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Justin Baldoni
Greg Doherty/Getty ImagesJustin Baldoni is leaning on his loved ones amid his ongoing legal battle against Blake Lively.
“We’re grateful to be with family, man,” Baldoni, 40, told photographers Friday, Jan. 17, at Los Angeles International Airport in a video obtained by TMZ. “We have amazing friends, family and faith.
Baldoni shares daughter Maiya (9) and son Maxwell (7) with his wife. Emily. According to photos released by TMZ, Baldoni was joined by his offspring on Friday.
The day before, reports emerged that Baldoni’s name was Lively, 37, in a $400 million lawsuit. In filing, obtained OurBaldoni’s legal team argued that Lively was “determined to make Baldoni the real villain in her story” to disguise her alleged “tone deaf” promotion of the film.
UPDATE 1/16/25 at 12:43pm ET: Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios filed a $400 million lawsuit on Thursday, January 16th against It End With Us actress Blake Lively and her publicist Leslie Sloane. In the 179-page filing, according to Us Weekly , Baldoni claimed that Lively was “determined” to make him a “real-life villain.” in her story.” (…)
Baldoni directed and starred in 2024 It ends with usadaptation Colleen Hoovera novel about an abusive relationship. Lively also starred in the film, portraying the lead character Lily Bloom and serving as an executive producer. (Baldoni played Lily’s husband, Ryle Kincaid.)
Months after the film premiered in August 2024, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and fostering a “hostile work environment”. She also claimed in her December 2024 lawsuit that Baldoni attempted to coordinate a concerted campaign to destroy her reputation.
“This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of unaltered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team. duplicate attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by spreading grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and falsified information to the media,” Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman he said in a statement Our on Thursday, January 16. “Based on our own willingness to provide all of the complete text messages, emails, video and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, it is clear that this is a battle he will not win and will certainly regret. Blake Lively has either been seriously misled by her team or has deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the truth.”
Freedman continued, “Ms. Lively will never again be allowed to continue to exploit real victims of real harassment just to gain her personal reputation at the expense of the powerless. Let’s not forget, Ms. Lively and her team they tried to destroy reputations and livelihoods for hideously selfish reasons through their own dangerous manipulation of the media before they take any real legal action. We know the truth and now the public knows it too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide, the documents don’t lie.”
Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit against The New York Times has shed even more light on the apparent creative differences between him and It Ends With Us actress Blake Lively. Baldoni, 40, is suing The Times for $250 million, accusing him of defamation and invasion of privacy in a false light over reports that Lively is suing him for sexual (…)
Live, through a spokesperson, he denied the charges in the statement.
“This latest lawsuit by Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their associates is another chapter in the abuser’s playbook. This is the age-old story: A woman comes forward with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the abuser tries to turn the tables on the victim,” Lively’s lawyers said. Our in the statement. “The experts call this DARVO. Refuse. Attack. Convert the victim to the perpetrator. Wayfarer decided to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to issue media statements, launch frivolous lawsuits, and threaten lawsuits to overwhelm the public’s ability to understand that what they were doing was retaliation for sexual harassment allegations.
Lively’s lawyers further claimed that Baldwin’s camp was “trying to push the story” by falsely claiming that she had taken over the production and alienated It ends with us cast from Baldoni.
“The evidence will show that the actors and others had their own negative experiences with Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer,” Lively’s statement continued. “The evidence will also show that Sony asked Ms. Lively to oversee the editing of the Sony film, which was then picked up for distribution and was a huge success. Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she wanted it, it’s her fault. Their reasoning for why this happened to her: look at what she was wearing. In short, while the victim focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the victim. The strategy of attacking the woman is desperate, does not rebut the evidence in Ms Lively’s complaint and will fail.’
Baldoni’s team did not respond to Lively’s response. Our asked for comment.
