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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.
Getty Images (2)Justin Baldonilawyer Bryan Freedman shot back at Blake Livelyresponse to the director’s $400 million lawsuit.
“After my clients filed a voluminous lawsuit packed with nearly 200 pages of irrefutable facts and documentary evidence that crushed their false allegations of a smear campaign by providing them with falsified communications. The New York TimesBlake and her legal team have only one disgusting clue left, and that is to double down on the disgustingly false sexual allegations against Mr. Baldoni,” Freedman said. Period in a statement dated Saturday, January 18.
Baldoni, 40 years old, sued Lively, 37, earlier this weekis seeking $400 million in damages. In the submission obtained OurBaldoni’s legal team claimed that Lively was “determined to make Baldoni the real villain in her story” to cover up her alleged “tone deaf” promotion of their film. It ends with us.
Baldoni directed and starred in the 2024 adaptation Colleen Hoovera novel about an abusive relationship. He vividly portrayed the lead character Lily Bloom on screen and also served as an executive producer. Baldoni played Lily’s husband, Ryle Kincaid.
Justin Baldoni is leaning on his loved ones amid his ongoing legal battle against Blake Lively. “We’re grateful to be with family, man,” Baldoni, 40, told photographers on Friday, Jan. 17, at Los Angeles International Airport in a video obtained by TMZ. “We have amazing friends, family and faith. Baldoni shares daughter Maiya, (…)
Months after the film premieres in August 2024, Live accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and promote a “hostile work environment”. She also alleged in her December 2024 lawsuit that Baldoni attempted to coordinate a concerted campaign to destroy her reputation. (Freedman, on behalf of Baldoni, denied the allegations at the time.)
Shortly after Baldoni sued Lively last week — also naming her husband, Ryan Reynoldsand their team of suit-wearing publicists — denied the allegations.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
Theo Wargo/WireImage“This latest lawsuit by Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their associates is another chapter in the abuser’s playbook. This is the age-old story: A woman comes forward with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the abuser tries to turn the tables on the victim.” Lively’s lawyers said Our in the statement. “The experts call this DARVO. Refuse. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender. Wayfarer decided to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to issue media statements, launch frivolous lawsuits, and threaten lawsuits to overwhelm the public’s ability to understand that what they were doing was retaliation for sexual harassment allegations.
Update: 1/7/24, 12:00 PM ET – Bryan Freedman, who is Justin Baldoni’s attorney, released the following statement in response to Lively’s team: “It’s painfully ironic that Blake Lively is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when it’s her own . team orchestrated this vicious attack by sending the New York Times heavily redacted documents before (…)
The publicists named in the lawsuit also issued a statement.
“It is devastating that we are forced to respond to this cruelly self-serving ongoing lawsuit filled with documented and demonstrable lies in the midst of a tragedy that has struck California where we live,” the statement said. Our reads. “Five months ago, Ms. Lively chose to promote a film about domestic violence in a way that generated an immediate negative and organic response due to her own highly publicized actions. Instead of accepting responsibility, she chose to accuse us cruelly. This malicious attack on privacy by Ms Lively and her team in which they chose to spoon feed The New York Times with falsified, out-of-context and edited text messages in an attempt to portray themselves as the victim set off a chain of events that was extremely damaging.”
The report continued: “To be clear, Ms. Lively and her team launched this smear campaign in the media with the sole intention of garnering undeserved public sympathy for her own misdeeds. Over the past month we have received death threats, vile abuse and vile anti-Semitic slurs hurled at us for her decision to use us as scapegoats for her own decision to promote her multi-million dollar movie. With this submission, we will lift our own curtain on what happens when the privileged weaponize power, fear and money to destroy, intimidate and bully those who get in their way.”
Baldoni, meanwhile, was focus on your family in light of the situation.
“We’re thankful to be with family, man,” he told photographers at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, Jan. 17. “We have amazing friends, family and faith.
Baldoni shares daughter Maiya (9) and son Maxwell (7) with his wife. Emily Baldoni.
