Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit against Blake Lively was dismissed by a federal choose in New York on Monday.
The “It Ends With Us” co-stars have been in a heated authorized feud since 2024.
In his movement, Choose Lewis J. Liman dismissed Justin Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit in opposition to Energetic, her husband Ryan Reynolds, the couple’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, in addition to Baldoni’s defamation declare in opposition to The New York Instances.
“The alleged info point out that the Instances reviewed the accessible proof and reported, maybe in a dramatized method, what it believed to have occurred,” the opinion mentioned. “The Instances had no apparent motive to favor Energetic’s model of occasions.”
Blake Energetic in New York Metropolis, April 29, 2025 and Justin Baldoni in New York Metropolis, Aug. 8, 2024.
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Baldoni has till June 23 to refile a few of his claims.
Energetic’s attorneys, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, known as the dismissal a “complete victory and full vindication for Blake Energetic, together with people who Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, together with Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and The New York Instances.”
“As we now have mentioned from day one, this ‘$400 million’ lawsuit was a sham, and the Court docket noticed proper by way of it,” the assertion continued. “We stay up for the following spherical, which is looking for attorneys’ charges, treble damages and punitive damages in opposition to Baldoni, Sarowitz, Nathan, and the opposite Wayfarer Events who perpetrated this abusive litigation.”
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