Justin Baldoni's lawyer is firing back at Blake Lively's attempt to cut herself out of the ongoing legal drama surrounding the film, "It Ends with Us."
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00:00This is going to really surprise you, but there has been a new lawsuit filed
00:03Oh, no!
00:05In the Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively legal war
00:10I thought a baker's dozen was the man
00:12I think there is no limit, there's no cap on this
00:16The latest one filed by Justin Baldoni against his, I guess you would say,
00:23estranged publicist, Stephanie Jones
00:26Stephanie Jones is technically still his rep because there's a contract they have
00:33But basically they say in these documents that she's the one who started all of this because
00:39They've been saying this for a while
00:41Yes, and now they've actually filed a lawsuit against her
00:44saying that she went into the phone of one of her employees, that she was
00:48What is going
00:49And that's how all this information came out
00:52There are so many lawsuits that this will be millions and millions and millions
00:58and millions and millions of dollars in legal fees
01:01And I don't get it
01:03He is getting his money's worth
01:05And his attorney, Brian Friedman, by the way, in addition to filing that lawsuit
01:09also had something to say about Blake Lively's motion to dismiss
01:15the lawsuit that she filed yesterday
01:17And Brian Friedman believes she is abusing the legal system
01:21He said Ms. Lively's recent motion to dismiss herself from the self-concocted disaster
01:26she initiated is one of the most abhorrent examples of abusing our legal system
01:31Wow
01:32Stringent rules are put into place to protect the innocent
01:35and allow individuals to rightfully defend themselves
01:39Laws are not meant to be twisted and curated by privileged elites
01:43Yeah, she's not going to get this lawsuit dismissed
01:47Nobody's going to get it dismissed
01:48They're all questions for the jury
01:50But Jason, I mean, what is going on here?
01:54I've never seen anything like this
01:56Millions and millions and millions of dollars in legal fees for what?
02:00There's the old adage, right?
02:01In every litigation, there's only two people who win
02:04That's the lawyers for each side, right?
02:05And that's really happening here
02:07Because both of these parties are paying out of pocket
02:09And, you know, they're not doing great jobs
02:12and zealously advocating on behalf of their clients what they should do
02:15But what's the end game for them?
02:17What is the end game?
02:18Justin Baldoni wants to rehabilitate his career
02:22and potentially get a huge judgment
02:25I don't know why, I mean, Blake does not want to admit wrongdoing here
02:29But that's what it's going to take, I think, to make this go away, right?
02:31Some sort of an admission of wrongdoing in a settlement payment
02:33The money's easy
02:35Ryan and Blake have all the money in the world
02:37That part's easy
02:38The hard part is somebody saying, my bad, I'm going to settle this thing
02:41Nobody's going to say that at this point
02:42Nobody's going to say that
02:43That's the problem, they can't now
02:45They've gone, they've pushed and pushed and pushed
02:46So now they're going to have depositions which are going to be videotaped
02:51Look, nobody is 100% clean in this thing
02:54And, you know, is there really going to be a winner?
02:59I mean, that's my question
03:00I mean, there already is no winner, right?
03:02Right
03:04Even if you get the money
03:05Every day
03:06But I will say
03:07A new lawsuit
03:08What you were saying about how much money they're spending on lawyers
03:11Yeah
03:12Remember that the co-founder, I can't remember his name
03:15The co-founder of Wayfair Studios
03:16Right
03:17Is on record as saying, I will spend whatever is necessary to sue Blake Lively into oblivion
03:25So I think he's going to have to spend whatever is necessary
03:29Yeah, but Blake Lively has enough money to defend this
03:32I mean, do they really want to go to court with something like this?
03:35I mean, does anybody win?
03:38I mean, there may be a judgment
03:39But man, this is
03:41I've never seen anything like this
03:43Madison, California
03:45Honestly, this is giving the same energy as a kid who calls 911 with a made-up story for attention
03:51But then once the police come, they start panicking
03:54It's
03:55If you're going to make a serious allegation like this, I think that you should really back it up
04:00And it's also worth noting that Lively filed this initial lawsuit in New York
04:06Where It Ends With Us was filmed
04:08But her motion to withdraw was in California
04:11Which makes all of this even more questionable
04:13Because the laws in California don't apply to the same laws in New York
04:18Her motion to dismiss was actually filed in a federal court in New York
04:22And I believe it was the Southern District
04:24So, we're honest to God