The Legal Battle Between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively: A Detailed Look
The attorney for Justin Baldoni has made documents related to the American actor and director’s legal dispute with actress Blake Lively available on a public website.
The website went live on Saturday, two days before Monday’s first court hearing in the widely reported case.
Costarring in the 2024 movie “It Ends With Us,” Baldoni and Lively have been at odds over Lively’s claims of sexual harassment against Baldoni and the ensuing professional reprisal.
Baldoni has refuted Lively’s accusations that she took over the film’s creative direction and that she and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, attempted to damage his name.
The website now includes two publicly available documents that have previously been submitted to the court: a 168-page “timeline of relevant events” that was submitted as an addendum to Baldoni’s modified $400 million complaint against Lively and Reynolds.
Attorney Freedman told CNN in a statement on Saturday that “the decision to amend our lawsuit was a logical next step due to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light.”
According to Baldoni’s team, they have “nothing to hide.”
Baldoni’s representatives released video from a sequence shot for “It Ends With Us” last month, claiming it disproved some of Lively’s assertions.
Nonetheless, according to her attorneys, “every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her complaint.”
To “ensure the proceedings in this court are not prejudiced by counsel’s conduct outside of the courtroom,” Lively’s team has asked for media limitations against Freedman, according to a letter sent to the judge last month by her attorneys. They’ve also said they’ll try to have Baldoni’s case against them dismissed.
For the case’s hearing, attorneys from both sides are expected in New York court on Monday. According to someone with knowledge of the planned proceeding, neither Baldoni nor Lively are anticipated to be present.
The trial is scheduled to take place in March 2026.
