Ioan Gruffudd’s Income Plummeted After Ex-Wife Alice Evans Spread 'Malicious' Gossip About 'Fantastic Four' star During Bitter Split
Ioan Gruffudd's earnings dramatically dropped due to ex-wife Alice Evans' five campaign of hate, according to his lawyer.
May 7 2026, Published 8:29 a.m. ET
Ioan Gruffudd's income plummeted in the midst of his bitter split from ex-wife Alice Evans after she spread "malicious" gossip about the actor, his lawyer has claimed.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the Fantastic Four star's earnings went from $585,000 a year to $125,000 as a result of Evans' abuse, according to attorney Joseph Langlois who is representing Gruffudd in his legal war with his ex.
'Five-Year Campaign Of False Narratives'
Gruffudd's lawyer claims Evans set out to 'ruin' actor after marriage split.
He claims Evans, 57, set out to "ruin" her former husband's acting career with her "five-year campaign of false narratives — and she succeeded."
Langlois added Ioan and his new wife Bianca (Wallace) have been "emotionally and economically devastated by Evans' callous and repeated violations" of a restraining order that was imposed to stop her from posting false and derogatory comments about them on social media.
Langlois was making his closing argument at a bitter trial in which Gruffudd, 52, is asking Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Convey to end the spousal support he currently has to pay Evans, firstly because of her abuse and second because he claims he's already "overpaid her by almost $400,000."
Spousal Support Row
Gruffudd is attempting to stop making spousal support payments to Evans, who wants to increase them.
Evans, who was married to Gruffudd for 14 years, meanwhile is asking the judge to force her ex-husband to increase the $1,500 he's paying her monthly in spousal support.
He's already paying an agreed $3,570 a month in child support for their two daughters, Ella, now 16 and Elsie, 12.
In March, during the first phase of the trial, Judge Convey slapped Evans with a five-year restraining order over her barrage of negative online posts about Gruffudd, and his second wife, Australian actress Wallace, 33.
'He Is Struggling Every Single Month'
The actor, here with new wife Bianca Wallace, is now struggling to pay bills, according to lawyer.
On Wednesday, Langlois told the court that in the three years before Gruffudd and Evans split in early 2021, he was earning an average of $585,000 a year "as an A-list actor in high demand."
But in the four years since their breakup "his income dropped to an average of $125,000 a year….He is struggling every single month. He had to borrow money to pay for daily necessities."
Langlois said the drop in Gruffudd's fortunes was a result of damage to his reputation caused by Evans' "20,000 (social media) posts" over five years, about he and Wallace, many of them "horrendously negative," some of them falsely accusing him of being a "deadbeat dad, a child abuser, a pedophile."
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Evans is also accused to trying to destroy his public image.
Her barrage of abusive social media posts "were calculated to damage, if not destroy, his public image and his career as an actor," he added.
Langlois argued that Gruffudd's spousal support payments to Evans should be terminated because, if he continued pay his abuser, that would a "victim financing his own abuse."
Talking of the "emotional scars' Evans" abuse has left, Langlois said that Gruffudd has spent many years, starting as a child actor, building a respected track record in his profession.
"Once that reputation is ruined, it's practically impossible to recover," said the attorney. "Justice demands the termination of spousal support."
