Justin Baldoni’s lawsuits against Blake Lively and The New York Times have been officially thrown out of court after a judge dismissed the original claims in June.

TMZ reported on Friday, October 31, that Baldoni’s legal team did not file an appeal to Judge Lewis J. Liman’s dismissal of a countersuit filed by the It Ends With Us director that sought $400 million in damages from Lively. In June, the judge also dismissed Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for allegedly “cherry-picking” information supplied by Lively’s lawyers for its 2024 article “We Can Bury Anyone: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine” by reporters Megan Twohey, Mike McIntire and Julie Tate.

In new court documents obtained by the outlet, a final judgment was issued for the parallel lawsuits against Livel

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