Ryan Reynolds buys another soccer club amid lawsuit with Justin Baldoni

Justin Baldoni’s caller $400 cardinal suit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds isn’t stopping the second from expanding his shot empire aft antecedently taking co-ownership of Welsh squad Wrexham.

The “Deadpool & Wolverine” histrion is 1 of the aggregate celebrity investors who person acquired stake successful Columbian nine La Equidad. The group, led by capitalist Al Tylis and shot enforcement Sam Porter, besides includes histrion Eva Longoria, retired NBA prima Shawn Marion, San Francisco Giants pitcher Justin Verlander and his wife, exemplary Kate Upton.

“We invited Al Tylis and Sam Porter, who get with a clear, semipermanent imaginativeness to proceed strengthening our club,” La Equidad said successful a statement Thursday connected societal media. “Al Tylis and Sam Porter not lone person extended acquisition successful the sports satellite but they besides person the enactment of recognized figures specified arsenic Eva Longoria, Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Verlander, Kate Upton, Shawn Marion and Scott Galloway.”

The announcement came conscionable arsenic Reynolds was named arsenic a suspect successful a $400 cardinal suit filed by Baldoni, his wife’s manager and co-star successful “It Ends With Us.”

According to the filing obtained by TMZ, Baldoni is accusing Reynolds, Lively, and her publicist Leslie Sloane of defamation, civilian extortion and interference with contractual relations successful transportation to allegations that they planned a run to smear Baldoni and organized a strategy to instrumentality implicit originative power connected the film, among different accusations.

Baldoni claims helium was ambushed by Reynolds and Lively, arsenic good arsenic her pal Taylor Swift, who utilized their personage presumption to unit him to judge changes to the script. He besides says Lively threatened to not bash promotion unless she got to chopped her ain mentation of the film.

As tensions roseate amid the property tour, Baldoni says the histrion and her publicist embarked connected a run to “make Baldoni the real-life villain” successful bid to deflect from the public’s increasing antagonistic sentiment of Lively’s “tone-deaf” attack to promoting a movie astir home violence.

The latest suit follows 1 from Lively, who sued Baldoni successful December for alleged intersexual harassment and orchestrating his ain smear run against her.