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Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesBlake LivelyLawyers condemn “further attacks”. Justin Baldoni and his team.
The New York Times they announced the news Dec. 21 that Lively sued Baldoni — her co-star and director in the film It ends with us — for sexual harassment. Baldoni denied all the allegations made against him in the lawsuit, which were obtained from My Weeklyand days later he was among 10 plaintiffs who launched a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times for covering Lively’s allegations.
On New Year’s Eve, Lively, 37, filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, in New York federal court, echoing her earlier claims that were filed with the California Department of Civil Rights. In addition to Baldoni, Lively is suing publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abelas well as Wayfarer Studios, Baldoni’s production company.
The actress’ lawyers informed about it People in a statement on Monday, Jan. 6, that Lively’s “serious allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation” are “supported by concrete facts.”
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s reported split made headlines months before the It Ends With Us co-stars filed lawsuits. While Lively and Baldoni were promoting the film in August 2024, rumors of an alleged feud between the pair began to circulate. Fans noticed that Lively was promoting the movie with some of her co-stars, while Baldoni, who (…)
“This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation,” the lawyers said in a statement. “As stated in Ms. Lively’s complaint and as we will demonstrate in the lawsuit, Wayfarer (Studios) and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms. Lively for simply trying to protect herself and others on the set of the movie. And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch more attacks against Ms. Lively since she filed it.”
The statement said: “Sexual harassment and retaliation are illegal in every workplace and in every industry. A classic tactic to deflect attention from allegations of this type of misconduct is to ‘blame the victim’ by implying that they instigated the conduct, brought it on themselves, misunderstood the intentions, or even lied.”
Lively’s team continued: “Another classic tactic is to reverse the victim and the perpetrator and suggest that the perpetrator is actually the victim. These concepts normalize and trivialize allegations of serious misconduct.”
And they concluded: “Most importantly, the media statements are not a defense of Ms. Lively’s legal claims. We will continue to pursue her claims in federal court, where the rule of law, not exaggeration and threats, decides who wins.”
The knives are well and truly out when it comes to Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s professional relationship. Both Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, claimed in their respective lawsuits that each was involved in creating different cuts of the film at the center of the drama It Ends With Us. In (…)
My Weekly approached Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedmanfor comment.
On Thursday, Jan. 2, Freedman said NBC news that he “absolutely” planned to sue Lively on behalf of his client.
“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.”
Earlier, he shared a statement with Ourpromising to “take down” The New York Times for his “malicious smear campaign”.
As regards Timessaid the spokesman Our that the outlet plans to “fight back vigorously.”
“The role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead,” it said in a Dec. 31 statement. “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.
