Holly Wainwright

And then in December 2024, Lively sued Baldoni, accusing him of harassment, sexual misconduct, and a smear campaign on the set of their movie.

She claimed that Baldoni conspired with publicists to preemptively destroy her reputation, hence the dodgy press tour, after she privately accused him of sexually harassing her on the movie set.

There were a lot of damning texts released.

All hell broke loose.

Then Baldoni countersued.

He basically alleged that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, always wanted to take over this movie.

The control of the script, the edit, all the things that they had it in for him and they used their very famous friends to intimidate and harass him.

And so here we are.

Suddenly...

Just weeks before this mess was all going to go to court, all these cases have been disappeared.

Wait, it hadn't even gone to court yet?

Some things had been dropped, not dropped.

Things had gradually been dropped.

So first of all, Baldoni's case against Lively got dropped.

Then some elements of Lively's case against him got dropped.

So there was all that stuff.

But it was meant to go to court, I think, on May 18, so soon.

Wow.

and days before it's been disappeared.

Lawyers have made millions, reputations have been trashed, and nobody, apparently no money exchanged hands between the two parties, and no one, as evidenced by that really confusing press release, nobody is saying that they've won or not.