Jada Pinkett Smith Asks Court To Make Will Smith's Former Friend Pay Her $49,000 Legal Bills

Jada Pinkett Smith is asking a judge to make Bilaal Salaam screen nan $49,000 successful ineligible fees she racked up fighting claims he made successful a December lawsuit.

According to a mobility revenge April 20 and obtained by The Times, Pinkett Smith is asking that Salaam salary $49,181.23, consisting of “reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred” successful relationship pinch Pinkett Smith’s successful typical mobility to onslaught Salaam’s complaint, “plus further fees and costs associated pinch this motion.”

Salaam — Will Smith’s erstwhile champion friend of 40 years who besides goes by Brother Bilaal — revenge a suit against nan “Bad Moms” character successful December, alleging affectional distress and seeking $3 cardinal successful damages.

Salaam claimed that successful September 2021, he attended a backstage day statement for Will Smith astatine nan Regency Calabasas Commons. According to his lawsuit, he was successful nan lobby of nan movie theatre erstwhile Pinkett Smith approached him pinch astir 7 members of her entourage and threatened him. Salaam’s suit claims that Pinkett Smith told him he would “end up missing aliases drawback a bullet” if he kept “telling her individual business.” She besides allegedly pressured him to motion a non-disclosure agreement.

In November 2023, Salaam appeared connected nan “Unwine With Tasha K” podcast and alleged that he walked into Duane Martin’s dressing room and saw Will Smith having a intersexual brushwood pinch nan “All of Us” actor. He besides made claims astir Pinkett Smith’s intersexual habits.

Pinkett Smith swiftly responded during an quality connected “The Breakfast Club” and said that Salaam started nan rumors arsenic portion of a broader “money shakedown” and that his claims were “ridiculous and nonsense.”

“It’s not existent and we’re going to return attraction of it,” she said. “We’re astir to return ineligible action.”

Salaam hit Pinkett Smith to nan courthouse and sued her successful December, but Pinkett Smith asked nan judge to flip nan lawsuit successful February.

According to nan mobility revenge this week, nan erstwhile “Red Table Talk” big argues Salaam should salary her hefty ineligible bills because she “prevailed connected her anti-SLAPP motion” and nan tribunal struck each allegations relating to media statements “that formed nan ground for Plaintiff’s 3 causes of action, arsenic good arsenic further allegations regarding a cease-and-desist letter.”