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Pregnant Jenna Dewan Seeking Millions From Ex Channing Tatum’s Magic Mike Income
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan's divorcement continues to turn contentious.
Though the Step Up alums—who stock 10-year-old daughter Everly—broke up almost six years ago, their divorcement proceedings continue, with Channing's continued net from the Magic Mike franchise astatine the halfway of the dispute. Last month, Jenna filed a petition seeking a information of Channing's full profits from the films and which accused her ex of hiding portion of his earnings.
However, successful caller tribunal documents obtained by E! News, Channing—who is engaged to Zoë Kravitz—says Jenna's accusations are false.
"I person ne'er denied Petitioner her stock of immoderate assemblage assets oregon income," helium said successful a May 2 filing. "I person ever agreed for Petitioner to person an involvement successful the Magic Mike intellectual spot and related entities."
Channing continued, "During our marriage, Petitioner had adjacent entree to our concern managers and fiscal records. We communicated astir our enactment and assorted projects connected a regular basis. Since our separation, Petitioner has had implicit entree to each our fiscal records for each activities during our matrimony and since separation."
The documents besides reason that Jenna's petition are intended to further impede their divorce.
"It is designed to hold the processing of the lawsuit and summation the disbursal of litigation and volition not, successful immoderate way, beforehand 'early solution by settlement,' the documents argue, "in a lawsuit wherever 5 abstracted mediation sessions person resulted successful Petitioner's simply ignoring a tendered projected judgment for months."
E! News has reached retired to some Channing and Jenna's ineligible teams for remark and has not yet heard back.
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In Jenna's April 10 filing her lawyers argued "intellectual property" from Channing's Magic Mike appearances has grown into a "multi-million taste phenomenon," and, due to the fact that the archetypal movie and its archetypal sequel came retired during their marriage, it should beryllium considered "community successful character."
The three-part movie series—loosely based connected Channing's ain experiences arsenic a antheral stripper successful Tampa—earned astir $167.2 cardinal globally aft the archetypal 2012 film, with its astir caller and last installment, 2023's Magic Mike's Last Dance garnered $57.1 million, per The Hollywood Reporter.
At the clip of Jenna's April filing, Channing's ineligible squad initially responded successful a same-day filing of their own. As seen successful documents obtained by NBC News, Channing's ineligible squad claimed that Jenna—who shares lad Callum, 4, with Steve Kazee and is presently large with their 2nd baby—has "been progressive successful each aspects of assemblage investments, opportunities and transactions" concerning the Magic Mike franchise.
Amid the April filings were besides a database of preliminary witnesses for their proceedings submitted by some Jenna and Channing, which includes Magic Mike directors Steven Soderbergh and Greg Jacobs, the franchise's producers Nick Wechsler and Peter Kiernan and screenwriter Reid Carolin, arsenic seen successful documents obtained by E! News.
For much connected Jenna and Channing's years-long split, support reading.
(NBC News and E! News are some portion of NBCUniversal.)
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Legally Single But...Divorce Dance Continues
While the 2 were declared legally separated successful 2019 aft 8 years of marriage, the Step Up costars stay successful quality implicit fiscal matters.
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Magic Mike Money?
In April 2024, Jenna filed documents, obtained by E! News, requesting that she and Tatum "testify regarding each issues related to the parties’ matrimony including concern and fiscal activities."
She besides submitted a preliminary grounds database that requests idiosyncratic and firm taxation returns and different fiscal documents, including those regarding profits from the Magic Mike franchise.
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Magic Dispute
The Rookie histrion alleges successful the lawsuit that they acquired the Magic Mike intelligence spot together. She accuses Tatum of putting its net into "an irrevocable trust" and transferred licensing rights to a 3rd enactment without telling her, People reported, citing tribunal documents.
Tatum disputed her assertion successful his ain filing, obtained by E! News.
"The Magic Mike intelligence spot was created during matrimony and assorted entities that subordinate to the intelligence spot were created during matrimony and aft separation," the documents state. "[Tatum] has expended extended efforts since separation towards the enhancement of the Magic Mike intelligence spot and related entities, which [he] contends springiness emergence to his abstracted spot involvement therein."
The court, his lawyer notes successful the filing, "will request to allocate the assemblage involvement and [Tatum's] abstracted spot involvement successful the intelligence spot and related entities successful information of [his] post-separation efforts."
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Magic Witnesses
Dewan included successful her preliminary witnesser database respective radical who worked connected the Magic Mike trilogy with Tatum, including manager Steven Soderbergh and producers Nick Wechsler and Peter Kiernan.
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Steve Kazee to Enter the Chat
In his ain preliminary witnesser list, filed successful tribunal 1 time aft Dewan submitted her documents and besides obtained by E! News, Tatum included his ex-wife's fiancé Steve Kazee, with whom she is expecting her 3rd child.
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