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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have agreed to disagree.Legal teams for both Lively and Baldoni told Judge Lewis Liman that “settlement discussions would be premature,” according to a joint letter filed in court and obtained by Fox News Digital. The letter also noted that “the parties agree that mediation and the Discovery Protocols… are inappropriate for this case.”The federal judge agreed with the “It Ends With Us” stars and granted the order Thursday.Fox News Digital reached out to both sides for additional comment.In December, Lively detailed allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation, intentional affliction of emotional distress, negligence, and more against Baldoni and film producer Jamey Heath in a complaint first filed with the California Civil Rights Department and later in federal court.Baldoni, in his own lawsuit filed in January, insisted that Lively “falsely” had accused him in an attempt to repair her reputation amid the fallout around the movie’s press tour after the actress took control of the film.

her account last month.But Hoover’s profile no longer features any pictures of the film adaptation’s stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who are currently suing each other.Hoover also deleted any traces of last year’s “It Ends With Us” promotional tour that used to be on her account.Hoover fled Instagram in January after the start of Lively and Baldoni’s hostile legal battle. The actors played the lead roles in the adaptation of Hoover’s 2016 best-selling novel.

the accused sexual predator is allegedly branded a “monster” with “a lot of similarities” to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The defamation suit claims that NBC’s parent company and the production company Ample “shamelessly” capitalized on the public’s “insatiable appetite” for Combs content by airing alleged “conspiracy theories” about the fallen rap kingpin in its “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” film released on Peacock last month.The doc “falsely, recklessly, and maliciously” accuses Combs, 55, of “murdering” his ex-girlfriend Kimberly Porter, Brooklyn hip-hop legend Christopher Wallace — also known as “Biggie Smalls” or “The Notorious B.I.G.” — and others, the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court alleges.The flick “assumes that Mr. Combs has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him,” Combs’ lawyers wrote.“It maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr.

Critics Choice Awards despite his film “Deadpool & Wolverine” tying for Best Comedy film with Kieran Culkin’s “A Real Pain.”The funnyman and his wife, Blake Lively, have largely avoided the spotlight amid their ongoing legal battle with Lively’s “It Ends With Us” co-star, Justin Baldoni. However, Reynolds, 48, took to Instagram hours after the Critic’s Choice ceremony to acknowledge his win — and reveal his whereabouts.

Nick Cannon‘s been a “Bad” boy.The host and creator of the Viacom-owned MTV’s wildly-successful improv rap battle show “Wild N’ Out” allegedly stole key elements of the program for a copycat on the subscription-based streaming platform Zeus Network — home to Cannon’s new program, “Bad Vs. Wild,” according to a lawsuit.The inordinately virile musician and actor created and hosted “Wild ‘n Out” starting in 2005 and it aired for two decades over 21 seasons.Itself an urban take on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” “Wild ‘n Out” brought celebs and street artists together for face-to-face rap battles that primarily consisted of “Your mama”-esque disses.In 2024, Cannon, 44, jumped to Zeus and launched “Bad vs. Wild.”“Zeus’s copying of these elements in ‘Bad vs.

ongoing legal battle with his “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively. The “Jane the Virgin” vet will appear on Monday’s episode of the “Gent’s Talk” podcast, though it remains to be seen if his emotional response seen in a teaser clip shared on TikTok is connected to his high-profile feud that erupted in December.“I had an intense year,” Baldoni tells host Samir Mourani during the interview, which was reportedly filmed a month before Lively publicly accused him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a retaliatory public smear campaign against her.NEW Justin Baldoni Episode Dropping Monday Gents Talk Podcast ft.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal battle while hosting the 2025 Critics Choice Awards. The comedian brought up the “It Ends With Us” stars’ seemingly never-ending feud during her opening monologue in front of the guests gathered at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday.“I want to acknowledge that we’ve been through a lot lately, not just here in Los Angeles, but our entire country; waking up every day not knowing what news we’re going to hear that will disappoint or horrify us,” Handler said, alluding to the wildfires that ravaged huge swaths of LA in January and possibly Donald Trump’s second term as US president.“So it is important in times like these to have a distraction, and that’s why I want to personally extend my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively,” the former “Chelsea Lately” host quipped.“Thank you for providing us with that distraction,” she went on.

defamation trial against Amber Heard. Benjamin Chew appeared on “Law & Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber” Tuesday and weighed in on the “It Ends With Us” lawsuit — including Baldoni’s move to launch a website with an amended version of his $400 million lawsuit against Lively, 37, as well as a timeline of events relevant to the case.

claims that she isn’t suffering from dementia. Morrissey, who has been in charge of Williams’ care and finances since May 2022, informed the judge she wants to be transparent about Wendy’s condition and believes it “would be prudent for [Wendy] to undergo a new medical evaluation that will involve comprehensive neurological and psychological testing by a specialist in the field,” reported TMZ on Wednesday citing a letter from the guardian’s attorney.Morrissey reportedly informed the judge about “The Wendy Williams Show” alum’s recent interviews with “The Breakfast Club” and others, in which she declared she was “not cognitively impaired” and did not have frontotemporal dementia, despite her “care team” announcing her diagnosis in 2023.

in Justin Baldoni’s alleged smear campaign against her.On Tuesday, Jed Wallace of Street Relations filed a complaint in a Texas federal court obtained by The Post, accusing Lively of defamation for entangling him in her legal battle with her “It Ends With Us” co-star. Wallace’s suit centers on Lively’s previous claims that he allegedly created fake content on social media that seemed to target her while supporting Baldoni.Wallace is seeking a minimum of $7 million in damages, along with a court ruling affirming that he did not sexually harass or retaliate against the actress.The lawsuit arrived the same day Lively withdrew a petition submitted on Jan.

Baldoni’s new website and filed in court, the movie’s director (Baldoni), 41, claims its leading lady (Lively), 37, “often” refused to go to fittings and demanded her character Lily Bloom’s outfits be “re-shopped,” thus resulting in an alleged inflated budget by $430,000.According to Baldoni’s amended complaint from his $400 million suit, Lively reportedly demanded the “costume department pack up wardrobe and deliver it to her personal residence” in Manhattan instead of traveling to the production office — roughly 15 minutes from her home — resulting in additional expenses. “Loading the wardrobe department on trucks and delivering the contents to Lively’s home in the middle of congested Manhattan for fittings cost time and money—always in short supply on any major film,” the court docs read.

sequel featuring Anna Kendrick will premiere at the 2025 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, as the opening night debut on March 7.The film’s world premiere date was announced on Tuesday, February 4, on SXSW’s Instagram page.Sharing a photo from the film of Kendrick, 39, with co-star Andrew Rannells, 46, and the movie’s director Paul Feig, the caption read, “Announcing the World Premiere of Another Simple Favor, directed by @paulfeig as the Opening Night Film for the 2025 #SXSW Film & TV Festival.”Lively was not included in the announcement picture.Those not going to this year’s SXSW will have to wait nearly two additional months to watch the “A Simple Favor” sequel as it won’t be available to stream on Prime Video until May 1. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be back at my favorite festival in the world where we successfully launched Bridesmaids and Spy, and I cannot begin to say how honored I am to have our film opening it all,” Feig shared in a statement.“I’ve avoided making sequels to any of my films but these characters were just too much fun not to revisit,” he continued.

had kept in contact with the late serial sex trafficker for longer than he initially led on — and royal experts claim that Charles has simply had enough.Several prominent royal experts have since told Fox News that the Firm is waiting “with bated breath” to see if more bombshells will land on the House of Windsor.

his “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively has left him “devastated financially and emotionally,” his lawyer Bryan Freedman said Monday at a pre-trial conference in Manhattan.Speaking in front of a judge assigned to oversee the stars’ warring lawsuits, Freedman added that the accusations Lively leveled against the “Jane the Virgin” alum and his co-defendants — “It Ends With Us” producers Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz, their production company Wayfarer Studios and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel — have allegedly amounted to “hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice.”“My grave concern is that my clients suffered hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice as a result of actions they were blindsided by,” he said.Freedman also pleaded with the judge to fast-track the case, claiming his clients were “suffering greatly.”Michael Gottlieb, attorney for Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, insisted they were not dragging their heels.In her lawsuit filed in New York on New Year’s Eve, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and, along with his associates, orchestrating a public smear campaign against her. The claims, which the “Gossip Girl” veteran first made in an interview with The New York Times, mirrored those included in the her California Civil Rights Department Complaint against Baldoni.He denied her accusations.

their bombshell Hollywood court battle.Manhattan federal judge Lewis Liman instructed lawyers for both Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds and for Baldoni not to make “extrajudicial statements” that could sway potential jurors in advance of a March 2026 trial.“You’ve got a lot in front of the court that gives, I think, the public plenty to feast upon,” Liman said at the end of the first court hearing in the dueling litigation fight over alleged harassment on the set of “It Ends With Us.”He noted that he wanted to avoid the case devolving into “satellite litigation involving the statements of a lawyer.”The agreement came after Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, admitted that his squabble with Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb over what each side has said to the media was childish.“Not to sound like a four-year-old fighting a four-year-old with ‘They started it,’ but in these kinds of cases, once someone says something it becomes fact: There’s no way to fight against it,” Freedman said.But he still insisted: “This was not started by us, your honor.”Lively, 37, sued Baldoni, 41 — who’s also her co-star and director of last year’s “It Ends With Us” — for $250 million, claiming he sexually harassed her while filming and launched a smear campaign when she spoke out about her alleged treatment.

a new website with an amended version of his $400 million lawsuit against the couple, as well as a document that outlines the timeline of events before and after the movie’s filming. Baldoni filed both the amended complaint and the timeline document in court.In the filed timeline, Baldoni claimed that Lively, 37, and Reynolds, 48, tried to force him into taking the blame for the “troubled production” of “It Ends With Us” and the negative press that Lively dealt with while she promoted the flick.Lively and Reynolds allegedly wrote the draft statement in August 2024, the same month the movie came out, after they were “furious” with Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, “for positioning them as promoting the Film as a ‘Barbie film’ while elevating Baldoni to speak on the more serious messaging.”The alleged draft statement said, “IT ENDS WITH US was a troubled production which we take full accountability for.

a new website over the weekend with alleged unseen texts between himself and his co-star Blake Lively, who is suing him for sexual harassment, and her husband Ryan Reynolds.The site, titled “Lawsuit Info,” links to an amended version of his $400 million lawsuit against Lively, 37, Reynolds, 48, and their publicist Leslie Sloane. Reynolds is accusing the trio of defamation and extortion.Baldoni’s website also links to a 168-page document outlining the timeline of events before and after the filming of “It Ends With Us,” which he filed in court as an exhibit to his amended complaint.The 168-page court filing includes never-before-seen texts and emails that Baldoni allegedly exchanged with Lively and Reynolds who, according to Baldoni, streamrolled him during the making of the movie.One of the messages between Baldoni and Lively from April 2023 shows them discussing a rewrite for the film’s iconic rooftop scene.

a photo of him with then-17-year-old Virginia Giuffre emerged, a court has heard.Andrew initially claimed that he had cut ties with the late financier — who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and federal conspiracy charges — in December 2010, shortly after the duo was pictured taking a stroll through Central Park.However, in late February 2011, the scandal-scarred royal wrote to the convicted pedophile, “Keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon.”Epstein and Peter Mandelson, the newly-appointed British Ambassador to the US, remained in close contact until at least August 2012, records show.The emails, seen by Bloomberg, were read aloud in a London courtroom as part of a filing by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is defending an appeal by Jes Staley, former Barclays bank honcho, to the Upper Tribunal.Staley was blocked from all senior management positions until 2023 after it emerged that he lied about his relationship with Epstein.He claimed to have cut all ties with the billionaire “well before” he landed the CEO role at Barclays bank, however, emails disclosed in court proved otherwise.Emails showed that the pair stayed in touch until at least 2015.In one exchange, Epstein invited Andrew to spend time with him and Staley.In his response, the former working royal said he and Staley were due to meet up for dinner in London’s posh Mayfair area the following night.Epstein responded to Andrew on Feb.

Justin Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit, informing a federal judge of the decision on Thursday, reported Variety.Lively, 37, sued Baldoni, 41 — who’s also her co-star and director of “It Ends With Us” — for $250 million, claiming he sexually harassed her while filming and launched a smear campaign when she spoke out about her alleged treatment. Baldoni denied her accusations.He and his publicists countered Lively for $400 million, alleging she defamed them.

“It Ends With Us” legal dispute.The court date for the case was scheduled by Judge Lewis J. Liman in a legal order filed on Monday, according to court documents obtained by The Post.Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41, are suing each other in federal court in New York. Lively filed a $250 million lawsuit against Baldoni last month, alleging sexual harassment and a smear campaign.