US actress Blake Lively's lead counsel, Michael Gottlieb, gathered with other counselors after a pre-trial hearing in a $400 million defamation suit by Baldoni against Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds in New York on February 3, 2025. Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are being targeted in a $400 million defamation suit by Justin Baldoni, Lively's co-star on bleak romance "It Ends With Us" -- the latest caustic twist in the legal battle engulfing the film. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)