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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.
(Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)Justin Baldoniwith a lawyer Bryan Freedman he “absolutely” plans to sue Blake Lively on behalf of your client.
Freedman asked NBC news in an interview on Thursday, Jan. 2, whether he planned to sue Lively, 37, on behalf of the company It ends with us director. Freedman replied, “Absolutely… yes.”
“We plan to release every single text message between the two of them,” Freedman said. “We want the truth out there. We want the documents to be there. We want people to make decisions based on receipts.”
Coming after Baldonim, 40, filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday, December 31. The actor and director is suing for defamation and false light invasion of privacy after The New York Times coverage of Lively’s costar after she sued him for sexual harassment.
It Ends With Us director and star Justin Baldoni has filed a lawsuit against The New York Times after it reported on star Blake Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment. Baldoni, 40, filed a $250 million lawsuit against Lively, 37, on Tuesday, Dec. 31, in Los Angeles Superior Court, Us Weekly can confirm. (…)
Baldoni was one of 10 plaintiffs actionwhich also includes publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel as well as It ends with a Uwith manufacturers James Heath and Steve Saraowitzwho initiated legal proceedings against this medium.
That same day, Baldoni filed suit The New York Times, Lively has officially filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, Nathan and Abel along with Wayfarer Studios in Southern New York.
The suit alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages. The claims match Lively’s complaints filed last week with the California Office of Civil Rights.
He spoke vividly about her legal actions through a statement on Saturday, December 21 at My Weekly.
“I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about wrongdoing and help protect others who may be targeted,” she said.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
(Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)AND New York Times said the spokesman My Weekly in a statement on Tuesday, Dec. 31, that the outlet plans to “vigorously defend itself against the lawsuit.”
“The role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead,” the statement said. “Our story was carefully and responsibly reported. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including text messages and emails, which we quote accurately and extensively in the article. Those texts and emails were also at the heart of a discrimination lawsuit filed in California by Blake Lively against Justin Baldoni and his associates.
The statement continued: “To address some of the inaccuracies in the lawsuit, when we requested comments from Mr. Baldoni and others mentioned in the article, The Times shared information we intended to publish, including links to specific text messages and documents, requested is to identify any inaccuracies, provide additional context, and speak to our team. Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer and the other entities chose not to converse with The Times or address any of the specific text messages or documents, instead emailing a joint response that was published in full. (They also sent their response to The Times at 11:16 p.m. ET on Dec. 20, not 2:16 a.m. ET on Dec. 21, as stated in the complaint.)
Lively’s attorney said in response to Baldoni’s filing of the lawsuit Our on Tuesday, Dec. 31, that the lawsuit was based on a “manifestly flawed premise.”
“Nothing in this lawsuit alters the claims presented in Ms. Lively’s California Department of Civil Rights complaint or her federal complaint filed today,” the statement said. “This lawsuit is based on the patently incorrect premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaint against Wayfarer and others was a ruse based on a decision ‘not to file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer,’ and that ‘litigation was never her ultimate goal.'” As demonstrated by the federal complaint that filed today by Ms. Lively, this frame of reference for the Wayfarer lawsuit is bogus.While we won’t address the matter in print, we encourage people to read Ms. Lively’s complaint in its entirety. We look forward to addressing each of Wayfarer’s allegations in court.”
Freedman also shared a statement with My Weeklypromising to “take down” The New York Times for his “naughty smear campaign”.
“In this brutal smear campaign completely orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team New York Times hidden from the desires and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, disregarding the journalistic practices and ethics once befitting a revered publication, using edited and manipulated texts and deliberately omitting texts that challenge their chosen PR narrative,” he said in a statement. Our on Tuesday, December 31. “By doing so, they predetermined the outcome of their story and aided and abetted their own devastating PR smear campaign to revive Lively’s self-inflicted decaying image and counter an organic wave of criticism among the online public. The irony is rich.”
He continued, “Make no mistake though, for we shall all unite to descend NY Times by no longer allowing them to deceive the public, we will continue this campaign of authenticity by also suing those individuals who have abused their power to try to destroy my clients’ lives. While their side accepts partial truths, we accept the full truth – and we have all the communications to support it. The public will make up their own minds as they did when it started.”
