How Blake Lively Landed Time 100 Spot in the midst of $ 400 million intimidation scandal

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Lively showed gratitude about the honor on social media, in particular SherriSyn IFILL thanked.
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The 37-year-old is called 100 “titan” for a while, joins a power-pack crew, including Simone Biles, Joe Rogan and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos.
Lively shared the news on social media and wrote: “It is an honor to be recognized on the @Time 100 list for 2025.
“To write about the big @SherriSynifill is not something that I take lightly. Her work has formed our nation.
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The recognition comes in the midst of Lively’s enormous legal fight against her ‘it ends with us’ co-star Justin Baldoni.
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“Who she is – if a person, woman, mother, leader, hunter, healer, empath, risky and dream maker – has formed my heart and also my endurance to never stop believing in a future that is better and safer for everyone.”
She continued: “Thanks @Time and thanks @SherriSynifill for one of the most surrealistic and meaningful moments of my life in this honor.
“My 10 -year -old itself is now quite blown away.”
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In a statement to TIMECivil-Rights Attorney Sherryn Ifill said: “I don’t know the Blake Lively from the red carpet. Or Gala. I never watched Gossip girl.
“The Blake Lively that I know is a philanthropist and a student of the most unmanageable problems in our country.”
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Ifill shared Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, awarded for the first time in 2019 to offer a donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
She noted that she had received similar phone calls as the work of the organization on the oppression of voters and the brutality of the police received national traction.
What she noticed, however, was how thoroughly lively had prepared herself.
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She said, “Those with whom I stayed in relationships are those who, like Blake, really did their homework.”
IFILL said she was immediately impressed by Lively’s curiosity and genuine efforts to describe the systemic problems with which the country is confronted, the actress described as ‘a serious person’, a risk -in -law and someone who was deeply committed to making progress – not only for her own children, but also for others.
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Comments about Lively’s message have been “limited”, so they have generally been positive – with one person who wrote: “Unbelievable! I always admire that you stand up for what is good and her words emphasize that perfect.”
On X, however, the reaction has not been so hospitable.
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Baldoni claimed that lively and husband Ryan Reynolds led a smear campaign against him.
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One person wrote: “The game is rigged, it’s time to turn the table.”
Another one struck: “Oh, she is influential good when it comes to malicious destruction of the career of an innocent man. Takes a real narcissist to do that -Karma comes for her.”
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Earlier this week we revealed that the Legal War against Lively and Baldoni had taken a new turn about the authenticity of a summons.
The document is said to have been sent to Baldoni’s former PR Stephanie Jones and to transfer her instructed sensitive SMS messages to Lively – what she did.
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His lawyers, however, doubted whether the document was valid because it was supposedly sent before legal steps were taken through both sides.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, claimed that Jones deliberately leaked private communication from resentment – with the aim of delivering the reputation and business of her former customers.
He claimed that this happened before legitimate summons was presented.

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Baldoni and Lively are bumping over her accused accusations of intimidation for months and his claim that she trivialized the message for domestic violence of the film.
The Gossip Star accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and damaged her reputation, while Baldoni countered – claiming that Lively and her husband orchestrated a smear campaign to destroy his name.
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The Legal War against Lively and Baldoni recently took a new turn of the authenticity of a summons.
In its lawsuit of $ 400 million, Baldoni accused the New York Times From “cherry picking” details and manipulating crucial communication to “intentionally” misleading readers.
The legal proceedings between the It ends with us Stars are planned to start in March 2026.