{"id":279852,"date":"2026-02-12T04:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279852\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:34:06","slug":"settlement-talks-break-down-in-blake-livelys-lawsuit-against-justin-baldoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279852\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlement talks break down in Blake Lively&#8217;s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court-ordered settlement talks in Blake Lively&#8217;s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni have floundered.<br \/>The It Ends With Us co-stars are now almost certainly going to trial, as attempts to reach a deal have proven &#8220;unsuccessful,&#8221; Baldoni&#8217;s lawyer Bryan Freedman said today. <br \/>Speaking outside the Manhattan courthouse as the first &#8211; and maybe last &#8211; day of a settlement conference between the parties concluded, Freedman was asked if a jury trial was back at the top of the agenda, to which he exclaimed he was &#8220;looking forward to it&#8221;. <br \/>Both Lively and Wayfarer Studios co-founder Baldoni exited the courthouse around 1 pm on Wednesday local time after a closed-door session with their respective legal teams. <br \/>This was the first occasion they have been in the same court at the same time since the Glee actor filed her $550 million (\u00a3404 million) suit against her co-star director.<br \/>Besides claims that Baldoni repeatedly harassed her on the It Ends With Us set, Lively also alleges Baldoni had a vicious online smear campaign orchestrated against her in mid-2024. Lively&#8217;s accusation is that Baldoni brought together a crisis PR crew to sully her reputation before the premiere of the hit movie.<br \/>In January, a mass document unsealing revealed a multitude of emails over the matter. Among the more dramatic discoveries were a Sony exec calling Lively &#8220;a terrorist&#8221; over threats to quit the film, and co-star Jenny Slate calling Baldoni &#8220;the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Court-ordered settlement talks in Blake Lively&#8217;s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni have floundered.The It Ends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3780,156880,430,156,3783,111,139,69,156826,156881,14821],"class_list":["post-279852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-blake-lively","tag-bryan-freedman","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-justin-baldoni","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-retaliation-lawsuit","tag-settlement-conference","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279852","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=279852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}