Justin Baldoni Sues Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400 Million

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It Ends With Us co-stars and that seems never-ending. This time, Baldoni has sued Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, as well as publicist Leslie Sloane and her PR company, to the tune of $400 million for alleged defamation and extortion.

This is not to be confused with , which published a on an alleged smear campaign against Lively, which the actor says was perpetrated by Baldoni and his team.Attorneys for Baldoni against Lively and Reynolds on January 16 in the Southern District of New York.

The suit was filed on behalf of Baldoni, as well as producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel, crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, and Baldoni's production company.“This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media,” said Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman in a statement to . “It is clear based on our own all out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret.

Blake Lively was either severely misled by her team or intentionally and knowingly misrepresented the truth.”Four months after the film’s release, Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment.So far, Lively and Reynolds have yet to release a statement in response to the latest legal filing.Back in December 2024, before the Times article was published, Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni for sexual harassment on the set of their film, It.