Justin Baldoni’s demand against Blake Lively was dismissed by a federal judge in New York on Monday.
The co -star of “ends with us” have been in A heated legal dispute Since December 2024.
In his motion, Judge Lewis J. Liman dismissed the counter of $ 400 million of Justin Baldoni against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, the couple’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, as well as Baldoni’s defamation claim against the New York Times.
“The assumptions made indicate that the Times reviewed the evidence available and reported, perhaps dramatized, which believed it happened,” said the opinion. “The Times did not have an obvious reason to favor the version of Lively’s events.”
Baldoni has until June 23 to refill some of his statements.
The lawyers of Lively, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, described the dismissal as a “total victory and a complete claim for Blake Lively, along with those that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties crawled to their demand for reprisal, including Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and the New York Times.”
“As we have said from the first day, this demand for ‘$ 400 million’ was a farce, and the court saw it just through,” the statement continued. “We look forward to the next round, which looks for lawyers, tripled damage and punitive damage against Baldoni, Sarowitz, Nathan and the other parties that perpetrated this abusive litigation.”
Blake Lively in New York City, April 29, 2025 and Justin Baldoni in New York City, on August 8, 2024.
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“Good Morning America” has communicated with Baldoni’s lawyers to comment.
Lively filed a complaint for the first time on December 20, 2024, against Baldoni, with the California Civil Rights Department accusing him of sexual harassment on the film’s set, which he also directed.
Baldoni responded on December 31, 2024, with the demand now distracted against the New York Times by defamation and the invasion of the privacy of false light after publishing the article on Lively’s complaint in California.
The lawsuit affirmed the Times, which included in its article alleged text messages and email exchanges between the publicists of Baldoni, Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan and the newspaper, had been based on “collected” communications and altered, with details “stripped of the necessary context and deliberately” bad “context.
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman, said at that time that the Times “shrugged from the wishes and whims of two powerful elites of Hollywood” untouchable “, without taking into account the journalistic practices and ethics that once agreed to the publication reverie through the use of master and manipulated texts and intentionally omitting the texts that dispute their elegant prarnene.”
A New York Times spokesman told “GMA” at that time that “they plan to defend themselves vigorously against demand.”
That same day, the animated formalized details of his California complaint to a lawsuit against Baldoni and others accused of sexual harassment.
Baldoni has denied accusations.
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