{"id":268617,"date":"2025-11-07T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:45:07","slug":"blake-lively-names-figure-in-sexual-harassment-retaliation-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268617\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively names figure in sexual harassment, retaliation suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Baldoni\u2019s defamation suit has died<\/a>, but the $400 million price tag he put on it was certainly eye-popping. Now Blake Lively will set down her own hefty figures. Newly unsealed court documents (via <\/a>Deadline<\/a>) reveal a request of \u201can amount not less than three times the amount of Ms. Lively\u2019s actual damages.\u201d Those damages include estimates for \u201c[lost] earnings in an amount of not less than $56,200,000, subject to expert testimony\u201d and \u201c[lost] profits in an amount of approximately $71,000,000, subject to expert testimony.\u201d Further, her suit estimates damages for \u201cpain and suffering, physical pain, and humiliation in the range of $250,000 to $400,000\u201d plus \u201creputational harm in an amount of approximately $34,000,000, subject to expert testimony.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of this adds up to significantly less than what Baldoni was looking for, but she also \u201cintends to seek damages and fees in connection with California Civil Code 47.1 and applicable anti-SLAPP laws, which are not included in the above assessment of damages.\u201d And don\u2019t forget, she\u2019s also asking to be awarded legal fees from Baldoni\u2019s now-defunct defamation case. All told, the final tally of what she\u2019s seeking from her one-time director and co-star is still a pretty penny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lively has a laundry list of high-profile potential witnesses to back her up in her case, the majority of which are her famous friends: Hugh Jackman; Emily Blunt; Gigi Hadid; the Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants gang (Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, and Amber Tamblyn), and of course, Taylor Swift (whose name Lively\u2019s camp accused Baldoni\u2019s team of dropping for publicity<\/a> in his defamation case). Presumably, these are people that could answer questions like \u201cDid Blake talk about the harassment with you as it was happening?\u201d Similarly, there are many potential witnesses named who can speak to the It Ends With Us drama from within, including Sony and Paramount execs and co-star Jenny Slate.<\/p>\n

There are also a lot of people from Baldoni\u2019s side on the potential witness list, including Scooter Braun (a noted Swift enemy and Baldoni pal) and Baldoni\u2019s lawyer Bryan Freedman. Other potential witnesses could have something to do with the alleged smear campaign, like conservative commentator Candace Owens (who has been covering the situation a lot on her YouTube channel) and Sara Nathan, who is both the New York Post\u2018s editor-at-large and the sister of crisis PR manager Melissa Nathan, who allegedly architected the alleged smear campaign. The trial for Lively\u2019s suit against Baldoni is set for March 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blake Lively doesn’t buy that Taylor Swift will be deposed for It Ends With Us lawsuit<\/a>New report details Jenny Slate’s alleged complaint on It Ends With Us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni\u2019s defamation suit has died, but the $400 million price tag he put on it was certainly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-268617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}