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Blake’s Big Win: Justin Baldoni’s $400M Countersuit Tossed Out; Lively, Ryan Reynolds And NYT Declare “Total Victory”
Less than a year before Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's multi-lawsuit, multi-million dollar battle is set to go to trial, the actress just scored a big win
(L-R) Blake Lively, Justin BaldoniGetty Images Blake Lively and Ryan Reynold’s team are claiming “total victory” after a federal judge just tossed out Justin Baldoni ‘s $400 million defamation and extortion suit over what went on during the making of It Ends With Us and the subsequent alleged preemptive astroturfing smear campaign against the Another Simple Favor actress last year. While Judge Lewis Liman has permitted Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, executives and PR team of Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel to submitted another amended complaint by June 23 against Lively, Reynolds, publicist Leslie Sloan and the New York Times, his exhaustive 132-page order leaves little wiggle room. “Today’s opinion is a total victory and a complete vindication for Blake Lively, along with those that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Parties dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, including Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and The New York Times,” proclaimed lawyers Esra Hudson & Mike Gottlieb to Deadline this morning.
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