Justin Baldoni’s $400M lawsuit against Blake Lively tossed

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A New York judge has put an end to Justin Baldoni's $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and New York Times.

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After Lively accused her It ends with us The director and co-star of a film alleging sexual harassment on the set of the 2024 film, Baldoni, 41, filed a $400 million countersuit against the actress and her husband, accusing the couple of trying to smear him and other cast members with false allegations of sexual and other harassment.

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“This is a case where two of the most powerful stars in the world used their enormous power to steal an entire movie right out of the hands of its director and production studio,” suit read. “Then, when Lively and Reynolds' efforts failed to bring them the recognition they felt they so richly deserved, they turned their ire on their chosen scapegoat.”

Baldoni also sued Time for $250 million, alleging that the newspaper coordinated with Lively to smear him when it published a story with the headline “We can bury anyone: inside the Hollywood smear machine.»

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Shortly after he filed the lawsuit, Lively called Baldoni's lawsuit “another chapter in the history of abusers.”

“This is a long-standing story: a woman comes forward with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the rapist tries to turn the situation around with the victim,” her lawyers said in a statement to Us weekly. “This is what experts call DARVO. Denial. Attack. Reverse victimization. Wayfarer has decided to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to release statements to the media, launch frivolous lawsuits and threaten litigation to deny the public the opportunity to understand that what they are doing is retaliation against allegations of sexual harassment.”

The lawsuit officially ends a few months after the first dismissal

Back in June, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Lyman dismissed Baldoni's lawsuit for the first time, saying he couldn't sue Lively for defamation over the allegations in her lawsuit because the allegations made in the lawsuit couldn't be classified as libel. Liman also rejected Baldoni's claims that Lively stole creative control over the film.

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Time were let off the hook because Baldoni did not prove that the newspaper “acted with actual malice.”

“As we have stated from day one, this $400 million lawsuit was a sham, and the Court saw right through it.” Lively's lawyers said at the timecalling the decision “a complete victory and a complete vindication.”

The judge, however, said Baldoni could have reconsidered the suit if he wanted to pursue different claims, but he did not do so, according to the latest court documents obtained by PEOPLE, USA today and other media.

After his initial challenge was rejected in June, Lively celebrated Baldoni's defeat.

“Like so many others, I have felt the pain of the punitive lawsuit, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us,” the 38-year-old actress wrote on her Instagram Stories, according to the post. PEOPLE. “Although the lawsuit against me was dismissed, many do not have the resources to fight back.”

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Lively then vowed to “stand up for every woman's right to have a voice in protecting herself.”

The legal battle is far from over

Lively's lawsuit is still ongoing and has been given a March 2026 trial date. Gossip ready to testify.

“The last time to tell the plaintiff's story is at trial,” Lively's lawyer said. PEOPLE. “We expect this to be the case here. [with Lively]. So we certainly expect her to testify at trial. Of course she will testify.

Lively won't be the only one speaking out against Baldoni.

“There are people who have witnessed or experienced misconduct that is relevant to Ms. Lively's allegations,” her lawyer Mike Gottlieb said in May of this year. “We expect that their testimony, especially about what happened on set, will be corroborated by testimony from living witnesses.”

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In addition to the accusation of Jane the Virgin The star is trying to destroy her reputation, with Lively's lawsuit alleging that Baldoni “violated on-set intimacy protocols by improvising kisses in scenes without the presence of an intimacy coordinator and attempting to add sex or nude scenes that she deemed unnecessary.” Washington Post reported.

According to DiversityLively claims that while the couple was filming a “slow dance sequence for a montage in which not a single sound was recorded,” Baldoni “leaned forward and slowly ran his lips from her ear to her neck, saying, 'This smells so good.'

But Baldoni and his legal representatives are ready to defend against her claims. Earlier this year they launched website called Claim Information which contained documents related to his legal battle with Lively.

In one post shared PEOPLEA hotly debated rewrite of one scene allegedly wrote: “If you knew me (personally) longer, you'd get a sense of how flirtatious and delicious it would be to play fetch. It's my love language. Spicy and playfully bold, never too toothy…”

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