Justin Baldoni’s company is suing Blake Lively for $400,000,000 as bizarre claims about her apparent on-set behavior have been revealed.
Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR are also being sued by Baldoni’s team.
Baldoni is suing on on claims of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, as well as prospective economic advantage, negligent interference with prospective economic advantage and intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.
Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s lawyer, said: “This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media.
“It is clear based on our own all out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret. Blake Lively was either severely misled by her team or intentionally and knowingly misrepresented the truth.
“Ms. Lively will never again be allowed to continue to exploit actual victims of real harassment solely for her personal reputation gain at the expense of those without power.
“Let’s not forget, Ms. Lively and her team attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons through their own dangerous manipulation of the media before even taking any actual legal action. We know the truth, and now the public does too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide, documents do not lie.”
UNILAD has reached out to Lively and Reynolds’ representatives for comment.
Speculation mounted surrounding Baldoni and Lively’s alleged ‘friction’, while Lively also found herself being slammed online during the film’s press tour.
And last month, Lively filed a federal lawsuit in New York accusing It Ends with Us co-star and director Baldoni of sexual harassment and ‘trying to destroy her reputation’ – accusations of which Baldoni’s team has branded ‘categorically false’.
Freedman has previously slammed the New York Times, who initially leaked Lively’s lawsuit, saying: “It’s ironic that the New York Times, through their effort to ‘uncover’ an insidious PR effort, played directly into the hands of Lively’s own dubious PR tactics by publishing leaked personal text exchanges that lack critical context – the very same tactics she’s accusing the firm of implementing.”
While the publication defended its story as ‘meticulously and responsibly reported’.
