Overview

• Lively filed a new complaint in New York on September 8 seeking monetary relief for emotional and psychological harm and reimbursement of legal fees.
• Her filing invokes a 2023 California law that provides for attorney‑fee recovery and enhanced damages in cases of retaliatory defamation against harassment complainants.
• Documents reported by TMZ describe an unnamed witness who alleges repeated verbal abuse by Baldoni and exclusion from a production set on a separate project.
• A judge threw out Baldoni’s $400 million defamation countersuit in June 2025, narrowing the issues ahead of trial.
• The court has issued a protective order shielding Lively’s private communications, and a federal trial is set for March 9, 2026 in New York.