Blake Lively Is All Smiles at Chanel Event Hours After Judge Dismisses Justin Baldoni’s $400M Lawsuit

Blake Lively stepped retired astatine Chanel’s Tribeca Artists Dinner tonight, hours aft Justin Baldoni's countersuit against her and different parties was dismissed.

The character was each smiles arsenic she posed connected nan carpet while wearing a achromatic dress pinch floral embellishments and matching heels. She wore her hairsbreadth down and connection earrings.

Lively's quality astatine nan Monday, June 9, arena comes hours aft Judge Lewis J. Liman granted a mobility to disregard the $400 cardinal countersuit revenge by Baldoni and nan Wayfarer Parties successful January against Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane's PR patient Vision PR, Inc., alleging extortion and defamation.

His different claims included mendacious ray penetration of privacy, breach of implied covenant of bully religion and adjacent dealing, intentional interference pinch contractual relations, intentional interference pinch prospective economical advantage, and negligent interference pinch prospective economical advantage.

The suit was revenge successful consequence to Lively's suit successful December, successful which she sued Baldoni and his accumulation company, among others, for intersexual harassment, followed by a retaliatory nationalist smear campaign to "destroy" her reputation.

After The New York Times ran an investigative communicative looking into Lively's claims, Baldoni filed a $250 cardinal lawsuit against nan outlet, alleging libel, which The New York Times denied.

The $250 cardinal defamation suit against the Times was besides dismissed by nan judge connected Monday.

It was noted, however, by nan judge that Baldoni's ineligible squad tin still amend nan claims for breach of implied covenant and tortious interference pinch statement if they take to. Their deadline would beryllium June 23.

Marvel's mobility to beryllium removed from nan ongoing ineligible conflict betwixt Lively and Baldoni, complete Reynolds' Nicepool character, was besides granted connected nan aforesaid day.

In a connection obtained by PEOPLE, Lively's attorneys Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb said, "Today's sentiment is simply a full victory and a complete vindication for Blake Lively, on pinch those that Justin Baldoni and nan Wayfarer Parties dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, including Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and The New York Times."

"As we person said from time one, this '$400 million' suit was a sham, and nan Court saw correct done it," nan statement.

"We look guardant to nan adjacent round, which is seeking attorneys’ fees, treble damages and punitive damages against Baldoni, [Steve] Sarowitz, [Melissa] Nathan and nan different Wayfarer Parties who perpetrated this abusive litigation," nan connection continued.

Lively besides said retired connected her Instagram Stories, writing, "Like truthful galore others, I've felt nan symptom of a retaliatory lawsuit, including nan manufactured shame that tries to break us."

"While nan suit against maine was defeated, truthful galore don't person nan resources to conflict back," she added, noting that she is now "more resolved than ever to proceed to guidelines for each woman's correct to person a sound successful protecting themselves, including their safety, their integrity, their dignity and their story."

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"With emotion and gratitude for nan galore who stood by me, galore of you I know. Many of you I don't. But I will ne'er extremity appreciating aliases advocating for you," she wrote, adding a database of organizations for applicable resources and information.