Justin Baldoni has $400m defamation lawsuit dismissed by choose in Blake Full of life case

Decide Lewis Liman has dismissed Justin Baldoni’s countersuit in opposition to Blake Full of life.

The actor introduced the $400 million (£295 million) lawsuit after his It Ends With Us co-star filed a authorized criticism in opposition to him final 12 months.

Filed by Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events in opposition to Full of life and her husband Ryan Reynolds, it alleged extortion and defamation. The New York judged additionally granted the motions to toss out his $250 million (£184 million) defamation lawsuit in opposition to The New York Instances.

In December 2024, the Gossip Lady actor filed a go well with in opposition to Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios, alleging she was sexually harassed on the set of the summer season movie. Amongst different allegations, she alleged he tried a ‘social manipulation’ marketing campaign’.

Full of life shared the small print of a lot of this in an article for the New York Instances, printed when her lawsuit was filed.

In an announcement obtained by PEOPLE at present (9 June), Full of life’s attorneys, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, stated: “Immediately’s opinion is a complete victory and an entire vindication for Blake Full of life, together with people who Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, together with Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and The New York Instances.

“As now we have stated from day one, this ‘$400 million’ lawsuit was a sham, and the Court docket noticed proper via it,” they added. “We stay up for the following spherical, which is in search of attorneys’ charges, treble damages and punitive damages in opposition to Baldoni, [Steve] Sarowitz, [Melissa] Nathan and the opposite Wayfarer Events who perpetrated this abusive litigation.”

LADbible has contacted Baldoni’s group for remark.

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