{"id":306875,"date":"2026-07-27T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306875\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:49:20","slug":"justin-baldoni-to-pay-more-than-170k-to-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306875\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni to Pay More Than $170K to New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Baldoni<\/a>\u2019s Wayfarer Studios has been ordered to pay The New York Times\u2019 legal fees after its lawsuit against the publication was dismissed.<\/p>\n

According to court documents obtained by TMZ<\/a>, Wayfarer Studios LLC has been ordered to pay $171,616 to the news outlet.<\/p>\n

Us has reached out to Baldoni\u2019s team for comment.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, The New York Times initially reported on Blake Lively\u2019s complaint against Baldoni, her It Ends With Us<\/a> costar and director.<\/p>\n

Lively, 38, accused Baldoni of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign against her.<\/p>\n

Baldoni, 42, denied all allegations and subsequently filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and a $250 million lawsuit<\/a> against The New York Times.<\/p>\n

Baldoni and his associates alleged that The New York Times \u201ccherry-picked\u201d information to mislead readers about his dispute with Lively in its December 2024 article titled \u201cWe Can Bury Anyone: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June 2025, however, Judge Lewis J. Liman dismissed Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit against The New York Times and Lively.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are grateful to the court for seeing the lawsuit for what it was: a meritless attempt to stifle honest reporting,\u201d a spokesperson for The New York Times said in a statement<\/a> to Us at the time. \u201cOur journalists went out and covered carefully and fairly a story of public importance, and the court recognized that the law is designed to protect just that sort of journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement continued: \u201cWe will continue to stand up in court for our journalism and for our journalists when their work comes under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, Baldoni and Lively reached a settlement<\/a> in their own It Ends With Us legal battle, just weeks before they were set to go to trial. A source told Us at the time that money was not exchanged<\/a> between Lively and Baldoni.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end product \u2014 the movie It Ends With Us \u2014 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 \u2014 and all survivors \u2014 is a goal that we stand behind,\u201d Lively and Baldoni said in a statement to Us via their attorneys on May 4. \u201cWe acknowledge the process presented challenges and recognize concerns raised by Ms. Lively deserved to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Related: Blake Lively Reacts After Most of Her Claims Against Baldoni Are Dismissed<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBlake Lively\u2019s team has reacted after a U.S. District Court judge ruled to throw out 10 of 13 claims against her It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni amid their ongoing legal battle. \u201cThis case has always been and will remain focused on the devasting retaliation and the extraordinary steps the defendants took [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

The statement continued, \u201cWe 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

Settlement aside, the It Ends With Us drama doesn\u2019t appear to be officially over. In June, Lively requested that Baldoni pay approximately $8 million in legal fees.<\/p>\n

Baldoni\u2019s lawyers, however, slammed the request, claiming via court documents<\/a>, \u201cLively fails to meet her burden to present credible evidence showing that the fees and costs she seeks to recover are reasonable and, accordingly, her fee motion should be denied in its entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni\u2019s Wayfarer Studios has been ordered to pay The New York Times\u2019 legal fees after its lawsuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191,34282,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-306875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-scandals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}