Blake Lively stepped out in New York City on Tuesday, appearing in public just hours after Candace Owens made a pointed dig by sharing a selfie with Justin Baldoni.
The Gossip Girl actress, 39, was seen bringing a cup of coffee to her husband, Ryan Reynolds, 49, who remained waiting inside his car.
Lively embraced a polished autumn look for the outing, wearing a soft grey knit cardigan with a coordinating skirt, days after details emerged about her unexpectedly small payout from Baldoni.
She elevated the outfit with Khaite’s mesh Marcy ballet flats, priced at $950, and carried a burgundy suede Chanel bucket bag from the Fall/Winter 2026 pre-collection, which retails for $6,700.
Her blonde hair was styled straight with a side part, while a pair of Chanel sunglasses shielded her eyes.
For accessories, Lively added a hint of shimmer with a heart-shaped necklace and a sapphire ring.
Blake Lively, 39, was seen in New York City on Tuesday, shortly after Candace Owens, 37, appeared to take a playful swipe at her by posting a selfie with Justin Baldoni, 42
Reynolds, meanwhile, was later photographed attending the premiere of his new comedy Mayday at AMC Lincoln Square without Lively by his side.
He cut a dashing figure in a grey suit paired with white sneakers. The actor way joined by Maria Bakalova and Sir Kenneth Branagh.
Lively’s outing comes a day after Owens shared about her random run-in with Baldoni, 42, last week, and took a jab at Lively.
‘There was an approximate 1 in 100 million chance that I ran into Justin Baldoni at an airport in Iceland on a Friday afternoon,’ the political commentator, 37, captioned a selfie that showed her cuddling up to the actor. ‘Just incredible.’
She added the hashtag #Cousins in a nod to her support of Baldoni amid his public feud with his It Ends with Us co-star Lively.
‘NOBODY messes with my cousin,’ Owens added.
In another subtle jab at Lively, Owens posted the photo to her Instagram Stories, accompanying the image with the Taylor Swift track My Tears Ricochet.
The song was used in It Ends With Us and Lively and Swift were previously close friends before their high-profile falling out.
One user was tickled by Owens’ trolling, writing: ‘Now Candace that’s just messy … got Taylor playing in the background.’
It comes just days after Our News Outlet revealed the star was to be awarded only a small fraction of legal fees she tried to claim from Baldoni after their bitter court battle.
The Gossip Girl star looked ready for fall, wearing a cozy grey knit cardigan and a matching skirt along with a $6,700 Chanel bucket bag and $950 mesh ballet flats by Khaite
Meanwhile, her husband Ryan Reynolds, 49, was later seen attending the premiere of his new comedy movie Mayday at AMC Lincoln Square without her
He cut a dashing figure in a grey suit paired with white sneakers
The actor way joined by Maria Bakalova and Sir Kenneth Branagh
Lively’s outing comes a day after Owens shared about her random run-in with Baldoni last week, and accompanied her post with Taylor Swift’s track My Tears Ricochet
The song was used in It Ends With Us and Lively and Swift were previously close friends before their high-profile falling out; The two pictured in 2024
On Wednesday, a judge ruled that Lively will be awarded just five percent of the amount she sought to recoup for defending herself against Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit
On Wednesday, a judge in New York ruled she will be awarded just five percent ($400,000) of the amount she sought to recoup ($8 million) for defending herself against Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit.
The judge said hours Lively had billed for her lawyers were ‘unreasonable’ and criticized the ‘discrepancies’ in the expenses she was trying to claim.
The court ruling came months after the same judge threw out most of the claims in Lively’s sexual harassment case against her It Ends With Us co-star and they agreed to settle the case with no money changing hands.
Judge Lewis Liman had previously dismissed Baldoni’s defamation countersuit against Lively, but he did allow her to seek legal fees solely related to defending that action.
In an order obtained by Our News Outlet, Judge Liman ruled: ‘The clerk of court is respectfully directed to enter judgment for Lively in the amount of $363,245.40 in attorneys’ fees and $44,206.35 in costs’.
Lively sued Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios production company in December 2024 for alleged sexual harassment on the set of the movie, and defamation.
Baldoni responded the following month with the $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, and the New York Times, which was first to publish her claims.
In October last year, a judge dismissed Baldoni’s case and in May this year, after a judge dismissed most of Lively’s claims, she agreed to settle her claim. But the legal battle didn’t end there.
Weeks later, Lively filed court documents seeking to recoup her legal expenses from the drawn-out lawsuit.
Last month, Lively revealed in court filings just how much she was demanding: $4,544,094 from Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher and $2,951,432 from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, two high-profile law firms.
Lively and Baldoni finally agreed to a settlement in the two-year legal battle in May – just two weeks before the case was set to go to trial. Above, on the set of It Ends With Us in 2024
It Ends with Us earned $148 million in domestic box office and $350 million globally, but whatever goodwill the film garnered was overshadowed by the allegations made by its stars
However, the final bill will be $300,000 higher because of costs related to a recent hearing on June 1, bringing it to $8.3 million.
The news she’d receive a measly $400,000 after demanding an eye-watering $8 million following their bombshell settlement, coincided with her birthday, when her husband shared a gushing post calling her a ‘courageous and deeply kind genius.’
Lively and Reynolds first met in 2010 on the set of Green Lantern. They started dating the following year, in October 2011.
They tied the knot on September 9, 2012 in South Carolina and share daughters James, 11, Inez, nine, Betty, six, and son Olin, three.
