Blake Lively's settlement with Justin Baldoni over It Ends With Us was meant to draw a line under one of Hollywood's ugliest legal disputes. Instead, the deal has reopened the argument in public, with Baldoni's side stressing that Lively received no monetary payout and her supporters pointing to language that says her claims 'deserved to be heard.'
The news came after months of legal sparring over Lively's allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation linked to the film. The two sides reached a settlement last month, but the arrangement has done little to quiet the noise around the case. A recent court ruling added to that, ordering Baldoni to pay Lively's legal fees on one claim brought under a California law meant to protect sexual harassment victims from retaliatory defamation suits, while rejecting her request for damages.
