{"id":654095,"date":"2026-05-20T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654095\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:05:10","slug":"jada-pinkett-smith-scores-5-figure-sum-from-will-smiths-pal-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654095\/","title":{"rendered":"Jada Pinkett Smith Scores 5-Figure Sum From Will Smith\u2019s Pal in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Jada Pinkett Smith<br \/>\n                          Scores 5-Figure Sum From Will Smith\u2019s Pal<br \/>\n                          In Battle Over Alleged Threats<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              May 20, 2026<br \/>\n                            12:00 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260519_37c96f47a11b4328992dd722e4949b32\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:ef0495fa-527d-4b82-ab8c-f937ba7076c3\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/37c96f47a11b4328992dd722e4949b32_md.jpg\" alt=\"jada pinkett smith Bilaal Salaam 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jada-pinkett-smith\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jada Pinkett Smith<\/a> scored a 5-figure sum for her attorney&#8217;s fees in the legal battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/will-smith\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a>\u2019s alleged ex-pal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bilaal-salaam\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bilaal Salaam<\/a> &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge awarded the &#8220;Red Table Talk&#8221; host $32,836 in legal fees, although Jada requested $49,181 before the judge reduced the amount.<\/p>\n<p>As we previously reported, Bilaal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/02\/jada-pinkett-smith-reportedly-threatened-will-smith-friend\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sued<\/a> Jada, claiming he suffered emotional distress due to alleged threats from Jada and her associates. He claims to have been friends with Will for decades and says he was called up by the Smith team to help with damage control after the actor slapped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/chris-rock\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Rock<\/a> at the 2022 Oscars.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20231011_03a16b3d5b9e444dbdc473f5e81e498d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:ef0495fa-527d-4b82-ab8c-f937ba7076c3\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/03a16b3d5b9e444dbdc473f5e81e498d_md.png\" alt=\"jada and will smith\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bilaal claimed he declined and says Jada and her associates started making threats against him after they discovered he was working on a memoir, in which he planned to talk about his experience with the family.<\/p>\n<p>Jada denied all claims of wrongdoing or that Bilaal suffered any damages. She asked for him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/23\/jada-pinkett-smith-asks-judge-to-force-bilaal-salaam-to-pay-fees\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay<\/a> her legal fees after convincing the judge to dismiss some of Bilaal\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jada Pinkett Smith Scores 5-Figure Sum From Will Smith\u2019s Pal In Battle Over Alleged Threats Published May 20,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-654095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}