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 $ 400 million counters Against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, the couple’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, as well as Baldoni’s defamation claim against 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.”
This image released by Sony Pictures shows Justin Baldoni, to the right already Blake Lively in a “IT scene ends with us.”
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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 now relaxed lawsuit Against The New York Times for the dissemination and invasion of the false light of privacy after publishing the article on Lively 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.”
“Good Morning America” has communicated with the New York Times to comment on dismissal.
The same day, Baldoni filed his lawsuit against the times, the animated formal details of his California complaint to a lawsuit against Baldoni and others accused of sexual harassment.
Baldoni denied the accusations and formally presented his civil demand for $ 400 million in January against Lively, Reynolds, Sloane and the Public Relations Company of Sloane, Vision PR, for, among other things, extortion and defamation.
Blake Lively in New York City, April 29, 2025 and Justin Baldoni in New York City, on August 8, 2024.
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The lawsuit stated that Lively pushed a “false and harmful narrative” against Baldoni who was “full of lies and expressed ‘evidence'” by accusing him of sexual harassment in the whole of “ends with us.”
He also accused Sloane of spreading “malicious stories that portray Baldoni as a sexual predator” and Reynolds of using the term to describe Baldoni in a call with the Baldoni agent, which Baldoni affirms led his representative to let him fall as a client. In addition, Baldoni’s demand affirmed that he and the other applicants listed were “the objectives of a calculated smear campaign” of Reynolds and Lively.
Lively’s lawyers responded at that time to Baldoni’s demand and called it “another chapter in the abuser’s play book.”
Since then, the lawyers of the co -star “It ends with us” have launched grieving campaigns with each other.
In March, Lively and Reynolds presented a motion to dismiss Baldoni’s complaint against them.
Liman’s decision to say goodbye to Baldoni’s counter against Lively and Reynolds arrives a few days after Dailymail James Vituscka admitted an error when using the phrase “sexually attacked” in text messages between him and Sloane.
The New York Times building in New York City on February 1, 2022.
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In his complaint, Baldoni’s lawyers affirmed that Sloane told the journalist Lively was “sexually attacked”, an without foundation that did not even Lively had gone to claim, designed to destroy Baldoni and his reputation. “
Vitusckka said in his affidavit that Sloane “never told me that Mrs. Lively was sexually harassed or sexually assaulted by Justin Baldoni or any other person” and said that “the parties and their Wayfarer advice did not consult me about what I meant with my use of the term” sexually assaulted. “
A statement shared by Sloane’s lawyer said that Sloane is “totally claimed” by Vitusckka’s statement.
Liman’s decision to throw the Baldoni contrademer also follows the judge allowing Lively not to present tests or do claims of emotional anguish, which was initially included in his presentation against Baldoni in December.
