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Darla Khazei/INSTARimagesBefore representing Justin Baldoni in his an ongoing legal battle with Blake Livelyattorney Bryan Freedman she herself was involved in a separate case involving the actor.
According to newly surfaced court documents seen by Us WeeklyFreedman represented a person with cystic fibrosis who was suing Baldoni, 40, for alleged copyright infringement and breach of contract.
Freedman’s client, Travis Floressuing Baldoni and other defendants in September 2021 claiming the actor’s directorial debut in 2019, Five feet apartripped from Flores’ own stunning romance script titled Three Feet Distance.
“Flores withheld his script from Baldoni because Flores had a policy of keeping his work confidential and because Baldoni was working on the feature film project that Flores considered a competitor,” the court documents said. “However, unbeknownst to Flores, Baldoni already had a different source to give him information Three Feet Distance. As it turned out, Baldoni’s film – which came to bear the title Five feet apart — it would copy a number of elements from Three Feet Distance.”
UPDATE 1/16/25 at 12:43 pm ET: Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios filed a $400 million lawsuit against It Ends With Us costar Blake Lively and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Thursday, January 16. In the filing 179-page piece obtained by Us Weekly, Baldoni claimed that Lively was “determined” to make him a “real-life villain in his story.” (…)
In March 2022, Bloomberg Law report that copyright infringement lawsuit is over Five feet apart was dismissed by a federal court in Los Angeles.
Us Weekly has reached out to Freedman for comment.
Five feet apartstar Haley Lou Richardson a Cole Sprouseexplores the love story and the real pain and struggle of cystic fibrosis.
There is a 2019 film, which according to all reports earned $92 million on a $7 million budget, was dedicated to a YouTuber Claire Winelandanother individual with cystic fibrosis left Baldoni inspired.
“I hired her as a consultant and unfortunately she died just before I could show her my director’s cut,” Baldoni told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. “It’s something I’m still dealing with.”
More than five years after Five feet apart released, Baldoni now finds himself in another legal position with one of his It Ends With Us costars
In December 2024, the New York Times the news broke that Lively Baldoni sued for sexual harassment and for claiming that she launched a “social manipulation” campaign against her to “destroy” her reputation.
Baldoni has denied the allegations via Freedman, who called Lively’s accusations “absolutely false, outrageous and deliberately salacious” in a statement to Us last month.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s reported split made headlines months before the It Ends With Us costars filed lawsuits. While Lively and Baldoni promoted the film in August 2024, rumors began to swirl about an alleged feud between the pair. Fans noticed that Lively was promoting the film with some of her costars while Baldoni, who (…)
The Jane the Virgin actor has since suing the New York Times for libel and false light disturbing privacy. (A New York Times The spokesperson stood by the story saying it was “reported in detail and responsibly.”)
Baldoni and his legal team were also suing Lively in favor $400 million in compensation and accused the actress of being “determined to make Baldoni the real villain in his story.”
Team Lively respond to the suitsaying, “It does not refute the evidence in Ms.’s complaint. Lively, and it will fail.” The actress has denied all Baldoni’s claims.
