Warring co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s legal feud is now officially underway, as the former has launched the saga with a formal lawsuit targeting The New York Times. After suing US news outlets for $250 million it ends with us According to PEOPLE, the group of nine other plaintiffs, including the director and his production company Wayfarer Studios, alleges defamation, perjury, mild invasion of privacy, promissory note fraud and breach of implied contract.
Baldoni’s 87-page complaint, filed on New Year’s Eve, addresses a Times article titled, “‘We Can Buy Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine”, which was published by Lively in her initial complaint against it. Was published immediately after filing. jane the virgin Experienced. Taking it straight to heart, Baldoni started the new year on the offensive, ruthlessly naming Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds while accusing the Hollywood couple of strategically coming after him.
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Without mincing his words, the actor-director-producer has alleged green Lantern The pair “bully” him. He specifically details the events of the alleged January 4, 2024 meeting, which was held at Lively and Reynolds’ New York penthouse, where the Deadpool icon allegedly “insulted” her.
According to the Daily Mail, Baldoni launched a verbal attack against the ‘Marvel Jesus’ for “aggressively” accusing him of multiple crimes against his wife, including “fat shaming”.
The pair organized the aforementioned January 4 meeting, to which Baldoni and other producers were invited along with a Sony representative. The filing states that everyone “came prepared with their production materials, eager to discuss plans for the next day’s filming.” However, Lively and Reynolds “blindsided” him by presenting a list of complaints that was both unexpected and troubling.
Baldoni described the encounter as “traumatic” and claimed to have “never been talked to like that in his life.” The lawsuit alleges that Ryan Reynolds demanded Baldoni apologize to his wife, but it ends with us The directors considered the reasons to be inaccurate and patently false. The filing states that Justin stood by his words and said that he never did these things. However, this only made Reynolds ‘further angry’.
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Following the mentioned gathering at the NY Penthouse, attendees were left in “shock”. Furthermore, Baldoni says that once filming ended, Lively was all over the project. Promising that more lawsuits would be filed in the coming days, Baldoni’s lawyer, Brian Friedman, (along with his publicists) presented a trove of receipts – text messages, emails and WhatsApp evidence that incriminates gossip Girl star of “hostile capture” It ends with us.
Their filing asserts that Lively was the reason Justin Baldoni had to walk the red carpet alone. The lawsuit harshly criticizes her and Reynolds for allegedly using their influential positions to damage their reputations and even trying their best to prevent them from attending film premieres.
