this year that she was under a conservatorship as opposed to being adopted.
He also claimed the couple had used the arrangement to keep millions in movies from him.
The Tuohy family vehemently denied the allegations. Their lawyers said the couple referred to Oher as their son “in an everyday sense” and that they never intended the reference to have legal implications.
The Tuohys insisted that Oher receive an equal cut of the proceeds from “The Blindside” as Sean, Leigh Anne and their two children.WireImage
Since the petition was filed, Oher’s conservatorship has been terminated. It was previously reported that Oher could end the conservatorship any time he wanted after turning 18.
Oher played left tackle at Ole Miss, which is Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s alma mater.
A first-round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, Oher had an eight-year NFL career with the Ravens, Titans and Panthers.
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