Blake Lively Sees Attorney Fee Motion as Act of Advocacy: ‘This Is About So Much More to Her’

May 7, 2026 1:01pm PT Blake Lively Sees Attorney Fee Motion as Act of Advocacy: ‘This Is About So Much More to Her’

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IT ENDS WITH US, from left: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, 2024. ph: Nicole Rivelli /© Sony Pictures Releasing /Courtesy Everett Collection

Blake Lively agreed to settle her claims against Justin Baldoni‘s Wayfarer Studios on Monday, but her legal battle continues in the form of a motion for attorney fees resulting from Baldoni’s failed defamation suit against her.

Lively filed the motion last September under a 2023 California law that seeks to protect sexual abuse accusers from “weaponized” defamation suits. That motion was the one piece of the legal feud left unresolved by the settlement.

Blake Lively Sees Attorney Fee Motion as Act of Advocacy: ‘This Is About So Much More to Her’

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