Blake Lively will receive $400,000 in legal fees from Justin Baldoni in their bitter court battle – after demanding an eye-watering $8 million following their bombshell settlement, the Daily Mail can reveal.
In a final humiliation for the actress on Wednesday, a judge in New York ruled that the actress will be awarded just 5 percent of the amount she sought to recoup for defending herself against Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit.
The judge said that the number of hours that Lively had billed for her lawyers was ‘unreasonable’ and criticized the ‘discrepancies’ in the expenses she was trying to claim.
The court ruling comes
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