Justin Baldoni Stirs Up Drama by Launching Website about Blake Lively

Justin Baldoni has launched a website amid a legal battle over allegations of what occurred on the set of his and Blake Lively's movie, "It Ends With Us".

The website contains Baldoni's amended complaint and a timeline of events related to the case. Baldoni and Lively played a couple in the hit film, which came out last year, but has since become embroiled in an increasingly bitter legal dispute.

In December 2024, Lively, 37, sued Baldoni, 41, accusing him of sexual harassment and a smear campaign. Baldoni is counter-suing Lively and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, on claims of civil extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy.

Baldoni is also suing the New York Times for libel. Both parties strongly deny the claims.  A trial date has been set for the hearing of the claims between the two stars.

The website, called "Lawsuit Info", was launched on Saturday and contains two legal documents related to the case: Baldoni's latest court filings against Lively and Reynolds, and a 168-page document entitled "timeline of relevant events" related to the dispute and the production of the film. The latter includes alleged text message exchanges between him and Lively. 

It comes after Baldoni amended his lawsuit, accusing Lively of giving the New York Times advance access to her civil rights complaint.

Baldoni's attorney, Bryan Freedman, told BBC News that Baldoni amended his lawsuit due "to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light. This fresh evidence corroborates what we knew all along, that due to purely egotistical reasons Ms Lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications,".

A New York Times spokesperson told BBC News that Baldoni’s legal filings were “rife with inaccuracies” about the newspaper, “including, for example, the bogus claim that The Times had early access to Ms Lively's state civil rights complaint”.

They added that Baldoni's lawyers were “[basing] their erroneous claim on postings by amateur internet sleuths, who, not surprisingly, are wrong".

Last month, Baldoni released out-takes from a romantic scene in "It Ends With Us", which he says is evidence that Lively's allegations of sexual harassment are unfounded.

However, she responded by saying the footage of the duo filming a slow dance is "damning" and corroborates her claims.

"It Ends With Us" was released last summer, and became a TikTok sensation. The film is based on a best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover. In it, Lively plays a woman who finds herself in a relationship with a charming but abusive boyfriend, played by Baldoni.

The 45-year-old author has said her inspiration was the domestic abuse endured by her mother.