The case of the movie Break the circle (It ends with usin the original in English), for which Blake Lively sued Justin Baldoni and he contradicted her weeks later in an infinite loop of legal protests and leaks from the press to the press, he continues his course and is complicated. A New York judge has just decided that the courts will have the last word about the complex controversy in which its protagonists are immersed, Baldoni (41 years, also director of the same) and Lively (of 37 and that it is, to in turn, producer). Of course, there is a lack of time and probably many evidence to know yet, because the date of the trial has been set for March 9, but of 2026.
Judge Lewis J. Liman has made known on Monday both parties that are preparing for the trial and, in addition, has advanced an initial view with the lawyers of the parties a week, when it was going to take place on February 12 , as reported by the Associated Press agency. Apparently, he has also informed the lawyers who must be prepared to receive complaints regarding prior advertising, as well as the conduct of the lawyers themselves.
Everything started at the end of December, when the newspaper The New York Times published exclusively a long article entitled ‘We can bury anyone’: Inside a Hollywood discrediting machine. In it, he not only published the demand for more than 60 pages that Blake Lively interposed against the co -star and director of the film that premiered in summer, Justin Baldoni, but effectively exposed that: how a complex machinery had been created through equipment through equipment public relations and dozens of millions of dollars to end the reputation of the interpreter, who jumped to fame for having been serene van der Woodsen in the teenage series Gossip Girl. In addition, Lively denounced the director for sexual harassment, crossing him into his dressing He did not, to describe his genitals or tell him his sexual relations, spoiled or not (that is, with harassment and rape).
Lively’s demand was a bomb for the director and for the film, a romantic drama of enormous success based on a book Superventas by Colleen Hoover that raised about 350 million dollars worldwide, but also for all Hollywood and for millions of millions of Fans of the stars system in the world. Everyone could scrutinize the dirty rags of such a play, in which Lively had been exposed as submissive and smiling during the promotion, focused on fashion when the film talked about sexist violence (as it was known later, that was the guideline that Sony gave , the producer), or as a manipulator, for rewriting certain scenes with her husband, also actor Ryan Reynolds (later she met that she had specifically asked not to add more sex scenes to the script and asked to rewrite it).
Wme, the agency that took Baldoni’s career, decided to stop representing him shortly after. The actor, who jumped to fame a decade ago for his role in the television comedy Jane The Virginhe did not stay with his arms crossed, and in a counter -mail 10 days later he denounced both the actress and the newspaper before the Superior Court of Los Angeles, California, for 400 million dollars. In demand – this time published exclusively from the specialized medium Variety– He was also accompanied more producers, as well as the publicists accused by Lively of having maneuvered against him. According to Baldoni, it was the actress who had created a “strategist and manipulative sinking campaign” with “false allegations of abuse to unilaterally take the control of production”, and by pressures of his and from Reynolds, he said, his agency had dropped. With respect to the newspaper, which demands for defamation for 250 million dollars, it claimed that the article was partisan in favor of Lively, unusual in his procedure, that he made a narration “decontextualized and manipulative” and that “he discarded many tests that They contradicted their complaints. ” In addition, in the lawsuit I dropped the name of the omnipresent Taylor Swift, a good friend of Lively, something that gave her even more notoriety.
In addition, Lively has filed another different legal request in Hays County, in Texas. In that kind of predemanda demands a statement from a man named Jed Wallace, an expert in crisis management based there that, according to her, is after the media manipulation that made it the target of criticism and insults on platforms such as Tiktok or Reddit . Now, the judge explained that he will unite all the demands of all parties in the same trial.
During the month of January, more documents and supposed evidence of part have been filtered. This is the case of a 10 -minute video that shows both rolling a scene from the movie, dancing and laughing, filtered by the Baldoni team, where it is ensured that it is seen smiling and fun; She, on the other hand, states that she looks more and more uncomfortable. In addition, this Monday, TMZ He has leaked an audio that Baldoni supposedly sent Lively at two in the morning asking him apologies. In the personal matter, while the marriage of Lively and Reynolds has barely pronounced or showed in public, Baldoni has made some statements, stating that it is sustained in “faith, family and friends” at the moment.
Judge Liman has made the decision to set a date after, on Monday, the actress’s lawyers filed a letter in which they assured that Baldoni’s were trying to dirty the possible members of the jury. They claim that one of the lawyers intended to create a website to launch mutual documents and messages, “participating in this extrajudicial campaign to influence these procedures and the public perception of legal presentations before this Court,” they have indicated, stating that “there is already a serious risk of their misconduct being contaminating the group of jurors. ” Baldoni’s lawyers have moved a file ensuring that “Lively is so petrified by the truth that has moved to amordazar her”, but they have not denied the existence of that portal: “All we want is that people see real text messages that directly contradict their accusations, video images that clearly show that there was no sexual harassment and all other powerful tests that directly contradict any false accusation, ”says AP.
The initial view – in which the actors were not expected, but their lawyers – was set for February 12, but has advanced. Regarding the trial, we will have to wait more than a year. Of course, as it is possible to happen, Lively and Baldoni do not reach an agreement before.