Blake Scores Major Victory

The It Ends With Us saga took another shocking twist on June 9 as a federal judge dismissed Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against costar Blake Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and their publicist. Lively’s lawyers celebrated the decision as “a total victory and a complete vindication,” telling Us, “As we have said from day one, this ‘$400 million’ lawsuit was a sham, and the Court saw right through it.”

- By Nicholas Hautman / With reporting by Sarah Hearon, Andrea Simpson & Amanda Williams

A source close to Lively, 37 and Reynolds, 48, adds that the couple “feel relief” now that Baldoni’s “counterattacks” will “no longer be given more air.” Judge Lewis J. Liman also tossed Baldoni’s $250 million libel suit against