The legal battle between actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has returned to centre stage in a New York court despite a deal to end Lively's claims that she suffered retaliation after making sexual harassment claims over the making of their 2024 film It Ends With Us.
Lawyer Ellyn Garofalo, representing Baldoni, told US District Judge Lewis J. Liman that Lively was trying through an application for legal fees to do "an end run around the jury trial" that was voided when a deal was reached before a May trial was set to start.
At a hearing without the actors, Garofalo told Liman it was wrong for Lively to seek damages and legal fees after agreeing to a settlement in which she dismissed her claims without Baldoni and his production company "paying a cent of the $US300 million in damages she was demanding."
