{"id":734900,"date":"2026-06-30T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:40:16","slug":"blake-lively-asks-for-nearly-8m-in-attorneys-fees-court-costs-from-baldoni-and-wayfarer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734900\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Asks for Nearly $8M in Attorneys’ Fees, Court Costs From Baldoni and Wayfarer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blake Lively
\n Justin Needs to Pay me $8M, Judge!<\/p>\n

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\n June 30, 2026
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Blake Lively<\/a> wants Justin Baldoni<\/a>\u00a0and Wayfarer to be on the hook for just north of $8 million in attorneys’ fees and court costs after his defamation lawsuit against her was tossed out … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the “It Ends With Us” star requests a judge grant her $7,495,526.87 in attorneys\u2019 fees she incurred in fighting his lawsuit, plus $539,514.01 in court costs and expenses incurred while defending herself.<\/p>\n

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As we told you, Justin’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake was tossed out … and a judge recently ruled Justin would need to cover her legal bills, although Blake was turned down in her attempt to get other damages.<\/p>\n

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And, as you know, Blake’s win on the legal fees comes after she and Justin settled<\/a> their years-long legal battle in May … just before the trial was set to begin on her claims of breach of contract and retaliation.<\/p>\n

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You may recall, Blake claimed she’d lost millions as a result of an alleged smear campaign engineered by Justin and his team during the fallout from their film … and she also made claims of sexual harassment. But most of her claims were ultimately dismissed, aside from the breach of contract and retaliation.<\/p>\n

Now, the court just needs to wrap up these loose ends … and it will be interesting to see if Justin and Wayfarer end up cutting Blake a fat check.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Justin Needs to Pay me $8M, Judge! Published June 30, 2026 6:32 AM PDT Blake Lively…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-734900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734900","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=734900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}