Blake Lively is trying to put an end to this claim.

As the legal battle with her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni continues, the Gossip Girl alum’s rep slammed comments made by Baldoni’s former WME agent Danny Greenberg during a recent deposition, in which he referred to Lively’s behind-the-scenes actions on the 2024 film as “extortion.” Her team says that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“The court already dismissed their so-called ‘taking over a movie’ claim, and this cherry-picked deposition quote from Baldoni’s prior agent before he was dropped from WME adds nothing new,” a rep for Lively said in a statement to E! News Oct. 14. “In fact, the court’s dismissal even assumed their allegations were true for the sake of argument—and still held

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