Justin Baldoni Seeks Unsealing of Wayfarer Exec’s ‘2 Dead Bodies’ Rant

Lawyers for Blake Lively Say Case-Clinching Evidence of A Retaliation Sccheme: Secretly-Recorded 2024 Audio in Which Studio Executive Sarowitz Says “there will be two dead bodies” if the Husband Ryan Reynolds “Ever Cross the Line.” “

SO FAR, A Transcript of that recording, Do you key ejibit in a nine-month court Battle Over the 2024 hit Movie “it ends with us,” Has remained sealed on Lively’s Request.

But on Thursday, Lively’s Opponents in Her Oncegoing Lithigation Against Costar Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and Millionaire Paylocity Founder Sarowitz Asked a Manhattan Judge to lift that Seal and release the transcript.

The Entirety of Sarowitz’s Remarks – Not Just what Lively’s Side Calls The “Dead Bodies Threat” – Needs to Be Public, Lawyers for Baldoni Defendants Arged.

Attorneys for Lively and for Sarowitz, Wayfarer, and Baldoni did not immediately respond to a Request for Comment on the Filing, Which Argues, “Mr. Sarowitz Should Be Allowed to Have the Entire Public to Esure Acuracy and Provide.”

The Excerpts Surfaced on September 9, as part of a spin-off Lawsuit in Which Lively Seeks Cash Compensation-Including Legal Fees and Working Damages-From A Baldoni Defamation Countersuit that was dysmissed in june.

Accounting to Lively’s Side, Sarowitz Called A Meeting In August 2024 with an unnaamed Witness, Someone Identified Only As Individual Who Was Was Wayfarer on a Project Unrelated to “It Ends with Us.”

During the Meeting, The Unnaamed Witness Secretly Recorded Sarowitz Saying, “that if Ms. Lively or Mr. Reynolds Ever Cross the Line, Ever, I will go after, ‘” Lively’s Lawyers Wrote.

“I Will Protect the Studio like Israel Protected Itself from Hamas,” They Quote Sarowitz Saying. “There were 39,000 Dead Bodies. There will be two dead bodies when i’m Done,” They Said the Movie Executive Continued.

“Minimum. Not Dead, but ‘You’re Dead to Me.’ SO that Kind of Dead.

Sarowitz, A Wayfarer Cofounder and Financial Who Lively’s Lawyers Ref to As “a multimillionaire,” Went on to promise, “i’m gonna spend a lot to make sura the studio is protected.”

The Call Supports A Key Accusation in Lively’s December 2024 Lawsuit, Which Alleges that the Baldonon Defendants Schemed to Retaliate Lively for Reporting Sexual Harassment on the Set, Her Lawyers Argued This Month.

But the identity of the witness who recorded the call must remain sealed, her side argued, along with the call transcript and related filings quoting directly from the witness and describing the Circumstances of the Call.

Baldon’s Team Aggreed Only to the Sealing of the Witness’s Name and the Title of the Project the Witness Workhed on With Sarrowitz.

The rest? Publish, They Argted, Citting the First Amendment and Caselaw Establishing the Presumption of Immediate Public Access to Judicial Documents.

“Certainly, any privacy interest Belongs to Mr. Sarowitz – The person who was recorded with his conssent,” The Baldoni Legal Team Argued.

“He Should be permitted to have the public Hear the Entire audio recording and not be confined solely to live and out-of-context purported transcription of the audio recording,” They Arged.

US District Judge Lewis Liman, Who Sites in Manhattan, Has Set a March 2026 Jury Trial for the Lively Versus Baldoni Lawsuit. He did not immediately rule on the sarowitz seaing matter.