{"id":648671,"date":"2026-05-05T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:12:10","slug":"blake-lively-at-met-gala-hours-after-settling-justin-baldoni-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648671\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively at Met Gala Hours After Settling Justin Baldoni Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/blake-lively\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blake-lively\" data-tag=\"blake-lively\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lively<\/a> made an appearance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/met-gala\/\" id=\"auto-tag_met-gala\" data-tag=\"met-gala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met Gala<\/a> on Monday night, after <a data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-settle-lawsuit-1236737117\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-settle-lawsuit-1236737117\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news of her settlement with Justin Baldoni<\/a> went live earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Lively walked the carpet at the starry New York event in an archival 2006 Atelier Versace multi-colored and layered pastel gown, inspired by Venetian Rococo paintings and Baroque churches. She has previously attended the prestigious benefit gala, and made her return after four years for the 2026 \u201cCostume Art\u201d edition, hours after announcing her lengthy legal battle with Baldoni would not go to trial. <\/p>\n<p>Lively first accused Baldoni, her director and co-star on the film \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d of sexual harassment in 2024, alleging that he retaliated with a digital smear campaign. Baldoni responded with a lengthy defamation lawsuit in federal court and also went after the New York Times for posting messages with his publicists in which they orchestrated a smear campaign against Lively. Both of his cases were thrown out in the early stages.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Judge Lewis Liman threw out 10 of Lively\u2019s 13 civil claims, including all claims for harassment. The ruling left three claims \u2014 retaliation, aiding and abetting retaliation, and breach of contract \u2014 to be decided by a jury.<\/p>\n<p>The pair released a joint statement on Monday, saying, \u201cThe end product \u2013 the movie \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 \u2013 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 \u2013 and all survivors \u2013 is a goal that we stand behind. 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. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Lively made an appearance at the Met Gala on Monday night, after news of her settlement with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10682,49,48,75,10683,105275],"class_list":["post-648671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-blake-lively","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-justin-baldoni","tag-met-gala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648671","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=648671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}