{"id":634882,"date":"2026-04-28T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:41:12","slug":"justin-baldonis-lawyers-say-blake-livelys-businesses-failed-because-shes-unlikable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634882\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni’s Lawyers Say Blake Lively’s Businesses Failed Because She’s Unlikable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Baldoni
\n Blake Lively’s Brand Busts Aren’t My Fault …
\n She’s Bad at Business!!!<\/p>\n

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\n April 28, 2026
\n 9:14 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n April 28, 2026
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Justin Baldoni<\/a>‘s lawyers say he and the other defendants in Blake Lively<\/a>‘s lawsuit can’t be held responsible for her businesses going belly up … because she’s not a marvelous mogul.<\/p>\n

The two sides were in court Tuesday to discuss pretrial issues … and, damages came up –specifically, Lively arguing Baldoni and others damaged her public reputation, which caused her brands to take a beating.<\/p>\n

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Baldoni’s lawyers disagreed, firing back that Blake has a poor track record of running businesses … and companies like her liquor brand Betty Buzz failed because people just don’t like her.<\/p>\n

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They even brought up an example of Lively mocking Kate Middleton<\/a>‘s photoshop drama … something she alter apologized for when it came out the Princess of Wales had cancer. Baldoni’s team called this “bullying” of Middleton and said it also damaged Lively’s image.<\/p>\n

Baldoni’s team also claims that the $132 million Lively says she would’ve earned over the next five years isn’t a fair number … because Lively only works sporadically, and she’d basically have to work around the clock to meet that dollar amount.<\/p>\n

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Lively’s lawyers argue she might have made a sequel to “It Ends With Us” — her smash hit with Baldoni, which started all this legal drama — but his team blasts that assertion … pointing out Sony Pictures exec Andrea Giannetti referred to Lively as a “f***ing terrorist.”<\/p>\n

The harsh rhetoric proves the studio wasn’t likely to work with her on a sequel, Baldoni’s side adds.<\/p>\n

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As for Blake … her team says the businesses might have taken off if Baldoni hadn’t allegedly retaliated against her and completely derailed businesses like her haircare brand, Blake Brown.<\/p>\n

Blake and Justin’s trial is set to begin in just a couple weeks … but, it looks like the tension is still heating up in the courtroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni Blake Lively’s Brand Busts Aren’t My Fault … She’s Bad at Business!!! Published April 28, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-634882","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\/634882","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=634882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}