{"id":800498,"date":"2026-07-14T03:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800498\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:41:17","slug":"justin-baldoni-opposes-blake-livelys-8-million-legal-fee-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800498\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni Opposes Blake Lively’s $8 Million Legal Fee Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Baldoni to Blake Lively
\n You Don’t Deserve $8 Million From Me!!!<\/p>\n

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\n July 13, 2026
\n 6:32 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Justin Baldoni<\/a> is firing back at Blake Lively<\/a>‘s request that he pay a seven-figure sum to cover her legal bills in their “It Ends With Us” battle … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

According to court docs obtained by TMZ, Baldoni and his Wayfarer team argue the amount Lively is seeking is wildly overinflated. They claim Blake has failed to present credible evidence showing she’s entitled to the fees and are asking the judge to deny her request outright.<\/p>\n

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The motion, filed by attorney Bryan Freedman<\/a>, states … “Lively’s fee request is so over-inclusive that it sweeps in fees for researching her own liability for perjury arising from her California CRD claim and her Rule 11 motion for which the Court has already denied fees!”<\/p>\n

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In the alternative, Baldoni argues that if the judge awards fees at all, the amount should be slashed from more than $8 Million to a six-figure sum.<\/p>\n

The filing argues Lively is trying to make Baldoni pay for legal work that goes far beyond defending his defamation lawsuit, calling her request bloated and unsupported.<\/p>\n

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A source close to Blake tells TMZ \u2026 Their argument on fees only being recoverable on the \u201cdefamation claim\u201d is completely at odds with the statutory language. The statute says \u201csuccessful defense of the litigation\u201d not the \u201cclaim\u201d and they don\u2019t deal with that at all in their opposition, because they know they\u2019re wrong. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Blake source also tells us the cases were consolidated by the judge which they do not dispute.<\/p>\n

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As TMZ previously reported, Blake is seeking<\/a> more than $8 Million after a judge dismissed<\/a> Baldoni’s $400 Million defamation lawsuit and ruled she was entitled to recover attorneys’ fees tied to defeating that claim. The fee dispute comes after Blake and Justin settled<\/a> the remainder of their years-long legal battle in May, avoiding trial on her remaining breach of contract and retaliation claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni to Blake Lively You Don’t Deserve $8 Million From Me!!! Published July 13, 2026 6:32 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-800498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}