Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Both Claim Victory After Lawsuit Settlement 

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni reached a settlement in their lawsuit well over a year after Lively first filed. They reportedly did not exchange money in the settlement, but both sides have declared victory over the other. This has led to further disputes between them.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni reached a settlement in their lawsuit

Lively and Baldoni settled their lawsuit after a year and a half of legal proceedings. The details of the settlement are not public, but both sides have declared victory 

“This settlement is a resounding victory for Blake Lively,” Lively’s attorney said, per People.

“Let’s be clear, this is a win and total victory for the Wayfarer parties,” Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, said later that day. “The court had already dismissed 10 of Ms. Lively’s 13 claims, including every sexual harassment claim, every defamation claim, and all claims against the individual defendants. Ms. Lively voluntarily dismissed the rest. In our view, they settled because they knew they were going to lose in court. All that remains is a pending request for fees based on a very narrow issue that has been with the court since September 2025.”

Justin Baldoni’s lawyer slammed the idea that Blake Lively was victorious

After hearing that Lively’s team declared a victory in the settlement, Freedman claimed that the only reason she settled was that she was afraid of going to trial.

“Part of the reason Blake settled is because she was scared to take the witness stand at trial,” he told TMZ. “She did not want to face cross examination by anyone because that would require her to tell the truth.”

He accused her of lying on multiple occasions. 

“Blake lied about telling Sony to destroy the dailies,” he said. “She lied that she never told Colleen Hoover to unfollow Justin Baldoni. In her deposition, Colleen said Blake asked her to unfollow him. And there were more lies.”

He also pushed back at the idea that this was a legal victory for Lively. She initially sought a significant amount of money.

“Bottom line … Blake filed a claim for $300 million and she ended up with nothing. If this is a resounding victory, what does a defeat look like?”

Freedman said that if Lively believed she could have won in court, she would have gone to trial. 

“If she’s doing this for survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment and retaliation as she says, then why don’t you take the stand at trial and prove it to the world?” he asked. “A trial would have exposed her lies and the entire smear she was talking about in her interviews that she did.”

In response to this statement, Lively’s team implied that Freedman is only speaking out because he’s upset with the settlement.

“I guess he’s no longer ‘ecstatic’ about the settlement,” they said.