It still doesn’t stop here.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds revealed that they would move to reject the defamation trial of Justin Baldoni, informing a federal decision judge on Thursday, Variety reported.
Lively, 37, continued Baldoni, 41 – who is also his co -star and director of “IT Ends With Us” – for 250 million dollars, saying that he had sexually harassed it during the shooting and launched A defamation campaign when she talked about her alleged treatment. Baldoni denied his accusations.
He and his publicists have chosen $ 400 million, alleging that she had disseminated them. They also alleged that Lively and her famous husband, Ryan Reynolds, put pressure on the high power talent agency WME to abandon Baldoni as a customer – a WME accusation denied.
The former “Gossip Girl” and the Reynolds legal team would have filed this week the opinion of the opinion, according to the ordinance of judge Lewis Liman, in which he informed them that he planned to “consolidate” the separate prosecution.
The judge will later establish a deadline for filing the request.
“The Lively-Reynolds parties intend to move to reject the complaint of the complainants,” revealed the lawyer for the Hollywood Power couple, Michael J. Gottlieb in the alleged file.
The advertising of Lively, Leslie Sloane, would have filed a similar opinion on Wednesday because she too was appointed defendant in the Baldoni trial.
Lawyers on both sides would have indicated that they had no objection to the merger of the two federal cases into a single procedure.
The position contacted Lively and Baldoni lawyers to comment.
The director’s actress and lawyers are due to the court on Monday, February 3, marking their first hearing concerning the drama “it ends with us”.
During the hearing, the alleged extrajudicial conduct of the Baldoni lawyer, Bryan Freedman, would occupy the front of the stage after the lawyers of Lively said that he was making detrimental comments in the media and, in turn, pointed out a jury whirlwind.
However, Freedman retaliated, to the idea that he had the right to publicly defend his client after Lively and an alleged “attempt by his team to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating information on the seriously edited, not supported, new and tampered with the media in the media. “”
The Baldoni legal team would have revealed Thursday evening that they would like the Lively deposit to occur as soon as possible, saying that the starlet “it ends with us” said that she would refuse to let Freedman do the questioning due to “Unspecified declarations made by Mr..
“We do not know any situation which would justify the registered part of having the choice in which the lawyer takes his deposition,” would have another Baldoni lawyers, Kevin Fritz, would have informed the judge. “Parties to disputes simply do not have the right to dictate which lawyers of their opponents may or may not take their deposit or make another aspect of the case of the opposing party.”
He asks that the problem of deposits be solved during the hearing on Monday.
The endless legal battle recently obtained a date of trial.
Lively and Baldoni headed for the trial on March 9, 2026.
