{"id":28763,"date":"2025-06-09T19:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28763"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:52:58","slug":"justin-baldonis-400000000-defamation-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-gets-dismissed-by-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28763","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni’s $400,000,000 defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively gets dismissed by judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Justin Baldoni’s $400,000,000 defamation countersuit against Blake Lively has been dismissed by Judge Lewis Liman on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2024,\u00a0Lively filed her initial lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against her\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>\u00a0co-star\u00a0Justin Baldoni<\/a>, where she accused the director of sexual harassment and orchestrating a subsequent ‘social manipulation’ campaign against her.<\/p>\n

In turn, Baldoni\u00a0issued a counterclaim<\/a>\u00a0against\u00a0Lively<\/a>\u00a0and her husband,\u00a0Ryan Reynolds<\/a>, accusing them of defamation, civil extortion, and other claims.<\/p>\n

The two suits also included several\u00a0alleged text messages between the two<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0their PR teams<\/a>, as well as\u00a0a set of alleged demands made by Lively<\/a>\u00a0for Baldoni and others on set.<\/p>\n

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Baldoni’s countersuit has been dismissed (Araya Doheny\/Variety via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Both parties’ legal teams have denied the claims presented in both lawsuits, with Baldoni’s lawyers\u00a0calling Lively’s accusations ‘categorically false’<\/a>, while the\u00a0A Simple Favor<\/em>\u00a0star’s lawyers accused the director\u00a0of attempting to ‘turn the tables on the victim’.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, in a new development to the long-running feud, Balodni’s countersuit has been thrown out.<\/p>\n

In an order obtained by Fox News, Judge Liman\u00a0wrote<\/a>: “The Wayfarer Parties have not alleged that Lively is responsible for any statements other than the statements in her CRD complaint, which are privileged.<\/p>\n

“The Wayfarer Parties have alleged that Reynolds and [publicist Leslie] Sloane made additional statements accusing Baldoni of sexual misconduct and that the Times made additional statements accusing the Wayfarer Parties of engaging in a smear campaign.”<\/p>\n

The judge concluded: “But the Wayfarer Parties have not alleged that Reynolds, Sloane or the Times would have seriously doubted these statements were true based on the information available to them, as is required for them to be liable for defamation under applicable law.”<\/p>\n

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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively have been locked in a legal battle (Jose Perez\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In a statement obtained by PEOPLE magazine, Lively’s attorneys, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb,\u00a0said<\/a>: “Today’s opinion is a total victory and a complete vindication for Blake Lively, along with those that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Parties dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, including Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“As we have said from day one, this ‘$400 million’ lawsuit was a sham, and the Court saw right through it,” they added. “We look forward to the next round, which is seeking attorneys\u2019 fees, treble damages and punitive damages against Baldoni, [Steve] Sarowitz, [Melissa] Nathan and the other Wayfarer Parties who perpetrated this abusive litigation.”<\/p>\n

LADbible Group has reached out to Baldoni’s team for comment.<\/p>\n

It comes just weeks after\u00a0Lively made an unexpected legal move<\/a>\u00a0in her suit against her former co-star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Justin Baldoni’s $400,000,000 defamation countersuit against Blake Lively has been dismissed by Judge Lewis Liman on Monday. In 2024,\u00a0Lively filed her initial lawsuit\u00a0against her\u00a0It Ends With Us\u00a0co-star\u00a0Justin Baldoni, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28765,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763\/revisions\/28765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}