Blake Lively began his testimony for his trial against It ends with us Director and Costar Justin Baldoni.
A source tells US Weekly exclusively that the Gossip Girl The 37 -year -old Alun arrived for the deposition of New York by the legal team of the 41 -year -old actor on Thursday, July 31.
We Has hand at Lively and the representatives of Baldoni to comment.
Earlier this month, the news announced that live The deposit was planned For July 17 in New York. However, documents obtained later by We confirmed The date had been postponed As of July 31, the two parties accepting the change after the social media guru Jed Wallace was rejected from the case For jurisdictional reasons. The additional time has enabled Lively and the Baldoni camps to come together before the deposit.
In May, the Baldoni lawyer Bryan Freedman The eyebrows raised when he suggested Madison Square Garden as a location for the Lively deposit.
“Since Ms. Lively is open to testify, let’s count,” said Freedman People at the time. “Hold the deposit at MSG, sell tickets or broadcast it and give organizations to the organizations of domestic violence each dollar.”
Earlier this month, the representative of Lively said People that his deposition “should follow the same rules as all the other witnesses in this case”.
The declaration said that Freedman was trying to “make this question a public show every turn”, adding: “This is a serious question of sexual harassment and reprisals, and it deserves to be treated as such”.
Lively previously asked that her testimony be held in an exposed location with all those present identified in advance. The Baldoni legal team then accused Lively of having tried to dictate and control the deposit using its “celebrity status”. The judge finally took place on the side of life, allowing him to Choose the location of the deposit.
Lively and Baldoni have been involved in a legal battle since December 2024, when she accused her of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment on the set of their film, It ends with usAnd deliberately creating a defamation campaign against her. Baldoni denied allegations at the time and contradicted, Ryan Reynolds And his publicist Leslie Sloane For $ 400 million, demand extortion and defamation.
Before the deposition of Lively, a judge rejected the Baldoni trial Against her, Reynolds and Sloane in June.
Meanwhile, the case of Lively against Baldoni is expected to be tried in March 2026.
