Apparently, it ends with Judge Lewis J. Liman . On Monday, the U.S. District Court judge tossed out Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively , Ryan Reynolds , Lively’s publicist, and The New York Times in the latest development in the scorched-earth feud surrounding the making of It Ends With Us.
Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios company the option of amending his complaint to include only its claims of breach of contract and business interference against the couple. Baldoni’s team has until June 23 to file that complaint, according to the ruling obtained by Vanity Fair .The decision effectively means that Lively’s claims of sexual misconduct about Baldoni, who directed and co-starred in the film with her, and the newspaper’s December 2024 articl