Two weeks after a federal choose dominated Justin Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios need to pay Blake Vigorous‘s authorized charges for the year-long-plus courtroom battle between the It Ends With Us stars, the harassment and retaliation-claiming actress has handed in a invoice.
A invoice for $8,035,040.88 to be particular.
That’s how a lot Blake Vigorous says it value her to see Baldoni’s $400 million defamation and extortion swimsuit countersuit combated and in the end dismissed.
“Vigorous respectfully requests the Court docket award her affordable attorneys’ charges of $7,495,526.87 and prices within the quantity of $539,514.01,” states a submitting early this AM from the One other Easy Favor star’s attorneys.
In fact, this being Vigorous vs. Baldoni, and with extra doable damages to return, it’s by no means simply going to be concerning the math — even with the actress and her partner Ryan Reynolds having ample sources of their very own and Baldoni having his studio co-founder billionaire Steve Sarowitz’s debt card readily available.
“The Wayfarer Events employed scorched-earth litigation ways designed to empty Vigorous’s sources, together with a near-daily press marketing campaign selling their sham lawsuit, propounding expansive and irrelevant discovery calls for, obstructing discovery directed at them and affiliated third events, and forcing Vigorous to hunt frequent aid from the Court docket to reign of their abusive docket filings,” declares the 15-page memorandum of regulation.
“Because of this landmark choice, these contemplating utilizing a lawsuit as a weapon of intimidation have been placed on discover that there are penalties for doing so, lead Vigorous attorneys Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson added to Deadline Tuesday after the paperwork had been positioned within the courtroom docket. “The worth of this ruling is within the precedent it creates, the accountability it imposes, and the safety it gives to those that might at some point discover themselves dealing with related retaliation for talking the reality.”
Baldoni’s facet have till July 13 to both comply with the greater than $8 million or put up a struggle. Reps for the Wayfarer Studios co-founder didn’t reply this morning to Deadline’s request for touch upon Vigorous’s math and her filings.
Of be aware, the dedication by Choose Lewis Liman got here beneath California’s comparatively untested Defending Survivors from Weaponized Defamation Lawsuits Act (aka Civil Code Part 47.1), which was launched in 2023. Additionally of be aware, if the quantity Vigorous is on the lookout for appears low or low-ish to you, bear in mind that is centered on Baldoni’s countersuit — which was first filed weeks after she filed her preliminary sexual harassment and retaliation criticism in late 2024 towards the Jane the Virgin actor and his interior circle with the California Civil Rights Division.
With just some weeks to go earlier than a Massive Apple trial and a number of other unsuccessful swings at a settlement, Vigorous and Baldoni got here to a deal or kinds in Could of this yr.
Nonetheless unresolved points lingered over that January 2025 countersuit by Baldoni and his Wayfarer workforce of Sarowitz, PR execs Melissa Nathan, Jennifer Abel, and CEO Jamey Heath, despite the fact that it was tossed out in June 2025.
Choose Liman gave the Bryan Freedman-led Baldoni authorized workforce the best to file an amended criticism, however they by no means did. On the identical time, Choose Liman additionally killed Baldoni’s separate $250 million swimsuit towards The New York Occasions, which first revealed information of Vigorous’s Golden State CRD transfer simply earlier than Christmas 2024.
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