Justin Baldoni Sues Blake Full of life and Ryan Reynolds for $400 Million

There is a new growth within the ongoing feud between It Ends With Us co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively and the legal back-and-forth that appears endless. This time, Baldoni has sued Full of life and her husband Ryan Reynolds, in addition to publicist Leslie Sloane and her PR firm, to the tune of $400 million for alleged defamation and extortion. This isn’t to be confused with Baldoni’s $250 million defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, which printed a bombshell report on an alleged smear marketing campaign towards Full of life, which the actor says was perpetrated by Baldoni and his staff.

Attorneys for Baldoni filed this latest lawsuit towards Full of life and Reynolds on January 16 within the Southern District of New York. The swimsuit was filed on behalf of Baldoni, in addition to producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel, disaster publicist Melissa Nathan, and Baldoni’s manufacturing firm.

“This lawsuit is a authorized motion based mostly on an amazing quantity of untampered proof detailing Blake Full of life and her staff’s duplicitous try to destroy Justin Baldoni, his staff and their respective corporations by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored info to the media,” stated Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman in a press release to People. “It’s clear based mostly on our personal all out willingness to supply all full textual content messages, emails, video footage and different documentary proof that was shared between the events in actual time, that this can be a battle she won’t win and will definitely remorse. Blake Full of life was both severely misled by her staff or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality.”

To date, Full of life and Reynolds have but to launch a press release in response to the newest authorized submitting.

Again in December 2024, earlier than the Instances article was printed, Full of life filed a grievance towards Baldoni for sexual harassment on the set of their movie, It Ends With Us, and additional alleged that Baldoni’s staff had got down to destroy her popularity by “social manipulation.” The swimsuit included an inventory of calls for Full of life made from Baldoni, together with, “no extra displaying nude movies or photos of girls to Blake, no extra point out of Baldoni’s alleged earlier ‘pornography dependancy,’ no extra discussions about sexual conquests in entrance of Blake and others, no additional mentions of solid and crew’s genitalia, no extra inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no additional point out of Blake’s useless father.”