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‘Blake Lively Net Worth' Trend Explained Amid Justin Baldoni Legal Battle
The phrase 'Blake Lively net worth' is trending, and people want to know why. Lively, a prominent Hollywood actress, has appeared in projects such as the CW's Gossip Girl, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), Green Lantern (2011), The Age of Adaline (2015), and the Simple Favor movies. She is married to fellow actor and producer Ryan Reynolds, and the couple shares four children. In 2024, Lively became involved in a legal battle with Justin Bladoni, with whom she worked on the romantic drama film It Ends with Us. The phrase 'Blake Lively net worth' has become a trend, likely because of the ongoing legal battle between Lively and Baldoni. The pair worked together on 2024's It Ends With Us, a project that eventually became riddled with controversies and legal disputes. While promoting the movie, Lively garnered criticism on social media for what was dubbed as not properly addressing the movie's themes of domestic violence and emotional abuse in her interactions with the media. At the same time, Baldoni seemed to be majorly absent from the movie's promotion. It Ends with Us debuted in U.S. theaters in August 2024, and was a massive hit. In December, Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department, accusing him of creating a hostile work environment and sexual misconduct. In an article published that month, The New York Times claimed that Baldoni had employed a PR firm to target Lively. This prompted the Jane the Virgin actor to file a $250 million lawsuit against the outlet. Lively subsequently filed a federal lawsuit against Baldoni, reiterating what she mentioned in her complaint. Later, Baldoni sued Lively, Reynolds, and their publicist Leslie Sloan for $400 million, alleging extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy. (via CNN Entertainment) Notably, Lively has a speculated net worth of $30 million. It's possible that her net worth was impacted by the ongoing legal battle. The post 'Blake Lively Net Worth' Trend Explained Amid Justin Baldoni Legal Battle appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Buzz Feed
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
"We Didn't Come From Money": 21 Celebs Who Acted Like They Were From Humble Beginnings And Immediately Got Called Out
1. Speaking about wanting to give his children with Blake Lively a normal life, Ryan Reynolds made a questionable claim about Lively's upbringing. "We both grew up very working class, and I remember when they were very young, I used to say or think, like, 'Oh God, I would never have had a gift like this when I was a kid,' or, 'I never would've had this luxury of getting takeout,' or whatever." This checks out for Ryan, whose parents were a retail worker and a police officer. However, Blake's parents were actor-director Ernie Lively and talent manager Elaine Lively. She grew up in the suburbs of LA and went to Burbank High with other future celebs. All her siblings were in the industry, and she quickly got her first major role at 17 (in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) with no significant prior experience, leading many to call her a "nepo baby." There's also this video of her getting ready for prom, which shows her designer gown and a bedroom with a chandelier and, it seems, an en-suite bathroom. Let's just say she was certainly able to afford takeout. 2. Victoria Beckham also claimed that she grew up"working class" in the documentary Beckham. Her husband David quickly took issue with this, pushing Victoria to admit to the type of car her father, an electronics engineer, drove her to school in...a Rolls-Royce. 3. Lorde skyrocketed to fame with her song "Royals" at age 16, but it painted a picture of her life so far that wasn't *quite* accurate. The lyrics talk about never having seen a diamond and not being from money. They also state, "And I'm not proud of my address in a torn-up town, no postcode envy." Her song "Team" and its accompanying music videos also depict similar messages about Lorde and her friends and portray hanging out around dilapidated buildings and shipping containers. Except Lorde grew up in the fairly wealthy suburbs outside Auckland with a poet and photographer mother and a civil engineer father. She was well-educated and was briefly put in a gifted kids program; she grew up taking drama classes, reading literary classics, and proofreading her mother's thesis. While sure, she wasn't exactly wealthy, she was far more privileged than her lyrics seem to suggest. 4. Travis Scott's roots are a *little* questionable. While he's admitted he grew up in middle-class suburbs (his mom worked for Apple, and his dad was a business owner), he also says he "used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six," where he saw "random crazy stuff. [I saw] mad bums and people looking weird, hungry, and grimy. I was always like, 'I gotta get the f**k out this place.' It gave me my edge—[it made me] who I am right now." While this seems to check out, it's arguable how much of that time Scott would remember, and it's also worth noting that Scott went to a private elementary and middle school. "It was like the freshest bitches and all my homies were rich as fuck," he recalled. His songs seem to paint the picture of having spent much more time in the "hood," and not as a toddler, with lyrics like "Pulled out of the hood, Toyota; Drove back to the hood, Lambo" and "I done made it out the hood through all the hoops," etc. Making it "out of the hood" because you moved when you were six isn't quite the same as what his songs seem to suggest. 5. Tyga similarly talks about the "hood" and Compton roots in his songs, but in this unaired clip from a 2008 game show, he says he grew up well-off in the Valley and that his parents drove a Range Rover. However, Tyga later claimed the clip from the game show was scripted, saying,"I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life." Based on his name-drop of Gardena's Peary Middle School in his song "Get Big," it looks like Tyga had moved to Gardena by middle school. I'll let readers decide on this one — can Tyga claim Compton? 6. Despite how he was portrayed in Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube wasn't actually from Compton. He was born in Baldwin Hills and raised in South Central Los Angeles, and his parents both had stable jobs working at UCLA. He attended George Washington Preparatory High School and later was bused to William Howard Taft Charter High School in suburban Woodland Hills. He then earned a degree in architectural drafting. Many colleagues have questioned his street cred. Rapper Kam said in a diss track, "It's a shame you got rich off our stress and strife, / you ain't never gang banged in your life," and both Kam and DJ Alonzo Williams referred to him as an "actor." 7. Whitney Cummings has repeatedly said that she was poor as a kid, stating that she loved Roseanne because "I grew up poor, and that was the first show that looked like my house. It was the first show that didn't make me feel bad about myself." She's also listed the "poor people food" she ate, like cereal, peanut butter and jelly (or banana) sandwiches, and fish sticks. While she admitted her mom was a Neiman Marcus publicist and her dad was a "venture capitalist," she said it was more that he called himself that and would borrow and lend money until it was gone. She said the heat didn't work in her house, that she often had lice, and that she often ate at neighbors' houses since her parents didn't feed her. However, the backstory feels shaky at best. Cummings grew up in Georgetown (a wealthy area), attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School (around $50,000 in yearly tuition), had her own horse, and then went to UPenn, an Ivy League school. While it could be that her circumstances drastically changed in the middle of her childhood (she did state she moved in with her sister before high school), it certainly doesn't seem like she grew up in poverty. This early Washington Post interview states Cummings grew up "in relative comfort padded by free lotions, perfumes and clothes from Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus." 8. In his song "Juicy," Biggie Smalls claimed that he was so poor growing up that he would eat sardines for dinner. He also said they'd skip Christmas and had no heat. But his mother, Voletta Wallace, later claimed this wasn't true, denying that he ever had to eat sardines for dinner. They likely didn't celebrate Christmas because his mother was a Jehovah's Witness. Biggie also went to private school, and the "one room shack" he referenced in his music was actually an apartment in Brooklyn (it has been renovated, though it was clearly never a "shack"). He was described by the New Yorker as "middle class." 9. Bob Dylan has been caught in more than a few lies about his childhood. For example, he once claimed that he didn't know his parents — around the same time, he was putting them up in hotels and inviting them to his shows. He also once claimed he was raised in New Mexico and sang for a traveling carnival from the ages of 13 to 19 — and that he used to turn "tricks in Times Square to make ends meet." None of this is true. He also changed his name and the way he talked and dressed to better emulate Woody Guthrie and claimed he had a troubled childhood. The result was that Dylan had the persona of a working-class man from the American West and not that of a largely suburban, middle-class kid from upstate Minnesota, close to Canada. 10. Lana Del Rey's music often paints a picture of a "white trash" woman who came from a low-income family out west or in Florida and lived in a trailer park — which fans have contradicted after learning her father is now a millionaire. However, Del Rey maintains that her father made his money after she became an adult, saying that she grew up in one of "the most rural places in America" (Lake Placid) and that her family "had absolutely no money." While she did go to an elite boarding school, she said it was through her uncle working there and that she received financial aid. Still — Del Rey didn't actually live in a trailer park until she was an adult when she used money from her first album deal to buy a trailer. For many fans, learning she lived in a "little mountain town" in New York State and attended boarding school shattered the illusion of Del Rey's upbringing. 11. Kid Rock similarly built an image around being poor and coming "straight out the trailer" — when in reality, he was born to millionaire parents and lived on an estate in Michigan with a complete guest house, apple orchard, horse stables, and private tennis courts. His father reportedly had a second home in Jupiter Island, Florida. 12. Ed Sheeran has spoken multiple times about couch-surfing and not having anywhere to live when he was first trying to make it, both when he moved to London and when he moved to LA. In London, he even said he used to sleep in an arch with a heating duct outside Buckingham Palace. He even wrote the song "Homeless" there. He also would sleep on the train after gigs. "I spent a week catching up on sleep on Circle Line trains. I'd go out and play a gig, wait until 5 a.m. when the Underground opened, sleep on the Circle Line until 12, go to a session — and then repeat. It wasn't that bad. It's not like I was sleeping rough on the cold streets." Graham Denholm / WireImage via Getty Images Sheeran, who was born to wealthy parents, also said, "I didn't have anywhere to live for much of 2008 and the whole of 2009 and 2010, but somehow I made it work. I knew where I could get a bed at a certain time of night, and I knew who I could call at any time to get a floor to sleep on. Being sociable helped. Drinking helped." Later, after people pointed out his privilege and parentage, he said headlines that he'd called himself "homeless" had taken his quotes out of context. "Everyone's saying 'Ed Sheeran was homeless' — I never said that in the book. I went without a bed for some nights, that's it." Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images 13. In an old interview to promote their then-upcoming show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Khloé, Kim, Kourtney, and Kris spoke about their upbringing. In the clip, Kourtney attempted to shatter the idea that they were always rich by saying she was cut off in her early 20s. E! / Via Kim followed up by saying it was actually more challenging for them to grow up privileged because it created an expectation for a certain lifestyle they had to maintain. She also claimed "most people are doing nothing" and seemed to think it was novel that she was working at 16. E! / Via 14. Years later, Kardashian eventually acknowledged her privilege growing up but then seemed to insinuate they actually had a difficult financial upbringing. "Yeah, we grew up privileged, but people don't know the story of [Caitlyn Jenner] and Mom having to sell their house in Hidden Hills because they couldn't afford it and they had to move to an apartment," she said on her reality show. This information is contradicted in Kris's memoir. Speaking of Jenner, she was a former Olympic athlete and celebrity, while the Kardashians' birth father, Robert Kardashian, was a lawyer best known for representing O.J. Simpson. David Livingston / Getty Images 15. Gwyneth Paltrow similarly said she's "completely self-made" because her parents — Emmy and Tony award-winning actor Blythe Danner and film director Bruce Paltrow — didn't give her money as an adult. "People think, 'She's just a rich kid.' Until I was 18, I was. Then I was broke. I've never taken a dime off my parents." When she dropped out of college to be an actor, she says her dad refused to "help" her. "I was like, 'Yeah, right.' And he was like, 'No, I'm not.' So I got an apartment with a roommate; I worked as a hostess at a restaurant; I would scrounge quarters to buy Starbucks — and walk there to save gas. I remember once asking my dad for money, like, 'Please, I'm really stuck. Can you help?' And he said, 'You're more than welcome to come over for dinner.' That was it." Stefanie Keenan / Getty Images for Daily Front Row Also, Paltrow's godfather is Steven Spielberg, a friend of her parents, who gave her a role in his 1991 film Hook when she was 18. 16. Vanilla Ice initially claimed he'd had a rough, poor upbringing in Florida, which made headlines after journalists discovered he'd actually lived in a middle-class suburb of Dallas and drove a white IROC Camaro Z28. While Ice eventually admitted to some statements about his past being false, he nevertheless doubled down on claims that he "grew up poor on the streets" and spent time in predominately Black neighborhoods in Miami and Dallas. As for his car, he said he bought a fancy car from doing motocross but couldn't afford gas. Paul Natkin / WireImage There were also claims he'd dropped out of school as a 10th-grader, though he later said he'd gone to R.L. Turner High School for his junior and senior years. Though he also admitted he "actually tried to detour people," saying, "I was embarrassed to tell people I was from Farmers Branch [an inner-ring suburb of Dallas]. I didn't tell them I was from Miami. I didn't tell them I was from anywhere. I was just like, 'Listen, I'm from around the corner, man. I'm from around the fucking way.'" Overall, though, he said he misled people to protect his privacy — which didn't stop critics from parsing through his lies and questioning his street cred. Matthew Eisman / Getty Images 17. When Daisy Ridley was asked about her privilege in an interview with the Guardian, she seemed confused and then compared her upbringing to that of Star Wars costar John Boyega. For reference, Boyega has said he was a "poor lad from London, with parents who moved from Nigeria to the UK and lived on council estates" and that his family was too poor to afford toys. He also went to theater school on a hardship fund. Jeff Spicer / Jeff Spicer / Getty Images for Disney Ridley, in contrast, had a banker mother and photographer father and was also related to famous playwright Arnold Ridley and BBC's former head of engineering John Harry Dunn Ridley. She grew up in the wealthy area of Maida Vale. Nevertheless, she said, "John grew up on a council estate in Peckham and I think me and him are similar enough..." She also said, when the interviewer suggested that she had privilege because she went to a private school, "I went to a boarding school for performing arts, which was different." She did attend the school with some kind of scholarship and called her home in Maida Vale "the ricketiest home on the street." Dave Benett / WireImage via Getty Images 18. Drake has also framed his story as very rags-to-riches, notably in his song "Started from the Bottom." Critics have taken issue with this portrayal, considering Drake (then Aubrey Graham) began living in Forest Hill (a rich neighborhood) in sixth grade and was cast in Degrassi at age 14. Drake later claimed,"Everybody thinks I went to some private school and my family was rich. Maybe it's my fault. Maybe I haven't talked enough about it, but I didn't grow up happy. I wasn't in a happy home. ... We were very poor, like broke." Mike Marsland / Getty Images "The only money I had coming in was off of Canadian TV, which isn't that much money when you break it down," Drake said. "A season of Canadian television is under a teacher's salary, I'll tell you that much. It's definitely not something to go fucking get." He said he lived with his mother on the bottom two floors of a house, saying the home was "not big, it was not luxurious. It was what we could afford." While it's true that Drake was only making a reported $50,000 a year from Degrassi, he was still a TV star appearing at red-carpet events, which isn't exactly the "bottom." Steve Granitz / WireImage via Getty Images 19. Lady Gaga has painted herself as middle class growing up multiple times, though she grew up on the notoriously wealthy Upper West Side just blocks from Lincoln Center and went to the private school Sacred Heart. At school, Gaga said some of her classmates had extreme wealth, unlike her family: "All our money went into education and the house." Gaga worked at a diner and bought a Gucci purse with her first paycheck, saying, "I was so excited because all the girls at Sacred Heart always had their fancy purses, and I always had whatever. My mom and dad were not buying me a $600 purse." Her parents did, however, take out a loan to buy her a baby grand piano, and she took piano and voice lessons while growing up. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic via Getty Images Her father paid part of her rent for her first apartment and offered to pay her rent at NYU if music didn't work out. He was very successful, having invented GuestWi-Fi, and her mother was a VP at Verizon. While it's clear Gaga was not as rich as her wildly wealthy classmates, not having parents who buy you a $600 purse doesn't mean your family doesn't have much money. Nick Harvey / WireImage via Getty Images 20. Taylor Swift has never explicitly claimed to have grown up poor, but many assumed she came from humble beginnings, especially due to her claims that she grew up on a farm. In "I Bet You Think About Me," she sings,"You grew up in a silver-spoon gated community, / glamorous, shiny, bright Beverly Hills. / I was raised on a farm, no, it wasn't a mansion / — just livin' room dancin' and kitchen table bills." She also noted she was from a Christmas tree farm specifically when she released her song "Christmas Tree Farm." Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for The Recording Academy While Swift did grow up on a farm, it was 11 acres and run by her father as a hobby. For his day job, he was a Merrill Lynch financial adviser — and comes from a long line of bank presidents. This was their home. They also had the money to move to Nashville so that Taylor could pursue a career in music. Evan Agostini / Getty Images 21. Finally, 21 Savage has often spoken about growing up in "the hood -hood" of Atlanta, and many articles noted he was born in Dominica. However, he's actually British — he moved to the US around age seven. Still, this one's a bit of a stretch, as it seems his teenage years were as tumultuous as he claims and that he wasn't necessarily well-off in England. That didn't stop the memes. Jerritt Clark / Getty Images for Live Nation Did any of these surprise you? Let us know in the comments!
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
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Blake Lively accuses 'It Ends With Us' costar of abusing the courts with countersuit
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Blake Lively asked a judge on Thursday to dismiss a countersuit filed against her by her 'It Ends With Us' costar Justin Baldoni, calling his claims 'vengeful and rambling' after she sued for sexual harassment and retaliation. Lively's lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that Baldoni and his production company's claims that he and his companies were defamed were a 'profound abuse of the legal process.' 'The law prohibits weaponizing defamation lawsuits, like this one, to retaliate against individuals who have filed legal claims or have publicly spoken out about sexual harassment and retaliation,' the lawyers said. Lively sought unspecified damages when she sued Baldoni in late December for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation. He countersued for $400 million, accusing Lively and her husband, 'Deadpool' actor Ryan Reynolds, of defamation and extortion. On Wednesday, lawyers for Reynolds filed papers in the countersuit urging that he be dismissed as a defendant from the countersuit to Lively's claims that Baldoni and related parties launched a social media campaign to 'destroy' her after she privately called out alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct against her and others on the movie set. 'So what does Ryan Reynolds have to do with that, legally speaking, other than being a supportive spouse who has witnessed firsthand the emotional, reputational and financial devastation Ms. Lively has suffered?' they wrote. In recent court papers, Baldoni's attorneys wrote that slanderous statements and actions by Lively and related parties had ruined their clients. 'Their reputations are destroyed, their businesses lie in tatters, and their own Film was taken from them,' they said in court papers. Both sides have accused the other of trying to ruin them. 'It Ends With Us,' an adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling 2016 novel that begins as a romance but takes a dark turn into domestic violence, was released in August, exceeding box office expectations with a $50 million debut. But the movie's release was shrouded by speculation over discord between Lively and Baldoni. Lively became widely known after she appeared in the 2005 film 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.' She bolstered her stardom on the TV series 'Gossip Girl' from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including 'The Town' and 'The Shallows.' Baldoni starred in the TV comedy 'Jane the Virgin,' directed the 2019 film 'Five Feet Apart' and wrote 'Man Enough,' a book pushing back against traditional notions of masculinity.
Associated Press
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Blake Lively accuses ‘It Ends With Us' costar of abusing the courts with countersuit
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Blake Lively asked a judge on Thursday to dismiss a countersuit filed against her by her 'It Ends With Us' costar Justin Baldoni, calling his claims 'vengeful and rambling' after she sued for sexual harassment and retaliation. Lively's lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that Baldoni and his production company's claims that he and his companies were defamed were a 'profound abuse of the legal process.' 'The law prohibits weaponizing defamation lawsuits, like this one, to retaliate against individuals who have filed legal claims or have publicly spoken out about sexual harassment and retaliation,' the lawyers said. Lively sought unspecified damages when she sued Baldoni in late December for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation. He countersued for $400 million, accusing Lively and her husband, 'Deadpool' actor Ryan Reynolds, of defamation and extortion. On Wednesday, lawyers for Reynolds filed papers in the countersuit urging that he be dismissed as a defendant from the countersuit to Lively's claims that Baldoni and related parties launched a social media campaign to 'destroy' her after she privately called out alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct against her and others on the movie set. 'So what does Ryan Reynolds have to do with that, legally speaking, other than being a supportive spouse who has witnessed firsthand the emotional, reputational and financial devastation Ms. Lively has suffered?' they wrote. In recent court papers, Baldoni's attorneys wrote that slanderous statements and actions by Lively and related parties had ruined their clients. 'Their reputations are destroyed, their businesses lie in tatters, and their own Film was taken from them,' they said in court papers. Both sides have accused the other of trying to ruin them. 'It Ends With Us,' an adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling 2016 novel that begins as a romance but takes a dark turn into domestic violence, was released in August, exceeding box office expectations with a $50 million debut. But the movie's release was shrouded by speculation over discord between Lively and Baldoni. Lively became widely known after she appeared in the 2005 film 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.' She bolstered her stardom on the TV series 'Gossip Girl' from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including 'The Town' and 'The Shallows.'
South China Morning Post
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Nora Ephron, queen of romcoms: a new book recalls the magic of her films
Some time around the turn of the millennium, Ilana Kaplan stumbled across a romantic comedy marathon on TV. Watching in her New Jersey home, she found herself mesmerised by You've Got Mail (1998), the Tom Hanks -Meg Ryan vehicle that is considered one of best romcoms of all time. 'I was completely enamoured by their chemistry. It made me feel like I wanted to live in a romcom and have that meet-cute experience,' says Kaplan. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the classic 1998 romcom You've Got Mail. Photo: Courtesy of the Everett Collection It was also Kaplan's first encounter with Nora Ephron, who directed and co-wrote the iconic film. Eventually, this led to another – and very different – kind of love story: the one between a fan and a filmmaker. After that first viewing of You've Got Mail , Kaplan says she's watched the film dozens of times, alongside other Ephron staples, chiefly Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and When Harry Met Sally (1989). And in one of those serendipitous turns of event usually found only in romantic comedies, Kaplan – a long-time writer and editor (New York Times, Rolling Stone) – was approached by Abrams Books a few years ago, and asked to write a book on Nora Ephron. The result, Nora Ephron at the Movies , was published last year. Nora Ephron at the Movies by Ilana Kaplan. Photo: Handout 'We wanted the films and her directorial work to be the central focus of the book,' says Kaplan, who now lives in Brooklyn, New York. 'We segmented her films by theme, and looked at themes that resonated in her work.' The book is more than just a comprehensive history of Ephron's life and work. It is also unabashedly a love letter to the writer – to her spirit and creativity, and the subtle optimism that ran through her work – even though her own life was marred by disappointments in love. It is written in a chatty, conversational tone – and with a very clear affection for the subject. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks with child actor Ross Malinger in Sleepless in Seattle (1993). Photo: Courtesy of the Everett Collection 'Nora was her words,' Kaplan writes. 'Copy was her currency – whether consumed on the page or on the screen. Every sharp, witty line is delivered with the brutal honesty of a best friend. It's what made her writing so relatable, so human. Even if you didn't know Nora, she knew you.' Considering Ephron's lineage, there was almost no way she could have not entered the entertainment industry. Her parents were Henry and Phoebe Ephron, both playwrights, screenwriters and directors. Her sisters Amy and Hallie are novelists, while another sister, Delia – who co-scripted You've Got Mail with Nora – also wrote films such as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and Hanging Up (2000).
