Despite an important first setback, Justin Baldoni is not ready to stop the legal battle between Blake Lively. This Monday, June 9, the defamation complaint of the director of Never again (end with us) However, against the actress and her husband Ryan Reynolds estimated at $ 400 million was completely rejected. The couple’s legal team congratulated a “total victory.”
A completely “false” statement according to Bryan Freedman, Justin Baldoni’s lawyer. “Although the Court has rejected the complaint complaints, it invited us to modify four of the seven complaints against Mrs. Lively, which will allow additional evidence and refine the accusations,” said June 10 in a statement provided Varietywhere he explains wanting to clarify the result of this decision.
“This issue is related to false accusations of sexual harassment and reprisals, as well as a defamation campaign, that Mrs. Lively’s team conveniently describes” intraçable “because he cannot prove what has never happened,” said the legal representative.
Judge Lewis J. Liman authorized that the director changed and again presented part of the accusations in question, but refer mainly to contractual problems according to the magazine. On the contrary, Blake Lively’s sexual harassment charges towards the director seem “legally protected.”
“Total failure” according to Blake Lively’s lawyers
However, “even more important” according to Bryan Freedman “, the claims of Mrs. Lively are not more true today than yesterday. And with the facts in our favor, we advance with the same confidence as when Mrs. Lively and her accomplices have committed this battle.”
Later in the day, Blake Lively, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb lawyers reacted to the words of their colleague. “No manipulation, boasting or inventive calculations by Justin Baldoni’s legal team will change the shameful reality that hits them: the project to continue Blake Lively and his family until forgetting is a total failure,” they said in a statement.
After the rejection of the complaint, they had denounced a “imposture” perforated by the court and said they were waiting impatiently “the next step that consisted of claiming” lawyers and triple fees and punitive damage against the opponent.
The defamation complaint filed by Justin Baldoni against New York Times For him, according to him, he conspired with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds to destroy his career, he was also rejected. It was estimated at $ 250 million. Finally, the trial on the actress’s complaint for sexual harassment and reprisals against the director and his company Wayfarer Studios is still established in March 2026.
Source: BFM TV
