A recently filed sworn declaration alleges a second harassment complaint against actor and director Justin Baldoni, adding new fuel to the high-profile legal fight between Baldwin and Blake Lively.
The document, filed Sept. 4, 2025, and obtained by The Daily Mail, was submitted under penalty of perjury and describes "repeated, negative interactions" with Baldoni and his associates, including alleged verbal abuse by Baldoni. The unnamed individual said Baldoni "was not permitted on set during the majority of production as a result of those experiences" and that they asked he be excluded from marketing and public-relations activities related to the project.
The declaration references Wayfarer Studios co-founder Steve Sarowitz, saying the accuser had been contacted by Sarowitz's assistant to arrange a meeting, though no subject for that meeting was specified in the filing. TMZ reported that a source believes the individual is "likely to testify against Justin" if the case proceeds to trial.
The fresh allegation arrives as Lively has filed an expansive motion in federal court seeking attorney's fees, treble damages and punitive damages against Wayfarer Studios and its executives. In a roughly 30-page filing, Lively's lawyers argued that Wayfarer's defamation suit against her was "baseless from the start" and amounted to retaliation after she reported harassment and retaliation. Her team contends the studio attempted to "damage her credibility and conceal their own unlawful acts" by flooding public dockets with redacted exhibits and character attacks.
Lively's lawyers invoked California Civil Code Section 47.1, which addresses retaliatory lawsuits against those who report harassment, and asked the court to designate Lively the "prevailing defendant" entitled to recover legal fees while imposing punitive and treble damages on Wayfarer and its executives.
The motion also cites alleged statements attributed to Sarowitz, including a claim that he vowed to spend $100 million to harm Lively and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds. The filing quotes Sarowitz as saying, "I will protect the studio like Israel protected itself from Hamas. There were 39,000 dead bodies. There will be two dead bodies when I'm done. Minimum. Not dead, but 'you’re dead to me.' So that kind of dead. But dead to a lot of people." The filing presents the remarks as evidence of the studio's purported retaliatory intent.
The litigation traces back to disclosures and lawsuits that began in late 2024. In December 2024, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on a film set; Baldoni has denied those allegations. Wayfarer and Baldoni subsequently filed a defamation suit against Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Reynolds. Baldoni also sued The New York Times for $250 million over its reporting on the matter, a suit later dismissed by a federal judge.
On June 9, a judge dismissed Baldoni's defamation and extortion claims against The New York Times and others, ruling that the contested statements were made within privileged court filings and that the Wayfarer parties had not plausibly alleged additional defamatory statements by Lively beyond her court complaint. In his order, Judge Lewis J. Liman said the Times "reviewed the available evidence and reported, perhaps in a dramatized manner, what it believed to have happened. The Times had no obvious motive to favor Lively's version of events," and concluded the amended complaint must be dismissed in its entirety.
Attorneys for Lively have framed the sprawling filings as part of a pattern of efforts by Wayfarer to suppress or discredit harassment complaints. Lively's recent motion asks the court not only to dismiss claims against her but to impose statutory penalties intended to deter retaliatory litigation.
Representatives for Baldoni and Wayfarer did not immediately comment in the filings cited by Daily Mail; the outlet said it had reached out to Baldoni's representatives but had not received a response. Court papers indicate that the new sworn declaration does not pertain directly to the film It Ends with Us but stems from prior collaboration with Baldoni on a separate project linked to Wayfarer.
The trajectory of the case will depend on how the federal court addresses Lively's motion for fees and damages and whether the unnamed accuser's declaration is admitted or followed by in-court testimony. For now, the filings deepen a contentious legal battle that has drawn attention across the entertainment industry and mainstream media as parties trade accusations, motions and counterclaims in multiple federal filings.