{"id":2133753,"date":"2025-11-04T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2133753"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:35:00","slug":"justin-baldonis-400m-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-comes-to-dramatic-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/justin-baldonis-400m-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-comes-to-dramatic-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni&#8217;s $400M lawsuit against Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds comes to dramatic ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Justin Baldoni\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/01\/16\/celebrity-news\/justin-baldoni-drags-taylor-swift-into-it-ends-with-us-legal-battle-as-he-sues-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-for-400m\/\">$400 million defamation and extortion countersuit<\/a> against\u00a0Blake Lively\u00a0and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, has been officially ended by the judge overseeing the case.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman entered a final judgement stating that Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios co-plaintiffs had declined to file an amended complaint, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>Liman said he had contacted all parties in mid-October to warn them that he would be entering a final judgment to conclude the case, noting that Lively was the only one to respond.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Justin Baldoni\u2019s $400 million defamation and extortion countersuit against\u00a0Blake Lively\u00a0and Ryan Reynolds has been officially ended by the judge overseeing the case. <span class=\"credit\">LionsShareNews \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman entered a final judgement stating that Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios co-plaintiffs had declined to file an amended complaint. <span class=\"credit\">vancityreynolds\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The actress, 38, asked that her request for legal fees remain active, which Liman granted.<\/p>\n<p>Baldoni\u2019s legal team tells us he opted not to file an amended complaint so that he has the option to proceed with an appeal. He remains focused on Lively\u2019s case, which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/01\/28\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-get-march-2026-trial-date\/\">will be tried<\/a>\u00a0in March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Baldoni\u2019s January countersuit \u2014 as well as his\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/12\/31\/celebrity-news\/justin-baldoni-files-250m-libel-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times-over-blake-lively-story\/\">$250 million libel lawsuit<\/a> against the New York Times\u00a0\u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/09\/celebrity-news\/judge-tosses-justin-baldonis-400m-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds\/\">were initially tossed out<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Liman said he had contacted all parties in mid-October to warn them that he would be entering a final judgment to conclude the case, noting that Lively was the only one to respond. <span class=\"credit\">Dave Benett\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The actress asked that her request for legal fees remain active, which Liman granted. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time, Liman ruled that Baldoni, 41, and his co-plaintiffs \u201chave not alleged that Lively is responsible for any statements other than the statements in her [California Civil Rights Department] complaint, which are privileged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lively <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/12\/21\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-sues-justin-baldoni-for-sexual-harassment-on-it-ends-with-us-set\/\">first\u00a0accused her \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d co-star and director<\/a> of sexual harassment and retaliation in December 2024, going on to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/12\/31\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-sues-justin-baldoni-over-it-ends-with-us-feud\/\">formally sue him later that month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times was first to report on her claims.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Baldoni\u2019s legal team tells Page Six he opted not to file an amended complaint so that he has the option to proceed with an appeal. He remains focused on Lively\u2019s case, which will be tried in March 2026. <span class=\"credit\">Nancy Rivera \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Baldoni\u2019s January countersuit \u2014 as well as his\u00a0$250 million libel lawsuit against the New York Times\u00a0\u2014 were initially tossed out in June. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Sony Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Liman explained that Baldoni\u2019s countersuit \u201calleged that Reynolds and [publicist Leslie] Sloane made additional statements accusing Baldoni of sexual misconduct and that the\u00a0Times\u00a0made additional statements accusing the Wayfarer Parties of engaging in a smear campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Liman continued, \u201cThe Wayfarer Parties have not alleged that Reynolds, Sloane or the\u00a0Times\u00a0would 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldoni has continued to deny Lively\u2019s allegations against him.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Baldoni\u2019s $400 million defamation and extortion countersuit against\u00a0Blake Lively\u00a0and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, has been officially ended by the judge overseeing the case. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman entered a final judgement stating that Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios co-plaintiffs had declined to file an amended complaint, according to court documents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2133754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25078,350799,24003,274219,24207],"class_list":["post-2133753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-blake-lively","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-celebrity-news","tag-justin-baldoni","tag-ryan-reynolds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Justin-Baldonis-400M-lawsuit-against-Blake-Lively-Ryan-Reynolds-comes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133755,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133753\/revisions\/2133755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}