Blake Lively Submits $8,035,040.88 Legal Bill Against Justin Baldoni

Lively's attorneys have submitted an eight-million-dollar-plus fee application against Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, citing litigation conduct they describe as deliberately designed to exhaust her resources.

Blake Lively has filed a legal fees application totaling $8,035,040.88 against Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios.
The application accuses the opposing side of 'scorched-earth litigation tactics designed to drain Lively's resources.'
The fee request was submitted as part of the ongoing civil dispute between Lively and Baldoni.
Wayfarer Studios is named alongside Baldoni as a respondent in the fee application.
The filing places a specific dollar figure on a legal battle that has drawn sustained public attention since late 2024.

Blake Lively's legal team has submitted a fee application totaling $8,035,040.88 against Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, according to a filing reported by Deadline on June 24, 2026.

The application describes the opposing side's conduct as “scorched-earth litigation tactics designed to drain Lively's resources” — language that will now sit in the court record alongside the eight-figure sum it produced.

The civil dispute between Lively and Baldoni, her co-star and director on the 2024 film adaptation of It Ends with Us, became public in late 2024 when Lively filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment and a coordinated smear campaign. Baldoni has denied the allegations and filed counterclaims.

The $8,035,040.88 figure covers Lively's attorneys' fees through the current stage of proceedings. Whether the court awards any portion of that amount remains a separate question from the underlying claims.

The irony, noted nowhere in the filing itself: the document submitted to prove the cost of the litigation runs to a number precise enough to include eighty-eight cents.