Justin Baldoni's attorney announced plans for the actor to sue Blake Lively in response to her ongoing sexual harassment and defamation lawsuits. Baldoni vehemently denies Lively's allegations and intends to release all text messages between them to support his case.
Have YOU got a story? EmailJustin Baldoni 'absolutely' plans to sue Blake Lively back amid their spiraling legal battle, his attorney announced this Thursday.
Her December 31 filing came on the same day Baldoni initiated a $250M libel action against the New York Times for its bombshell report on Lively's first complaint. Lively's lawsuits include screen-grabs of text messages by Baldoni, Abel and Nathan, supposedly showing a PR takedown of the actress being planned.
Freedman argues that those texts disprove Lively's claim that Baldoni would enter her trailer 'uninvited while she was undressed, including while she was breastfeeding.' Her second lawsuit was filed on the same day Baldoni initiated a $250M libel action against the New York Times for its bombshell report on Lively's first complaint
Her lawyers provided a statement to DailyMail.com Tuesday, saying: 'Earlier today, Ms. Lively filed a federal complaint against Wayfarer Studios and others in the Southern District of New York. On New Year’s Eve, the day Lively filed her second lawsuit against Baldoni, he initiated a $250 million libel action against the New York Times, which broke the news of Lively’s first complaint earlier in December.
Since news of Lively's first lawsuit broke, Baldoni's career has imploded, as he was dropped by his agency William Morris Endeavor. Lively's first lawsuit contained a raft of accusations against Baldoni, whom she says showed her nude images and videos of other women, 'improvised physical intimacy' during a scene without prior discussion, entered her trailer while she was 'nude' and allowed his 'friends' to watch her filming sex scenes.
In Baldoni's version of events, Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds are accused of 'bullying' him during a fraught confrontation at the couple's New York penthouse. 'They arrived eager to discuss plans for the next day's filming, prepared with their production materials. Instead, they were blindsided by Lively and Reynolds, who presented a list of grievances that were both unanticipated and troubling,' Baldoni's legal filing claims.
'When Baldoni resisted apologizing for what he had not done, Reynolds became further enraged. Everyone, including the producer Lively had asked production to engage and a representative of Sony that was in attendance, left that"meeting" in shock. The producer offered that in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that.'
Lively's first complaint included purported screen-grabs of text messages, many of them between Nathan and Abel, allegedly showing the PR takedown being planned. She allegedly also texted Abel: 'Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands. You know we can bury anyone but I can't write that to him. I will be very tough.'
Along with her claims of sexual harassment, Lively's first complaint accused Baldoni of 'other behaviors that were shocking and emotionally distressing.'
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