Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit against Blake Lively was dismissed by a federal judge in New York on Monday.
The opponent playing “it ended with us” has entered hot legal feud Since December 2024.
In his motion, Judge Lewis J. Liman fired Justin Baldoni Countersuit $ 400 million Against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, the couple’s public relations, Leslie Sloane, and Baldoni’s defamation claims to the New York Times.
“The facts that allegedly show that the TIMES reviewed the available evidence and reported, perhaps in a dramatized manner, what was believed to have happened,” said the opinion. “The Times does not have a clear motive to support the Lively event version.”
Baldoni has until June 23 to slander some of its claims.
Lively’s lawyers, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, called the dismissal as “total victory and complete justification for Blake Lively, along with Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer’s parties dragged to their retaliation lawsuit, including Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and New York Times.”
“As we have said since the first day, the ‘$ 400 million’ lawsuit is fake, and the court sees it through it,” the statement continued. “We are waiting for the next round, who are looking for lawyer costs, treble damage and damage to punishment against Baldoni, Sarowitz, Nathan, and other Wayfarer parties who litigate this harassment.”
This picture released by Sony Pictures shows Justin Baldoni, Right, and Blake Lively in a scene of “Ends with US.”
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“Good Morning America” has reached Baldoni’s lawyer to comment.
Lively first filed a complaint on December 20, 2024, against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department who accused him of committing sexual harassment at the filming site, which was also directed.
Baldoni responded on December 31, 2024, with the current dismis lawsuit Against The New York Times for defamation and invasion of privacy of false light after publishing articles about complaints of Lively California.
The lawsuit claimed the Times, which were included in the article allegedly text messages and email exchanges between Baldoni Publis Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan and the newspaper, had relying on “chosen cherries” and changed communication, with the details of “stripped of the context needed and deliberately” adjusted “for” wrong, “mislead.”.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, said that at the time that The Times “curled up to the desires and desires of the two strong Hollywood elites ‘untouched’, ignoring journalistic and ethical practices that had been in accordance with respected publications using the selected texts and manipulated and deliberately eliminating texts that denied the inscriptions he chose.
A New York Times spokesman told “GMA” at that time that they “planned to maintain enthusiastically the lawsuit.”
“Good Morning America” has reached The New York Times to comment on dismissal.
On the same day Baldoni filed his lawsuit against The Times, inaugurating the details that inaugurated from his complaint in California into a lawsuit against Baldoni and other defendants for sexual harassment.
Baldoni denied the accusation and he officially filed a $ 400 million civil suit in January against Lively, Reynolds, Sloane and Sloane Public Relations, Vision PR, because, among others, extortion and defamation.
Blake Lively in New York City, April 29, 2025 and Justin Baldoni in New York City, August 8, 2024.
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The lawsuit was claimed by Lively pushing “wrong and damaging narration” against Baldoni who “full of lies and ‘evidence’ treated” in accusing him sexual harassment at the set “it ended with us.”
He also accused Sloane of spreading “an evil story that described Baldoni as a sexual predator” and Reynolds used the term to describe Baldoni in a call with Baldoni’s agent, which Baldoni claimed to cause his representative to drop him as a client. In addition, Baldoni’s lawsuit claims that he and the other plaintiffs listed are “Smear Campaign Targets that are calculated and spicy” by Reynolds and Lively.
Lively’s lawyer responded at that time against Baldoni’s lawsuit and called him “another chapter at The Abuser Playbook.”
Since then, the lawyer for Co-Stars “ended with us” has launched a duel campaign with each other.
In March, Lively and Reynolds each filed a motion to ignore Baldoni’s complaints to them.
Liman’s decision to stop Baldoni’s back counter against Lively and Reynolds came a few days after Dailymail reporter James Vituscka admitted mistakes in the use of the phrase “sexually attacked” in a text message between him and Sloane.
New York Times building in New York City on February 1, 2022.
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In his complaint, Baldoni’s lawyer claimed that Sloane told a reporter who was “‘attacking sexually’ – an unfounded accusation that not even alive had claimed, which was designed to destroy Baldoni and his reputation.”
Vituscka said in the declaration swearing that Sloane “never told me that MS Lively was sexually harassed or sexually harassed by Justin Baldoni or anyone” and said that “Wayfar parties and their advisers did not consult with me about what I mean by using the term ‘sexual balance’.
The statement shared by Sloane’s lawyer said that Sloane was “fully justified” by the Vituscka declaration.
Liman’s decision to throw Baldoni’s counter also followed judges who let Lively not provide evidence or make emotional pressure claims, which were originally included in his submission of Baldoni in December.