{"id":463207,"date":"2026-02-12T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463207\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:59:10","slug":"no-deal-as-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-settlement-talks-flounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463207\/","title":{"rendered":"No Deal As Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Settlement Talks Flounder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCourt ordered settlement talks in Blake Lively<\/a>\u2018s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni<\/a> have floundered, and the It Ends With Us<\/a> co-stars are almost certainly going to trial. <\/p>\n

\n\tAttempts to reach a deal have proven \u201cunsuccessful,\u201d Baldoni attorney Bryan Freedman<\/a> said today. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking outside Manhattan\u2019s Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse\u00a0as the first and maybe last day of a settlement conference between the parties concluded, a jury trial seemed to be back at the top of the agenda for the media savvy lawyer. To that, Freedman exclaimed he was \u201clooking forward to it,\u201d when asked Wednesday afternoon about the May 18 scheduled trial. <\/p>\n

\n\tFreedman also said that while \u201cthere\u2019s always a chance\u201d of a settlement, the litigator pessimistically noted that he didn\u2019t \u201cknow that we will\u201d when it came to resuming talks on any pre-trial deal. <\/p>\n

\n\tBoth Lively and Wayfarer Studios<\/a> co-founder Baldoni exited the courthouse around 1 p.m. PT after a closed-door session with their respective legal teams in front of Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave. Wednesday is the first occasion they have been in court at the same time since the Another Simple Favor actress filed what is now around a $200 million damages seeking suit against her IEWU co-star and director and his inner circle.<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides claims that\u00a0Baldoni repeatedly harassed her on the IEWU set, Lively also alleges Baldoni had a vicious online smear campaign launched against her in mid-2024. The most 21st century aspect of Lively\u2019s case, the accusation is that Baldoni brought crisis PR types like defendants Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel on board to rip Lively apart before the premiere of the hit movie to offset accusations he and his Wayfarer gang were worried she would make against the\u00a0Jane the Virgin\u00a0alum.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack on January 22, the lawyers argued for (Baldoni) and against (Lively) in front of Judge Lewis Liman over summary judgment in the high profile and superstar-riddled case. That hearing last month was preceded by a massive document unsealing <\/a>that revealed multitudes of emails over the matter of what went down on IEWU. Among the spicer parts were a Sony<\/a> exec calling Lively \u201ca terrorist\u201d over threats to quit the picture, and co-star Jenny Slate<\/a> calling Baldoni\u00a0\u201cthe biggest clown and the most intense narcissist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, the reference to Baldoni as a \u201cbitch\u201d by Taylor Swift<\/a>, IEWU soundtrack contributor and godmother to one of Lively and Ryan Reynolds<\/a>\u2018 kids, landed with the biggest bang.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, likely awaiting the hail Mary results of the settlement attempt that he ordered late last year<\/a>, there has been no decision yet from Judge Liman on that summary judgment or any trimming of Lively\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wayfarer side has scheduled a session in court for Thursday over the adjacent case of Jonesworks PR boss Stephanie Jones, the former chief of Jennifer Abel and Baldoni\u2019s old PR firm. It is not clear if either Lively or Baldoni, who emerged from court with his entourage and a smile on his face today, will be in attendance.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, when it comes to the Lively vs. Baldoni trial, everybody is expected to be in court in late May in front of Judge Liman and a jury. Everybody.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Blake<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tBlake Lively and Justin Baldoni<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNicole Rivelli \/ Jojo Whilden \/ Sony Pictures Releasing \/ courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Court ordered settlement talks in Blake Lively\u2018s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni have floundered, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8678,44291,88,44292,199641,8680,44293,8985,1014,4915,200757],"class_list":["post-463207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-blake-lively","tag-bryan-freedman","tag-entertainment","tag-it-ends-with-us","tag-jenny-slate","tag-justin-baldoni","tag-lively-baldoni","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-sony","tag-taylor-swift","tag-wayfarer-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}