{"id":258175,"date":"2025-11-02T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:29:10","slug":"justin-baldonis-400-million-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-officially-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258175\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni\u2019s $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds officially dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published on: Nov 02, 2025 03:05 pm IST <\/p>\n

Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds has been dismissed after he missed a court deadline to amend his claims.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Director and actor Justin Baldoni<\/a>\u2019s $400 million extortion and defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively<\/a> and Ryan Reynolds<\/a> has officially been dismissed after he failed to meet a court-imposed deadline to amend his claims.<\/p>\n

\"The The case between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni began making headlines in December 2024. Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit dismissed<\/p>\n

According to a news report by Complex<\/a>, in a ruling signed on October 31, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman of the Southern District of New York confirmed that Justin and his company, Wayfarer Studios, missed their opportunity to revive the case, bringing their legal battle to an end. The court noted that the plaintiffs \u201cfailed to respond\u201d to an October 17 order asking why a final judgment shouldn\u2019t be entered, prompting the case\u2019s formal closure.<\/p>\n

This marks the latest setback for Justin, whose complaint was first thrown out in June 2025 after Judge Liman determined that his defamation allegations lacked merit. The court found that statements cited in Justin’s suit, many drawn from Blake’s sexual harassment complaint and a New York Times report, were legally protected under litigation and journalistic privilege.<\/p>\n

While this decision ends Justin’s defamation and extortion claims against Blake, Ryan, and The New York Times, he may still appeal once the court addresses motions tied to Lively\u2019s request to recover legal fees.<\/p>\n

About Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s lawsuit<\/p>\n

Justin initially filed the high-profile lawsuit in January 2025, calling it a \u201ccounterattack\u201d in what has become one of Hollywood\u2019s most contentious legal showdowns.<\/p>\n

The move came a month after Blake sued Justin and Wayfarer Studios, accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of their film It Ends With Us, which Justin directed and co-starred in.<\/p>\n

Blake’s filing described \u201cdisturbing\u201d on-set behaviour, including an incident where Justin allegedly \u201cleaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear down her neck,\u201d telling her, \u201cIt smells so good.\u201d She also claimed he insisted on including explicit scenes and made inappropriate comments about her marriage to Ryan.<\/p>\n

\"\" Stay connected with all the glitz and glam from the world of entertainment<\/a>, right from Hollywood<\/a> gossip to Bollywood<\/a> chit chat. Also don’t miss out on music buzz, anime scoops and OTT<\/a> action. Stay connected with all the glitz and glam from the world of entertainment<\/a>, right from Hollywood<\/a> gossip to Bollywood<\/a> chit chat. Also don’t miss out on music buzz, anime scoops and OTT<\/a> action. News<\/a> \/ Entertainment<\/a> \/ Hollywood<\/a> \/ Justin Baldoni\u2019s $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds officially dismissed <\/p>\n

See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on: Nov 02, 2025 03:05 pm IST Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,26705,447,152072,134,26706,2088,32055],"class_list":{"0":"post-258175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-blake-lively","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-defamation-lawsuit","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-justin-baldoni","15":"tag-ryan-reynolds","16":"tag-sexual-harassment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}