{"id":122489,"date":"2025-11-07T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122489\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:47:09","slug":"gigi-hadid-hugh-jackman-and-emily-blunt-among-witnesses-in-lively-baldoni-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122489\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Hadid, Hugh Jackman and Emily Blunt among witnesses in Lively-Baldoni lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Reports that followed the leak of Lively\u2019s texts referred to Swift as \u201cone of her dragons\u201d. However, the former best friends reportedly no longer have contact with one another, last speaking in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have reportedly fallen out over the legal battle. Photo \/ Gotham, GC Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have reportedly fallen out over the legal battle. Photo \/ Gotham, GC Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">More than 100 people are named on the extensive list, though lawyer Gregory Doll told People it is unlikely all of them will be called for the trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cParties are notoriously over-inclusive when they list witnesses in their initial disclosures because they don\u2019t want to lose the right to call someone at trial by not listing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Lively and Baldoni have been engaged in a legal battle since December last year, when speculation about a feud between the former co-stars came to a head after the New York Times published a piece detailing the former\u2019s allegations against the director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">The Gossip Girl star accused Baldoni of sexually harassing her on the set of their film It Ends With Us and subsequently engaging in a smear campaign against her to bury the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Baldoni responded by suing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for defamation and extortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">His countersuit, valued at nearly US$400 million ($710m), was formally thrown out this week, while Lively\u2019s US$160m trial is set to be heard in New York next March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports that followed the leak of Lively\u2019s texts referred to Swift as \u201cone of her dragons\u201d. However, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3471,95,85777,6726,5432,54174,31123,430,21982,156,2550,85772,28749,55189,85775,78,85773,17468,7324,6712,85776,85774,130,111,139,69,62038,28251],"class_list":["post-122489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-among","tag-and","tag-baldoni","tag-become","tag-between","tag-blake","tag-blunt","tag-celebrities","tag-emily","tag-entertainment","tag-even","tag-gigi","tag-hadid","tag-hugh","tag-imbroglio","tag-in","tag-jackman","tag-justin","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-lively","tag-livelybaldoni","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-starstudded","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}