In a significant legal development, Blake Lively has received only a portion of the $8 million in attorney fees she requested while defending against Justin Baldoni's defamation lawsuit stemming from their It Ends With Us collaboration. The presiding judge issued a sharp rebuke of Lively's fee calculation methodology, characterizing her approach as a 'blunderbuss strategy' lacking precision and justification. This ruling underscores the complexities of high-profile celebrity litigation and the judiciary's scrutiny of excessive legal expense claims in defamation cases.

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