The It Ends With Us director sold his Culver City house in August, Page Six reports, months after relocating to Tennessee while his legal fight with Blake Lively played out
Justin Baldoni has sold his three-bedroom home in Culver City, California, for $2.1m (about £1.6m), Page Six has reported. The It Ends With Us director sold the house off-market in August, having bought it in 2017 for $1.04m. He, his wife Emily Baldoni and their two children moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in January, as his legal dispute with Blake Lively continued. The report does not link the sale to the litigation, and nothing in the public record suggests it was connected.
The Culver City sale
Page Six said it could exclusively confirm the sale. The house, built in 1952, has three bedrooms and three bathrooms on a 5,736 sq ft lot, with a swimming pool, wood-vaulted ceilings and new finishes. Baldoni bought it as a fixer-upper and spent three years renovating. In 2020 he told Instagram followers he had spent that time “Feng Shui-ing the heck out of the house”. “So much love has gone into this house, that to say it’s been a labor of love is an understatement,” he wrote.
The sale price is about $1.06m above what he paid. Page Six described that as profit, but the figure does not account for the renovations, selling costs, financing or tax, so the real return is unknown. The buyer has not been identified.
Nashville and Ojai
The family bought a house in Nashville for $3.4m. The New York Post, citing property records, reported that it was bought through a trust in August 2025, months before the move in January 2026. It is a newly built home of six bedrooms and about 7,000 sq ft on roughly an acre, AOL reported. Baldoni, 42, keeps a five-bedroom Spanish-style estate in Ojai, California, which he bought for about $2.12m in 2020. He listed it for $8.88m in April and it came off the market last month. Realtor.com reported a listing dated 5 February, so the April date should be treated with caution. The New York Post also reported it had been marketed as a $40,000-a-month rental, but no rental has been confirmed. Whether it will be relisted is unclear.
The legal backdrop
On 26 August, US District Judge Lewis Liman ordered Baldoni and his production company to pay $407,452 of Ms Lively’s legal costs, according to Reuters. That was $363,245 in fees and $44,206 in other costs, against about $8.04m requested, or around 5%. The judge said he considered the case complex enough to justify high hourly rates but criticised the hours billed and gaps in explanations. He excluded costs not tied to the defamation claims, including public-relations work. Both sides agreed not to appeal the remaining fees issue, Reuters reported.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, told Variety the ruling was a victory because Ms Lively recovered only a small part of what she sought. Her lawyers, Esra Hudson and Michael Gottlieb, said it showed the consequences for those who sue people reporting sexual misconduct. Those are the lawyers’ positions, not judicial findings about either party’s motives.
The case settled in May 2026, before a trial set for 18 May, with no payment between the two, Variety and the Los Angeles Times reported. The judge had earlier dismissed ten of Ms Lively’s 13 claims, including sexual harassment claims that could not proceed under the employment-law provisions because she was treated as an independent contractor. That did not amount to a finding on whether alleged incidents happened. Three claims survived, including retaliation allegations. Baldoni denied the misconduct and retaliation allegations. His separate $250m defamation suit against The New York Times was dismissed, with the judge concluding that its reporting was a protected fair account of legal proceedings.
In July, Mr and Mrs Baldoni appeared in a video discussing the family’s distress over the dispute, The Guardian reported. A source close to Baldoni told Us Weekly in June that he was concentrating on family life. That is attributed reporting and does not explain the sale.
