Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan clash over how to split his Magic Mike earnings

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Former couple Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan are presently clashing over how to split the earnings from one of many actor’s largest film franchises, Magic Mike.

According to court docket paperwork obtained by People, Dewan is arguing that she ought to obtain among the earnings that Tatum gained from the franchise, as they had been nonetheless married when he filmed Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL. The former couple tied the knot in 2009, earlier than asserting their split in 2018. They additionally share a now 10-year-old daughter, Everly.

In the divorce proceedings, Dewan’s legal professionals argued that Tatum’s motion pictures for the franchise had been his “big break”, whereas alleging that Magic Mike – and the movie’s “extremely lucrative” offshoots – had been “developed and co-financed by Channing during marriage with community effort and marital funds”.

Dewan additionally alleged that Tatum and his authorized staff “created a complex web of LLCs, holding companies, and partnerships” to “dilute and conceal the value of, and licensing income therefrom, the community property share of Magic Mike intellectual property”.

The dancer’s authorized staff is asking for a separate trial to focus on how to divide belongings within the divorce, because the legal professionals are pushing to show that Tatum allegedly “colluded” to maintain the Magic Mike revenue from Dewan.

However, the Dear John star disputed this argument within the divorce submitting, claiming that “he never denied Petitioner of her share of the community assets or income”.

Tatum’s authorized staff famous that they want to schedule a trial with no “last minute” postponement and that the actor has “exhausted all efforts in an attempt to settle this matter without litigation”.

After starring within the first Magic Mike film, which got here out in 2012, Tatum went on to seem in 2015’s Magic Mike XXL and final 12 months’s Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Tatum’s authorized staff argued that whereas his work with the enterprise started when he was nonetheless married to Dewan, he “continued to create and develop [it] since separation”.

The legal professionals added that Tatum has “expended extensive efforts since separation towards the enhancement of the Magic Mike intellectual property and related entities, which [Tatum] contends give rise to his separate property interest therein”.

The Independent has contacted representatives for Tatum and Dewan for remark.

The former couple have since moved on to separate relationships, as Tatum is presently engaged to Zoë Kravitz. Meanwhile, Dewan has been courting Steve Kazee since October 2018, six months after she and Tatum introduced their split. ​​Dewan and Kazee share a four-year-old son, Callum, and they’re presently anticipating one other child.

Dewan and Tatum have each been open in regards to the split since asserting their divorce in 2018. In her 2019 memoir, Gracefully You: How to Live Your Best Life Everyday, Dewan wrote in regards to the motive why the wedding got here to an finish.

“I’d come to realise the dynamic I was in wasn’t serving me nor was it serving my daughter,” Dewan wrote, as reported by People. “First and foremost I had to accept the realisation this isn’t working and had moved into hurting.”

During an interview with Vanity Fair, Tatum defined that whereas he and Dewan “fought for it for a really long time”, they knew they “had sort of grown apart”.

“I think we told ourselves a story when we were young, and we just kept telling ourselves that story, no matter how blatantly life was telling us that we were so different,” he mentioned. “But when you’re actually parents, you really understand differences between the two of you. Because it is screaming at you all day long. How you parent differently, how you look at the world, how you go through the world.”

He then acknowledged the divorce was “probably exactly what [he] needed”, because it allowed him to concentrate on himself and prioritise his daughter Everly.

“I just dropped everything and just focused on her. And it was truly the best possible thing that I ever could have done,” he added. “Because in the alone time that I have with just me and her, we’ve become best friends.”