Blake Lively was spammed with pornographic posts on her Instagram account amid her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni. 

The Gossip Girl alum, 40 – who has opted to stay hidden away during the highly publicized legal saga – notably filed a lawsuit in December accusing Baldoni of Sєxual harᴀssment and launching a smear campaign against her. 

Her It Ends With Us co-star and director of the film has since filed an amended $400 million counter suit against the actress and husband Ryan Reynolds. Justin is also suing the New York Times for $250 million. 

And most recently amid the lawsuit turmoil, Lively’s Instagram was flooded with pornographic content – which has since been cleared away, per TMZ. 

A source informed the outlet that the Hollywood star initially did not know what had occurred, but has now changed the security settings for her account. 

The posts were missed at first due to being in the tagged section of her page, which allows anyone to tag Blake. 

Blake Lively, 40, was spammed with pornographic posts on her Instagram account amid her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni; seen in November 2024 in L.A. 

Certain settings can prevent that from happening, and in this instance – Lively seemingly didn’t have those particular settings in place, which has now been altered.

Meta spokesperson, Daniel Roberts, talked about the incident and told TMZ, ‘This kind of online harᴀssment is wrong and we condemn it.’

‘We are removing the content that violates our policies and will continue to monitor for additional violating posts.’ 

It is not known who targeted Blake’s account or when the pornographic posts had started to fill her tagged page. 

However, her husband Ryan Reynolds’ Instagram page has appeared to be left untouched. 

The timing of the spam attack has occurred while the actress is currently embroiled in a legal feud with Justin Baldoni – which began late last year when she filed a Sєxual harᴀssment lawsuit against the filmmaker. 

She first filed an 80-page civil rights complaint days before Christmas on December 20 through the California Civil Rights Department, and then filed a federal lawsuit on New Year’s Eve. 

On December 21, the Times published an article тιтled ‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine. 

And most recently amid the lawsuit turmoil, Lively’s Instagram was flooded with pornographic content – which has since been cleared away, per TMZ; Baldoni seen in December 2024 in L.A. 

A source informed the outlet that the Hollywood star initially did not know what had occurred, but has now changed the security settings for her account

Lively interviewed with the publication and said, ‘I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.’ 

Baldoni subsequently sued the newspaper for $250 million in a defamation claim over the December 21 story. 

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Attorneys for Baldoni in mid-January distributed letters demanding various entertainment industry figures safeguard evidence linked to claims that Reynolds wrote a character named Nicepool into the ᴅᴇᴀᴅpool 2 film, intended to parody and humiliate Baldoni.

Baldoni on January 16 filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane, alleging defamation and extortion. 

Baldoni told the court the trio had concocted ‘false accusations of Sєxual harᴀssment’ against him.

Since Lively’s complaint was filed, Baldoni has faced a number of professional consequences, including a lawsuit from a former publicist; and being dropped by the agency WME, which also reps Lively and Reynolds.

Justin also recently amended his $400 million defamation lawsuit against Lively and claimed that she ‘plotted with NYT for months.’ 

Some social media users previously pointed out that a ‘message-embed-generator’ can be found in the article’s source code with the date of ‘2024-10-31’ – nearly two months before the story was officially published. 

Justin also recently amended his $400 million defamation lawsuit against Lively and claimed that she ‘plotted with NYT for months’; seen in December 2024 in NYC 

The amended suit includes: ‘Of course, it may be the case that the New York Times just happened to load a new tool for embedding text messages within an article as part of routine system upgrades.’ 

‘Only to stumble six weeks later upon the perfect opportunity to show off this new graphic tool in an article that relied heavily upon cherry-picked and misleadingly reframed text messages.’ 

‘But the simpler explanation is that the New York Times had already begun building its defamatory Article no later than October 31, 2024…’ 

‘Including developing a slick new graphic display module to prominently feature the misleadingly edited and context-stripped text messages centered in the Article.’ 

The updating filing also states: ‘It may seem unsurprising and even respectable that a news organization should work for weeks or months before publishing a purported investigative report.’ 

‘But the significance of the timing of these elements of the defamatory Article is that they strip away the legal shields that Lively, the Times, and the other Lively Parties were likely relying on to protect their malicious acts of defamation, such as the litigation privilege and the fair reporting privilege.’ 

The amended defamation lawsuit also includes the timeline going back to January 2019 when Baldoni first reached out to Colleen Hoover to adapt her novel It Ends With Us. 

Other communications are included, such as conversations with both Lively and Reynolds, and additional discussions over the film and development. 

‘But the simpler explanation is that the New York Times had already begun building its defamatory Article no later than October 31, 2024…,’ the amended suit also stated 

She first filed an 80-page civil rights complaint days before Christmas on December 20 through the California Civil Rights Department, and then filed a federal lawsuit on New Year’s Eve; seen in August 2024 in NYC 

Earlier this week on Thursday, both Blake and Ryan expressed their intention to ask a federal court to drop a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Baldoni.

‘The Lively-Reynolds Parties intend to move to dismiss Plaintiffs’ complaint,’ an attorney for the Hollywood power couple, Michael Gottlieb, told Judge Lewis Liman in a letter, Variety reported after reviewing legal documents in the case.

Judge Liman had previously requested the lawyers to send a written notice to ‘indicate in one sentence the Defendant’s intent to make a motion to dismiss.’

The judge is expected to schedule a ᴅᴇᴀᴅline date for them to submit the paperwork in the request, the outlet reported.

Lively and Reynolds’ publicist Leslie Sloane, who Baldoni also named in his lawsuit as a defendant, on Wednesday submit a similar statement to the court. 

The legal request comes as the first hearing in a spate of lawsuits between the collaborators on the summer hit is set to commence on Monday, February 3 with a pretrial conference.

Earlier this week on Thursday, both Blake and Ryan expressed their intention to ask a federal court to drop a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Baldoni; seen in July 2024 in NYC 

The conference was pushed up from an initial date of February 12, according to Variety, ahead of a trial with a starting date of March 9, 2026 in the case.

Lawyers for both parties were in accordance with a plan to compound both federal cases filed into one moving forward, the outlet reported.

Lively and Reynolds’ legal team has been asking the court to sanction Baldoni lawyer Bryan Freedman with a ‘gag order’ regarding ‘extrajudicial statements’ he made.

This week, flirty text exchanges between Justin and Blake also surfaced in a DailyMail.com analysis from hundreds of pages of sparring legal filings.