{"id":648024,"date":"2026-05-04T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648024\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:45:13","slug":"justin-baldoni-and-blake-lively-settle-legal-war-over-it-ends-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648024\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively Settle Legal War Over ‘It Ends with Us’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Baldoni V. Blake Lively
\n It Ends With Settlement<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n May 4, 2026
\n 1:19 PM PDT
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\n Updated
\n May 4, 2026
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It ends with a settlement … Justin Baldoni<\/a> and Blake Lively<\/a> have finally ended their legal war … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

Our sources tell us Justin and Blake have agreed to a settlement.<\/p>\n

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Both sides released a statement … “The end product — the movie ‘It Ends With Us’ — is a source of pride to all of us who worked to bring it to life. Raising awareness, and making a meaningful impact in the lives of domestic violence survivors — and all survivors — is a goal that we stand behind.”<\/p>\n

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The statement goes on … “We acknowledge the process presented challenges and recognize concerns raised by Ms. Lively deserved to be heard. We remain firmly committed to workplaces free of improprieties and unproductive environments.”<\/p>\n

It ends with this … “It is our sincere hope that this brings closure and allows all involved to move forward constructively and in peace, including a respectful environment online.”<\/p>\n

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Interestingly … there is no direct apology from Baldoni. As you know, the judge dismissed most of Lively’s claims<\/a>, but the retaliation claim survived judicial scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Lively claimed she’d lost $161 million<\/a> as a result of what she said was a smear campaign engineered by Baldoni and Co. It appears no money is changing hands.<\/p>\n

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This is a last-minute move before the trial was supposed to begin — just 2 weeks from now — and most legal experts say there would have been no winners. Both Justin and Blake would have been raked over the coals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni V. Blake Lively It Ends With Settlement Published May 4, 2026 1:19 PM PDT | Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[879,49,48,361,75,12891,44,12892],"class_list":["post-648024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648024","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=648024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}