Blake Lively seeks stronger protective order after receiving ‘violent’ and ‘threatening’ messages amid Justin Baldoni legal war

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her legal battle with Justin Baldoni after allegedly receiving “violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications.”Attorneys for Baldoni, 41, along with those for Lively, 37, and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, had previously agreed to a “model” protective order (PO) ahead of their March 2026 civil trial to prevent the public dissemination of sensitive documents and information as discovery gets underway.However, in a letter submitted to Judge Lewis J.

Liman in the Southern District of New York on Thursday viewed by The Post, Lively and Reynolds’ lawyers claim that “good cause exists for the Court to provide additional protections” beyond those agreed to in the model PO.The letter cites Lively’s amended complaint against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director filed earlier this week, which alleges the “Gossip Girl” alum, along with “her family, other members of the [‘It Ends With Us’] cast, various fact witnesses,” along with people who have publicly voiced their support for the actress “have received violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications.”The additional protections requested by Lively and Reynolds include “an Attorney’s Eyes Only (‘AEO’) category, which applies to ‘Confidential Discovery Material of such a highly confidential and personal, sensitive, or proprietary nature that the revelation of such is likely to cause a competitive, business, commercial, financial, personal or privacy injury,'” according to the letter.