Topline
A court granted actress Blake Lively just over $400,000 in attorney’s fees and other costs following her now-settled legal battle against “It Ends With Us” director and star Justin Baldoni—but the sum is a fraction of the $8 million she asked for.
Lively had asked a court for about $8 million in attorney’s fees and costs. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Associated Press
Key Facts
U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman awarded Lively $363,245.40 in attorneys’ fees and $44,206.35 in costs on Wednesday, a sum totaling more than $407,000.
But Liman denied much of Lively’s $8 million request for attorney’s fees and costs, saying the “number of hours for which Lively seeks reimbursement is unreasonable.”
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