Blake Lively
Court should reject Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit
New round in the court dispute: Blake Lively, the court asks in an application to reject Justin Baldoni’s millions of lawsuit for defamation.
Blake Lively (37) continues to fight in court bitterly against Justin Baldoni (41). In a new application on Thursday (January 30), she and her husband Ryan Reynolds (48) asked the Federal Court to reject the actor’s lawsuit. That reported.
In the letter to the federal court, the representatives of the couple expressed the request of their clients to drop the lawsuit of their “only once” director Justin Baldoni. “The LIVELY Reynolds parties intend to apply for the dismissal of the lawsuit,” lawyer Michael Gottlieb told the responsible judge Lewis Liman in the letter.
Liman had previously asked the lawyers to send a written notification that “in one sentence the defendant’s intention to submit an application for dismissal.” According to the magazine, he will still set the final period for submitting the application.
First hearing planned on Monday
Next Monday (February 3), the first a number of hearings in the LIVELY case against Baldoni will take place. According to “Variety”, the pre -negotiation conference was preferred from the original date on February 12, since the process in this case is to begin on March 9, 2026.
It is expected to be about the behavior of Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman. Lively’s representatives had stated that Freedman made prejudice in the press, which in their opinion, which in their opinion, made the selection of the jury. “The endless stream of defaming and extrajudicial media reports must have an end,” said LIVELYS team. Freedman replied that he had every right to defend his client publicly against Lively’s media hype.
Slope battle around “only once more”
It started with the judicial dispute between actress Blake Lively and her colleague Justin Baldoni with a lawsuit in Lively in December. In it she accused her co-star and director of having sexually harassed her on the set of the movie “only once” that came to cinemas in August 2024. When she wanted to comment on this, he publicly launched a hate campaign against her.
In January, Baldoni submitted a counterclaim in which he in turn indicated Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane for defamation. He demands $ 400 million compensation from the trio (around 386 million euros) for reputation damage.
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