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Ryan Reynolds Slams Justin Baldoni’s $400M “Gossip Rag” Suit As ‘Deadpool’ Star Moves For Dismissal
Ryan Reynolds Slams Justin Baldoni's "Gossip Rag" Suit, Moves To Have It Tossed
Citing the new-ish filing from the Bryan Freedman represented Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studio, CEO Jamey Heath, financier Sarowitz, and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel as more a “gossip rag” full of “thin-skinned outrage” than legal document, Reynolds’ Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson-led legal team want their client to be able to walk away before this sprawling “feud between publicists,” as Judge Lewis J. Liman recently called it, goes to trial in May 2026. With the single exception of a disparaging remark Reynolds is said to have made about Baldoni at one point, today’s filing really comes down to an assertion on the Canadian actor’s part that there is no there there. It is, in essence, a burn book filled with grievances attempting to shame Mr. Reynolds for being the kind of man who is “confident enough to listen” to the woman in his life and to hold her “anguish and actually” stand with her.3 The FAC is, in sum, a textbook retaliatory SLAPP suit, and it should be dismissed with prejudice.
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