Justin Baldoni launches website with information about lawsuit against Blake Lively
Justin Baldoni has launched a website with documents related to his lawsuit against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively.
The site, titled “Lawsuit Info,” features links to two files — Baldoni’s amended complaint, which was filed Jan. 31 in a New York district court, as well as a “timeline of relevant events,” which purportedly summarizes events from January 2019 to January 2025 related to the creation of the movie “It Ends With Us.”
TODAY.com has reached out to representatives for Lively for comment on the launch of the website.
Baldoni and Lively starred in “It Ends With Us,” the 2024 film at the center of a public feud between the two actors.
Fans speculated Baldoni, who directed the film, and Lively were feuding amid the release of the movie in August 2024. Then on Dec. 20, 2024, Lively filed a sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department, setting off a series of lawsuits.
On Dec. 31, 2024, Baldoni and his publicists sued the New York Times for libel for an article published about Lively’s sexual harassment complaint. That same day, Lively filed a federal lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and his publicists, alleging she was retaliated against for reporting sexual harassment.
Baldoni subsequently sued Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist, accusing them of defamation on Jan. 16.
On Jan. 31, Baldoni filed a timeline and amended complaint, which names Lively, Reynolds, publicist Leslie Sloane, Sloane’s company Vision PR and the New York Times as “consolidated defendants.”
The amended complaint includes text messages between Lively and Baldoni, as well as between Reynolds and Baldoni. It also alleges that the New York Times may have been working on its article about Lively’s complaint for “months before” the complaint was filed.
Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement that the amended lawsuit “was a logical next step due to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light.”
“This fresh evidence corroborates what we knew all along, that due to a blind pursuit of power, Ms. Lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications,” Freedman said in the statement.
A New York Times spokesperson said in a statement, “The Baldoni/Wayfarer legal filings are rife with inaccuracies about The New York Times, including, for example, the bogus claim that The Times had early access to Ms. Lively’s state civil rights complaint.
“Mr. Baldoni’s lawyers base their erroneous claim on postings by amateur internet sleuths, who, not surprisingly, are wrong,” the spokesperson said. “The sleuths have noted that a version of the Lively state complaint published by The Times carries the date ‘December 10’ even though the complaint wasn’t filed until more than a week later. The problem: that date is generated by Google software and is unrelated to the date when The Times received it and posted it.”
TODAY.com has reached out to Lively, Reynolds and Sloane for comment on the amended complaint.
The website launch comes weeks after Freedman released behind-the-scenes footage that he argues doesn’t corroborate Lively’s allegations of sexual harassment on set. In her December legal complaint, Lively alleged that Baldoni improvised scenes of physical intimacy and crossed boundaries.
Her lawyers responded to the footage release in a statement to NBC News, claiming, “The video shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning in toward Ms. Lively, attempting to kiss her, kissing her forehead, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck, flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smells, and talking with her out of character,” Lively’s legal team said. “Every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no discussion or consent in advance, and no intimacy coordinator present. Mr. Baldoni was not only Ms. Lively’s co-star, but the director, the head of studio and Ms. Lively’s boss.”
Freedman previously said in a January interview on TODAY that his team planned “to release every single text message between the two of them,” referring to Baldoni and Lively.
“There is nothing that in any way is a concern about this entire situation from our perspective, and we want the truth to be out there,” Freedman said at the time.
A U.S. district court judge said Jan. 27 that Baldoni and Lively’s lawsuits will be joined and both cases will go to trial March 9, 2026, according to documents obtained by NBC News.
A pretrial conference is scheduled for Feb. 3.
