{"id":903406,"date":"2026-06-30T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903406\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:14:18","slug":"blake-lively-wants-8m-in-legal-fees-from-justin-baldoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903406\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Wants $8M In Legal Fees From Justin Baldoni"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo weeks after a federal judge ruled <\/a>Justin Baldoni<\/a> and his Wayfarer Studios have to pay Blake Lively<\/a>\u2018s legal fees for the year-long-plus court battle between the It Ends With Us<\/a> stars, the harassment and retaliation-claiming actress has handed in a bill.<\/p>\n

\n\tA bill for $8,035,040.88 to be specific. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s how much Blake Lively says it cost her to see Baldoni\u2019s $400 million defamation and extortion suit\u00a0countersuit combated and ultimately dismissed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLively respectfully requests the Court award her reasonable attorneys\u2019 fees of $7,495,526.87 and costs in the amount of $539,514.01,\u201d states a filing early this AM from the Another Simple Favor star\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, this being Lively vs. Baldoni, and with more possible damages to come, it\u2019s never just going to be about the math \u2014 even with the actress and her spouse Ryan Reynolds<\/a> having ample resources of their own and Baldoni having his studio co-founder billionaire Steve Sarowitz\u2019s debt card on hand.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Wayfarer Parties\u00a0employed scorched-earth litigation tactics designed to drain Lively\u2019s resources, including a near-daily press campaign promoting their sham lawsuit, propounding expansive and irrelevant discovery demands, obstructing discovery directed at them and affiliated third parties, and forcing Lively to seek frequent relief from the Court to reign in their abusive docket filings,\u201d declares the 15-page memorandum of law.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThanks to this landmark decision, those considering using a lawsuit as a weapon of intimidation have been put on notice that there are consequences for doing so, lead Lively lawyers Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson added to Deadline Tuesday after the documents were placed in the court docket. \u201cThe value of this ruling is in the precedent it creates, the accountability it imposes, and the protection it provides to those who may one day find themselves facing similar retaliation for speaking the truth.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBaldoni\u2019s side have until July 13 to either agree to the more than $8 million or put up a fight. Reps for the Wayfarer Studios co-founder did not respond this morning to Deadline\u2019s request for comment on Lively\u2019s math and her filings. <\/p>\n

\n\tOf note, the determination by Judge Lewis Liman came under California\u2019s relatively untested Protecting Survivors from Weaponized Defamation Lawsuits Act (aka Civil Code Section 47.1), which was introduced in 2023. Also of note, if the amount Lively is looking for seems low or low-ish to you, remember this is focused on Baldoni\u2019s countersuit \u2014 which was first filed weeks after she filed her initial sexual harassment and retaliation complaint in late 2024 against the Jane the Virgin actor and his inner circle with the California Civil Rights Department<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith just a few weeks to go before a Big Apple trial and several unsuccessful swings at a settlement, Lively and Baldoni came to a deal or sorts <\/a>in May of this year. <\/p>\n

\n\tStill unresolved issues lingered over that January 2025 countersuit by Baldoni and his Wayfarer team of Sarowitz, PR execs Melissa Nathan, Jennifer Abel, and CEO Jamey Heath, even though it was tossed out in June 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tJudge Liman gave the Bryan Freedman-led Baldoni legal team the right to file an amended complaint, but they never did. At the same time, Judge Liman also killed Baldoni\u2019s separate $250 million suit against The\u00a0New York Times, which first published news of Lively\u2019s Golden State CRD move just before Christmas 2024.<\/p>\n

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