Justin Baldoni has stated that a “jury must decide” The New York Times is from the hook for their involvement in his continuous legal fight against Blake Lively.
“A Pietistic Bastion of the Media Establishment, the Nyt Has been supposed to justify itself for a long time. Not here, ‘said Baldoni, 41, submitted in judicial documents on Friday, March 14 and obtained by deadlineclaiming that the newspaper “passed only reported” when publishing Lively’s complaint in December 2024 against him and his Wayfarer Production Company.
Baldoni claimed that The New York Times “Actively responsible for the truthfulness of his false story” by fully publishing Lively’s complaint. (Baldoni played in the August 2024 film It ends with us In addition to lively. He also directed the film based on the book with the same name Colleen Hoover.)
“The fair report privileged the Nyt Looking for hiding behind him, it does not protect it against liability for malicious cooperation with Lively and its cohort to publish a false and defamatory hit about the Wayfarer parties, which they wrongly throw as Schorken and they make scapegoats for the well-published media of Livy’s Misstappen, “the courts,” Misstappen, “Misstappen,”
US Weekly has contacted the teams of Baldoni and Lively for comments.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni can be seen on the set of “It Ends with Us” on January 12, 2024 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC imagesLively, 37, submitted her complaint in December 2024, claiming that she was sexually harassed on the It ends with us set. She also claimed that Baldoni and his wayfarer production company promoted a hostile working environment. The New York Times Published complaint from Lively fully after it was submitted. (Baldoni continued to deny these allegations.)
Baldoni continued to sue the newspaper for $ 250 million. The New York Times has since submitted to reject the lawsuit. Earlier this month, Judge Lewis J. Liman Admittedly, the request of the newspaper giant to pause the lawsuit while assessing their motion to dismiss. Baldoni’s latest application is in contrast to The New York Times‘Request for dismissal.
Blake Lively
Tibrina Hobson/Getty images“The press enjoys the Fair Report Privilege in the faithful pass on the content of a submitted complaint,” claim the documents. ‘But that’s not what the Nyt did; It based (albeit) his article and video on its reporters ‘thousands of pages’ of documents and explicitly credited the claims of Lively, they framed as verified by the NytThe own research. By doing this, the Nyt forfeited the Fair Report Privilege. “
Baldoni claimed that the newspaper “months of plotting” had with the Lively team, while apparently he and Wayfarer only had “hours to respond” before the story went live on the newspaper’s website.
The New York Times has since responded to a statement on Us.
“The defects in the Baldoni/Wayfarer case were made clear last week in their own legal submission when they asked the court to change another opportunity to change their complaint to make it legally sufficient,” was the statement. “We look forward to tackling the various problems in their last assignment when we submit our answer later this week.”
Together with his suit The New York TimesBaldoni has also sued Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynoldsand publicist Leslie Sloane For $ 400 million. (Sloane has since submitted to be removed from the court case. Lively and Reynolds have strongly denied Baldoni’s accusations.)
They are in court from March 2026.