<P> In 2008, Gaye's estate earned $3.5 million (US $3,978,207 in 2017 dollars). As a result, Gaye took 13th place in "Top - Earning Dead Celebrities" in Forbes magazine . </P> <P> On March 11, 2015, Gaye's family was awarded $7.4 million in damages following a decision by an eight - member jury in Los Angeles that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had breached copyright by incorporating part of Gaye's song "Got to Give It Up" into their hit "Blurred Lines". In January 2016, the Gaye family requested a California judge give $2.66 million in attorneys' fees and $777,000 in legal expenses . </P> <P> There have been several attempts to adapt Gaye's life story into a feature film . In February 2006, it was reported that Jesse L. Martin was to portray Gaye in a biopic titled Sexual Healing, named after Gaye's 1982 song of the same name . The film was to have been directed by Lauren Goodman and produced by James Gandolfini and Alexandra Ryan . The film was to depict the final three years of Gaye's life . Years later, other producers such as Jean - Luc Van Damme, Frederick Bestall and Jimmy De Brabant, came aboard and Goodman was replaced by Julien Temple . Lenny Kravitz was almost slated to playing Gaye . The script was to be written by Matthew Broughton . The film was to have been distributed by Focus Features and released on April 1, 2014, the thirtieth anniversary of Gaye's death . This never came to fruition and it was announced that Focus Features no longer has involvement with the Gaye biopic as of June 2013 . </P> <P> In June 2008, it was announced that F. Gary Gray was going to direct a biopic titled Marvin . The script was to be written by C. Gaby Mitchell and the film was to be produced by David Foster and Duncan McGillivray and co-produced by Ryan Heppe . According to Gray, the film would cover Gaye's entire life, from his emergence at Motown through his defiance of Berry Gordy to record What's Going On and on up to his death . </P>

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