Ioan Gruffudd’s bitter feud with ex-wife heads to trial as he claims she pleads poverty…but splashes cash on ritzy Europe trips
Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd’s ugly feud with his ex-wife Alice Evans is headed for a knock-down, drag-out court trial that could last almost two weeks.
The warring couple faced each other on Monday at Los Angeles Superior Court where Evans, 57 – who appeared via video – wants a judge to order Gruffudd to cough up more than the $1,500 he’s paying in monthly spousal support.
Meanwhile, Gruffudd, 51, is seeking an extension of a restraining order to stop Evans from ‘stalking’ him and trashing him and his new wife, Bianca Wallace, online.
Gruffudd, who appeared in person wearing a dark blue suit and tie and a light blue dress shirt, revealed on Monday that he’s not only opposed to increasing the amount he pays his former spouse, but he wants to stop paying her altogether.
The actor – whose latest movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, has grossed more than $400 million worldwide – intends to ‘request to terminate support based on Evans’ continued violations of the restraining order,’ his attorney, Joseph Langlois, told Judge Michael Convey.
The judge scheduled a trial to be held over nine days from February 23 to March 6, 2026, when the restraining order, spousal support and other issues between the ex-pair will be resolved.
Langlois also gave notice that he will call pregnant Wallace, 33 – who was not in court on Monday – to testify about Evans’ alleged harassment of Gruffudd and her.
In the past months, Evans has filed court documents, which have been reviewed by the Daily Mail, in which she claimed poverty.
Pictured: Gruffudd (left) and Evans (right) in 2011. The pair appeared in court on Monday over nasty accusations made against one another
Pictured: Ioan Gruffudd leaving from the Monday court hearing, where he accused his ex of stalking him and his new wife
Pictured: Evans in 2015. Evans has claimed poverty and asked her ex for more monthly support
She alleged she was so broke that she had to borrow money from friends and set up a GoFundMe account that raised $18,000 in donations.
Evans said that she and her girls – Ella, 16 ,and Elsie, 12 – were recently evicted from their Los Angeles home because she couldn’t afford to pay the $6,500 per month rent.
She contended that she had to ‘burn through’ her savings to pay living expenses and legal fees.
And she insisted Gruffudd – who married Wallace in April – can afford to pay more than the $3,000 per month child support and $1,500 spousal support he now pays.
But Gruffudd has fought his ex’s cash demands and blasted Evans’ claims in his own court filing.
In the documents, he said that she ‘purposely got herself evicted….intentionally ceasing paying rent and instead taking the children on a vacation trip to Europe.’
Her motive, he said, was to ‘support her false public narrative of financial destitution in an attempt to further harm my reputation……as a fraudulent way to strong-arm me into paying more support than I can afford.’
Gruffudd also maintained that subpoenaed bank records show that Evans is far from being broke.
Pictured: Gruffudd (second from left) in the Fantastic Four movie from 2005
Pictured: Gruffudd (left) and new wife Bianca Wallace (right) in 2024. Wallace is sent to testify during trial
Evans allegedly made more than $130,000 in 2024 and is expected to earn a similar amount this year – a claim that she called ‘false and misleading.’
In one court filing, Gruffudd said he was ‘mortified’ to have received ‘dozens of stressed messages from our minor children in which they have parroted Alice’s false and manufactured claims of becoming homeless in the immediate future.’
But Evans denied manipulating the children to send plaintive messages to their father.
‘I absolutely did not ask the children to send messages to (Gruffudd) about our eviction and pending homelessness,’ she said in court filings. ‘The children are well aware of our financial distress and the eviction.’
Evans also attacked Gruffudd’s accusation that his ex is still violating a three-year domestic abuse restraining order against her ‘by physically stalking, ongoing harassment and publicly posting denigrating things’ about me on social media.’
She called the restraining order Gruffudd’s effort ‘to muzzle me and violate my First Amendment rights.’
Evans added. ‘There is absolutely no evidence of stalking…..I have no idea where he and his wife live, nor do I have any interest in stalking them. This is plainly ridiculous.’
Gruffudd was granted the restraining order in August 2022 after telling the court how Evans had ‘engaged in a smear campaign of hateful text messages, emails and social media posts…aimed at intimidating me and my fiancé Bianca Wallace while alienating our two young children from me.’
Pictured: Gruffudd leaving a parking lot after court on Monday
Pictured: Evans (left) and Gruffudd (right) in 2015. Gruffudd has asked the court to extend his restraining order against Evans
With the restraining order due to expire Monday, Gruffudd asked the court to extend it because of what he called Evans’ ‘continued abuse.’
Judge Convey agreed Monday to extend the restraining order to March 6, 2026, the last possible day of the upcoming trial.
Gruffudd met Evans on the set of the movie 102 Dalmatians more than 20 years ago. They fell in love in real life and married in Mexico in 2007.
He filed for divorce in March 2021, after Alice announced on social media that her husband of 14 years was leaving her, They were divorced in July 2023.