Jenna Dewan Says Channing Tatum Hid Magic Mike Salary Details: Lawyer

Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum‘s legal professionals have been present for the duration of a court listening to on Friday, April 12, with regards to the former couple’s divorce settlement.

Lawyers for Dewan, 43, claimed on Friday that Tatum, also 43, allegedly hid aspects about his Magic Mike earnings and argued that the actress is entitled to a slice of the earnings considering the fact that they were married when the movie was built, in accordance to court docket files acquired by Us Weekly.

“The Magic Mike mental property and all the proceeds thereon is the elephant in the home,” Dewan’s law firm, Samantha Spector, told the judge on Friday. “We have, for the past pair of many years, been trying to meaningfully resolve this scenario, but each time we do, we get trapped on that challenge with Magic Mike. We are working with a likely billion-greenback asset.”

Tatum starred and made Magic Mike in 2012 ahead of the property spawned two additional sequels and a reside stage demonstrate in Las Vegas and London. Dewan’s attorney argued on Friday that her consumer need to obtain fair and equal payment given that they ended up married when the movie was at first formulated and made, which Tatum paid out for  with their shared “marital resources.”

Spector did verify that Dewan experienced gained “some” income from Tatum but statements it doesn’t precisely account for the entire good results of Magic Mike. In accordance to Dewan’s camp, the funds are below Tatum’s comprehensive regulate in “a advanced world-wide-web of LLCs, keeping corporations, and partnerships,” which Dewan thinks were produced to deliberately “dilute and conceal the benefit of, and licensing profits to, the local community house Magic Mike intellectual residence and derivative belongings.”.

Tatum has not publicly resolved Dewan’s court promises. Us has achieved out for comment.

News broke earlier this month that Tatum and Dewan, who were being married in between 2009 and 2019, were going to court to iron out the details of their divorce settlement. According to court files, the now-exes as very well as Dewan’s fiancé, Steve Kazee, would testify more than their economical conditions.

The docs also pointed out Dewan’s Magic Mike considerations, in which she alleged that Tatum refused to similarly break up the franchise’s intellectual assets. In his possess courtroom filing, Tatum denied the statements.

“[Channing] has expended extensive efforts since separation towards the enhancement of the Magic Mike intellectual property and relevant entities, which Respondent contends give increase to his different assets fascination therein,” the files read through. “The Court docket will need to allocate the local community curiosity and Respondent’s different assets curiosity in the mental residence and linked entities in thought of Respondent’s publish-separation attempts.”

Tatum and Dewan, who achieved even though filming 2006’s Step Up, wed 3 yrs afterwards. Just after a decade of relationship and the birth of now-10-year-outdated daughter Everly, the now-exes confirmed their separation in 2018 and have been declared lawfully one in 2019. They share 50/50 custody of Everly and have labored to have an amicable coparenting connection.

“It’s often a journey,” Dewan informed Romper in a January job interview. “It in no way finishes. You just understand as you go and get greater at specific points, and for me, Evie will often be my prime priority. I just continually set her initially. That’s how I can handle all difficult things.”

Dewan has given that moved on with Kazee, 48, with whom she shares son Callum and they are currently anticipating their 2nd infant collectively. Tatum, meanwhile, discovered appreciate with actress Zoë Kravitz and they got engaged in 2023.