Justin Baldoni has a front-row seat for Blake Full of life's deposition in her It Ends With Us lawsuit in opposition to her director and costar, Us Weekly can verify.
A supply informed Us on Thursday, July 31, that Baldoni, 41, is “within the room” for the deposition, which is going down in New York Metropolis. (TMZ was first to report the information.)
Full of life's deposition was initially scheduled for July 17; nonetheless, Us confirmed that the date was postponed to Thursday. In keeping with courtroom docs obtained by Us, each Full of life, 37, and Baldoni's groups agreed to the change after Jed Wallace, a social media guru, was dismissed from the case for jurisdictional causes.
On the time, a spokesperson for Full of life informed Us in an announcement, “Ms. Full of life respects the Court docket's determination, which has nothing to do with the deserves of her allegations about Mr. Wallace's position within the smear marketing campaign and relates solely to the procedural query of whether or not he's topic to jurisdiction in New York or elsewhere. We presently are evaluating our quite a few choices for holding Mr. Wallace accountable for the pivotal position he served within the retaliatory effort that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events paid him no less than tens of 1000's of {dollars} a month to carry out.”
Baldoni's crew, in the meantime, beforehand claimed that Full of life was making an attempt to make use of her “movie star standing” to manage the deposition.
“Full of life is a plaintiff who has hurled critical allegations of misconduct in opposition to the Wayfarer Events,” a letter obtained by Entertainment Weekly earlier this month learn. “Like all defendants, the Wayfarer Events are entitled to depose Full of life to develop proof essential to their protection. They're additionally entitled to decide on the situation of the deposition, which they did.”
Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman raised eyebrows in Could when he advised Full of life's deposition happen at Madison Sq. Backyard. “Since Ms. Full of life is open to testifying, let's make it depend,” Freedman informed People. “Maintain the deposition at MSG, promote tickets or stream it and donate each greenback to organizations serving to victims of home abuse.”
Full of life's rep informed the outlet earlier this month that the actress' deposition “ought to comply with the identical guidelines as each different witness on this case.”
Full of life's rep alleged that Freedman's assertion was making an attempt to “make this matter a public spectacle,” reminding readers that it's a “critical” case of “sexual harassment and retaliation, and it deserves to be handled as such.”
In the end a choose dominated that Full of life might select the situation of her deposition.
Us confirmed earlier right now that Full of life had arrived for the deposition, which is being carried out by Baldoni's authorized crew.
The assembly is linked to Full of life and Baldoni's authorized battle which started in December 2024. On the time, Full of life accused her It Ends With Us costar and director of sexual harassment, making a hostile work setting and orchestrating a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her.
Baldoni denied the allegations and filed a countersuit in opposition to Full of life, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, for $400 million. He claimed that the trio was responsible of extortion and defamation, which they denied.
A New York choose has granted Blake Full of life's movement for a protecting order forward of her scheduled deposition. In keeping with the ruling obtained by Deadline on Monday, July 14, the actress, 37, might select the situation of her deposition scheduled for Thursday, July 17. The ruling said, “Full of life will make preparations for [Justin Baldoni's legal […]
Final month, a choose dismissed Baldoni's lawsuit in opposition to Full of life, Reynolds and Sloane. Baldoni's lawsuit in opposition to The New York Occasions, who initially ran the story of Full of life's allegations in opposition to him, was additionally dismissed.
“The Court docket's determination on the movement to dismiss has no impact in any way on the reality that there was no harassment nor any smear marketing campaign, and it doesn't in any approach have an effect on our vigorous protection in opposition to Ms. Full of life's claims,” Baldoni's lawyer Freedman mentioned in an announcement to Us in June.
Justin Baldoni has opted to not refile claims in his countersuit in opposition to Blake Full of life and Ryan Reynolds. The information comes weeks after Decide Lewis J. Liman dismissed Baldoni's $400 million lawsuit in opposition to Full of life, 37, and Reynolds, 48. Baldoni's countersuit got here after Full of life accused her It Ends With Us costar and director, 41, of sexual harassment, […]
The lawyer continued: “Discovery is continuing and we're assured that we'll prevail in opposition to these factually baseless accusations. As an alternative of revising the present claims, our purchasers will probably be pursuing further authorized choices which might be accessible to us.”
A spokesperson for Full of life additionally responded to the authorized win, telling Us in an announcement, “The Court docket dismissed the frivolous $400 million Baldoni-Wayfarer lawsuit in its entirety. Within the days that adopted, Baldoni's lawyer mentioned the choose's determination to dismiss their case was not a giant deal as they promised to amend and refile it. As per common, that was not true. The Court docket's dismissal of Baldoni's sham lawsuit was a complete victory in spite of everything.”
Full of life and Baldoni's trial is scheduled for March 2026.
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Full of life's groups for remark.
