{"id":75872,"date":"2025-06-10T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=75872"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:05:05","slug":"justin-baldoni-blake-lively-lawsuit-drama-update-heres-what-happened-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/justin-baldoni-blake-lively-lawsuit-drama-update-heres-what-happened-now\/75872\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively lawsuit drama update: Here\u2019s what happened now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker and actor Justin Baldoni<\/a> (yes, the guy from Jane the Virgin<\/em>) had filed a massive $400 million lawsuit against actress Blake Lively<\/a>, her husband Ryan Reynolds<\/a>, and even The New York Times,<\/em>\u00a0claiming that they were involved in spreading false accusations against him. He even tried to drag Marvel into it, saying that the Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> character \u201cNicepool\u201d was a shady reference to him.<\/p>\n

But now? A judge has dismissed Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit. Yep, it got thrown out, well, most of it.<\/p>\n

On the surface, this seems like a big win for Blake Lively. But not so fast.<\/p>\n

Justin Baldoni\u2019s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, isn\u2019t backing down. He told TMZ<\/em> that they\u2019re \u201cjust getting started.\u201d According to him, the judge hasn\u2019t shut the door completely. In fact, they\u2019ve been allowed to revise and refile four out of the seven claims against Blake.<\/p>\n

Freedman said, \u201cWhile Blake\u2019s team is out here acting like they\u2019ve won, the truth is, we\u2019ve been invited to come back with stronger evidence and clearer accusations.\u201d He basically accused Lively\u2019s side of celebrating too soon, and said this case is actually about serious issues like false allegations of sexual harassment and an alleged smear campaign, which Lively\u2019s team apparently called \u201cuntraceable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So what\u2019s is the Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively drama about?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Well, it all started after the release of It Ends With Us<\/em>, the movie that both Baldoni and Lively starred in. Around six months later, Lively filed a lawsuit accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment and claimed that he tried to ruin her reputation behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Baldoni hit back with his own lawsuit, accusing Lively and Reynolds of defamation (basically, lying about him in a way that damaged his reputation) and extortion.<\/p>\n

While Blake may have scored a temporary legal win by getting most of Baldoni\u2019s claims tossed out, things are still very messy. And it\u2019s not just the courtroom where the fallout is happening.<\/p>\n

Sources say this case has also ruined Blake Lively\u2019s longtime friendship with Taylor Swift. Even though the singer was removed from the lawsuit earlier, she\u2019s reportedly not talking to Blake anymore. Oof.<\/p>\n

So yeah, the judge might\u2019ve dropped parts of the case, but Baldoni\u2019s side is saying: \u201cWe\u2019ll be back.\u201d And judging by the tone of things, this courtroom drama might just be getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The legal drama between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively is far from over and things are getting spicy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":75873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[458,24941],"class_list":["post-75872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-blake-lively","tag-justin-baldoni"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}