Justin Baldoni‘s production company Wayfarer Studios LLC was sued by The New York Times in September 2025 over a dismissed defamation case against the publication.

Baldoni and Wayfarer originally sued The New York Times for $250 million in December 2024 over accusations that the outlet libeled the actor in its coverage of Blake Lively’s sexual harassment suit against her It Ends With Us director and costar.

Baldoni and his associates alleged that The New York Times “cherry-picked” information to mislead readers about his dispute with Lively in its December 2024 article “We Can Bury Anyone: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.” The New York Times has consistently stood behind its reporting.

A significant legal setback for Baldoni and Wayfarer took place in June 2025 when Judge Lewis J. Lima

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