Justin Baldoni Opposes Blake Lively's $8 Million Legal Fee Request
TMZ • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Justin Baldoni and his legal team are contesting Blake Lively's demand for over $8 million in legal fees related to their "It Ends With Us" dispute, arguing the amount is excessively inflated and lacks credible justification.
- Baldoni's attorneys claim Lively's fee request includes costs unrelated to the defamation lawsuit, such as fees for investigating her own liability and motions previously denied for fee recovery, and they are asking the judge to deny or significantly reduce the fee award.
- A source close to Lively counters that the law allows recovery of fees for the "successful defense of the litigation" as a whole, not just the defamation claim, and notes that the cases were consolidated by the judge, supporting their position.
- The legal fee dispute follows a judge's dismissal of Baldoni's $400 million defamation suit and a prior settlement between the two parties on remaining claims, avoiding a trial on breach of contract and retaliation allegations.
