Lively Celebrates First-Ever California Fee Award in Baldoni Defamation Case

A judge awarded Blake Lively about $363,245 in attorneys’ fees and $44,206 in costs in her defamation case against Justin Baldoni, far short of the roughly $8 million she sought; her lawyers framed the ruling as accountability for weaponized litigation and noted that time spent on media relations was not compensable under California law.