{"id":379727,"date":"2026-04-03T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:25:09","slug":"judge-dismisses-majority-of-blake-livelys-claims-against-justin-baldoni-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379727\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge dismisses majority of Blake Lively\u2019s claims against Justin Baldoni \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal US<\/a> judge has thrown out the majority of Blake Lively<\/a>\u2019s claims against Justin Baldoni<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a court ruling on Thursday, judge Lewis Liman dismissed 10 of the 13 claims in Lively\u2019s lawsuit against her costar and director of the domestic violence film It Ends With Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the 10 claims that Liman threw out were Lively\u2019s claims of sexual harassment, conspiracy and defamation. Just three of the actor\u2019s claims will now be heard at trial: breach of contract, retaliation, and aiding and abetting in retaliation.<\/p>\n

This decision leaves Lively\u2019s case with a more narrow purview, with its focus limited to the actor\u2019s claims that Baldoni was behind a retaliatory campaign which shared and boosted negative stories about her online.<\/p>\n

Lively\u2019s lawyers had claimed that Baldoni was \u201cconsistently inappropriate\u201d with their client, and \u201ckissed, nuzzled and touched\u201d her without her consent. Lively accused Baldoni of sexually harassing her by making unwanted comments about her appearance and weight while filming the Colleen Hoover adaptation.<\/p>\n

Last June, Liman dismissed Lively\u2019s two claims of emotional distress against Baldoni. The same month, he threw out Baldoni\u2019s $400 million (\u20ac346 million) defamation claim against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds.<\/p>\n

Released in 2024, It Ends With Us was a global hit and grossed more than $350 million (\u20ac303 million), but was soon overshadowed by rumours of conflict between Lively and Baldoni and messy, drawn out litigation.<\/p>\n

The case has lifted the lid on Lively\u2019s private messages to other A-listers such as Taylor Swift and Ben Affleck. In unsealed text messages to Swift, Lively called Baldoni the \u201cdoofus director of my movie\u201d and asked the singer for thoughts on a rewrite of the It Ends With Us screenplay. Swift allegedly replied: \u201cI\u2019ll do anything for you!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis doesn\u2019t help either of them,\u201d former entertainment lawyer and Puck reporter Matthew Belloni told the Guardian last year of the Lively and Baldoni case. \u201cThe longer this goes on and the more mud that\u2019s slung at each other, it really hurts both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The narrowed case is set to go to trial in May after mediation failed last month. \u2013 The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal US judge has thrown out the majority of Blake Lively\u2019s claims against Justin Baldoni. In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[526,93,61,60,529,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-379727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-justin-baldoni","13":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}