Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s legal spat may not be not fully resolved - BERITAJA

A national judge connected Thursday signed disconnected connected the colony betwixt Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni successful their long-running ineligible dispute. But it appears the “It Ends With Us” saga isn’t complete conscionable yet.

“The parties person afloat and yet resolved each claims successful the consolidated action, isolated from one,” Lively’s lead lawyer Michael Gottlieb wrote successful a missive revenge successful Manhattan tribunal connected Thursday.

An exemption successful a announcement of settlement, which was revenge by some parties, states that Lively is seeking ineligible fees from Baldoni and his partners complete a abstracted related ineligible matter.

Baldoni’s attorneys based on successful a ineligible filing that those penalties, if granted, could beryllium “draconian.”

Lively first accused Baldoni of intersexual harassment during the accumulation of the 2024 movie “It Ends With Us,” which he co-starred successful and directed. Lively has besides alleged that Baldoni’s accumulation company, Wayfarer Studios, retaliated against her aft she complained about allegations of misconduct connected the group of the film.

Baldoni vehemently denied Lively’s claims.

In January 2025, Baldoni countersued Lively and her husband, “Deadpool” character Ryan Reynolds, alleging defamation and extortion. In the suit, revenge successful U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, he based on that Lively and Reynolds tried to wreck his estimation and accused her of utilizing her grievances arsenic a measurement to “seize control” of the movie.

Baldoni besides brought a defamation suit against The New York Times successful Los Angeles County Superior Court complete an article headlined: “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.”

U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman tossed retired some suits past year.

In April, Liman besides dismissed about of Lively’s claims against Baldoni, including harassment, defamation and conspiracy. He allowed 3 of her claims to proceed to trial, including breach of statement and retaliation.

The 2 stars were headed to a May 18 tribunal day earlier they announced a colony Monday.

Terms of the colony were not disclosed. A root acquainted pinch the matter confirmed to Beritaja that nary money changed hands.

Now, Lively’s squad is seeking ineligible fees and damages from Baldoni’s broadside related to Baldoni’s since-dismissed countersuit.

In a connection issued connected Thursday, Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, Lively’s attorneys, described the colony arsenic “a resounding victory” for their client.

“From time 1 Blake Lively’s ngo was clear: expose and clasp accountable those who weaponize smear campaigns and retaliatory lawsuits to intimidate and soundlessness survivors,” they said. “That ngo continues.”

When asked about the connection from Lively’s team, an lawyer for Baldoni described the colony arsenic “a triumph and full triumph for the Wayfarer parties.”

“In our view, they settled because they knew they were going to suffer successful court,” Bryan Freedman said. “All that remains is simply a pending petition for fees based connected a very constrictive rumor that has been pinch the tribunal since September 2025.”