The ongoing Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawsuit continues after a sit-down with the two parties on July 31. Lively’s team claims that Bryan Freedman (Baldoni’s lead lawyer) intentionally leaked details from the sit-down to the public in order to create more discourse around the case. “In rushing to file on the public docket the entirety of the 292-page transcript on the day they received it, with no plausible legal reason to do so, the Wayfarer Defendants and their counsel have proved Ms. Lively’s point,” said Esra Hudson in a letter to Judge Lewis Liman.
“The narrative created was that Ms. Lively needed a large contingent of people with her to testify, while misleadingly suggesting that only Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Freedman were present for the deposition on their side. The reality is that Ms. Lively testified across the table from Mr. Baldoni, Jamey Heath, Steve Sarowitz, Melissa Nathan, and Jennifer Abel, all of whom attended this deposition in person, as well as eight attorneys representing the Wayfarer and Wallace Parties, two of whom questioned her,” continued Hudson in the letter. Details leaked from the meeting stated that Lively was present alongside her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and that Justin Baldoni was present for the meeting. It also detailed some specifics of what Lively’s team did and said. Hudson continued by writing, “Consistent with their goal of creating a media circus around Ms. Lively’s deposition, it also appears that the Wayfarer Defendants immediately leaked details from the deposition to the tabloid media.”
In other news from the case, Justin Baldoni’s insurer recently sued him, claiming their policies do not cover the Blake Lively lawsuit. The firm, Harco National Insurance Company, claims that the sexual harassment claims from Blake Lively were issued during the production and post-production of It Ends With Us, which would have been outside the parameters of their agreement. The lawsuit reads, “Despite the acknowledged pre-July 2023 complaints by Lively and others, Wayfarer’s July 2023 Application for the 2023 Policy includes a letter from Wayfarer which warrants that no person or entity for whom the insurance is intended has any knowledge or information of any act, error, omission, fact or circumstance which may give rise to a claim which may fall within the Employment Practices Liability coverage if issued by Harco (the “2023 Warranty”).”
This is yet another piece of a hopelessly scrambled puzzle that is the Lively-Baldoni case, one which will certainly become popular again once the trial begins on March 9, 2026.
