Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum in ‘Magic Mike.’ Stefanie Keenan/Getty Photos; Cowl Photos
Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum‘s attorneys have been current throughout a court docket listening to on Friday, April 12, relating to the previous couple’s divorce settlement.
Attorneys for Dewan, 43, claimed on Friday that Tatum, additionally 43, allegedly hid particulars about his Magic Mike earnings and argued that the actress is entitled to a minimize of the earnings since they have been married when the movie was made, in line with court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly.
“The Magic Mike mental property and all of the proceeds thereon is the elephant within the room,” Dewan’s lawyer, Samantha Spector, advised the decide on Friday. “Now we have, for the final couple of years, been making an attempt to meaningfully resolve this case, however each time we do, we get caught on that challenge with Magic Mike. We’re coping with a possible billion-dollar asset.”
Tatum starred and produced Magic Mike in 2012 earlier than the property spawned two further sequels and a dwell stage present in Las Vegas and London. Dewan’s lawyer argued on Friday that her consumer ought to obtain honest and equal compensation since they have been married when the movie was initially developed and produced, which Tatum paid for with their shared “marital funds.”
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Spector did affirm that Dewan had acquired “some” cash from Tatum however claims it doesn’t precisely account for the complete success of Magic Mike. In line with Dewan’s camp, the funds are underneath Tatum’s full management in “a posh internet of LLCs, holding corporations, and partnerships,” which Dewan believes have been created to deliberately “dilute and conceal the worth of, and licensing earnings to, the group property Magic Mike mental property and by-product property.”.
Channing Tatum in ‘Magic Mike.’ Cowl Photos
Tatum has not publicly addressed Dewan’s court docket claims. Us has reached out for remark.
Information broke earlier this month that Tatum and Dewan, who have been married between 2009 and 2019, have been going to court docket to iron out the small print of their divorce settlement. In line with court docket paperwork, the now-exes in addition to Dewan’s fiancé, Steve Kazee, would testify over their monetary conditions.
The docs additionally talked about Dewan’s Magic Mike issues, by which she alleged that Tatum refused to equally break up the franchise’s mental property. In his personal court docket submitting, Tatum denied the claims.
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“[Channing] has expended in depth efforts since separation in direction of the enhancement of the Magic Mike mental property and associated entities, which Respondent contends give rise to his separate property curiosity therein,” the paperwork learn. “The Courtroom might want to allocate the group curiosity and Respondent’s separate property curiosity within the mental property and associated entities in consideration of Respondent’s post-separation efforts.”
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Tatum and Dewan, who met whereas filming 2006’s Step Up, wed three years later. After a decade of marriage and the start of now-10-year-old daughter Everly, the now-exes confirmed their separation in 2018 and have been declared legally single in 2019. They share 50/50 custody of Everly and have labored to have an amicable coparenting relationship.
“It’s at all times a journey,” Dewan advised Romper in a January interview. “It by no means ends. You simply study as you go and get higher at sure issues, and for me, Evie will at all times be my prime precedence. I simply frequently put her first. That’s how I can handle all exhausting issues.”
Dewan has since moved on with Kazee, 48, with whom she shares son Callum and they’re presently anticipating their second child collectively. Tatum, in the meantime, discovered love with actress Zoë Kravitz and they acquired engaged in 2023.
