Blake Lively files to receive $8m in legal fees from Justin Baldoni and his studio | Blake Lively

Blake Lively has paid $8m in money it says came from a fight with Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios.

The figure is to cover Lively’s expenses from January to June 2025 in the fight against her director and co-star in the 2024 film It Ends With Us, as well as the damages request that was pending during Lively v Baldoni. stability in May 2026.

In January 2025, Baldoni offered $400m countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for fraud, defamation and invasion of privacy after they first made it. complaint about being raped last month. Baldoni’s ugly suit was removed in June 2025.

After Lively and Baldoni stability their trial in early May, a federal judge he ruled this June that Lively is “entitled to financial compensation” from fighting Baldoni’s lawsuit.

Lively has also disclosed $8,035,040 in cash and cash equivalents she earned fighting Baldoni’s suit.

“He respectfully asks the Court to award him $7,495,526.87 in damages and $539,514.01 in costs,” said a June 30 letter from law enforcement.

On 15 pages memorandum of lawLively’s lawyers accuse Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios of “world-shattering tactics designed to destroy Lively’s fortune”.

Lively’s lawyers Gottlieb and Hudson also explained that Baldoni and his team “a daily media campaign to promote their false accusations, call for obvious and unnecessary, obstruction of the findings and their associates, and pressure Lively to obtain regular relief from the Court for aggressive action”.

The memorandum also describes Baldoni’s objections as an attempt to defame him. “This egregious abuse of the law did not need to prevail in court,” it says. “His goal was to retaliate against Lively by calling her a liar, intimidating witnesses and the media, and dissuading others from speaking out.”

“Thanks to this landmark decision, those who consider using a crime as a tool of intimidation will be informed that there are consequences for doing so,” Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, Lively’s lawyers, said in a statement to the Guardian.

“The merits of this decision lie in the precedent it creates, the accountability it provides, and the protection it provides to those who may one day face similar retaliation for speaking the truth.”

Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios have until July 13 to decide whether to agree to pay Lively’s $8m settlement or reject the demand. The Guardian has reached out to Baldoni’s lawyers for comment.