In June, Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed Baldoni's $400 million countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, the couple's publicist Leslie Sloane, and Sloane's public relations company Vision PR for alleged extortion and defamation.

Justin Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios co-founder and billionaire buddy Steve Sarowitz allegedly once swore "to spend up to $100 million to ruin" Blake Lively in her battle with her It Ends With Us co-star and director oover what did or did not go down on the film.