Justin Baldoni, the It Ends With Us director/star’s US$400 million countersuit against Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds , was dismissed by a federal judge in New York on Monday.

Judge Lewis J. Liman granted the motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Baldoni and the Wayfarer Parties against Lively and Reynolds , which alleged extortion and defamation, as well as the $250 million defamation lawsuit against the New York Times.

“Today’s opinion is a total victory and a complete vindication for Blake Lively , along with those that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Parties dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, including Ryan Reynolds , Leslie Sloane (Lively’s publicist) and The New York Times,” Lively’s lawyers said in a statement, according to Variety.

“As we have said

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