Justin Baldoni is taking legal action against the New York Times for its coverage of Blake Lively’s allegations against him
Los Angeles: So, Justin Baldoni, you know, the guy from *It Ends With Us*, is suing the New York Times. It’s all about how they reported on Blake Lively’s allegations against him. Pretty wild, right?
Blake filed a lawsuit saying Justin caused her a lot of emotional distress while they were filming. She claims he even started a smear campaign against her after she raised some concerns. Talk about drama!
The Times ran a big story on this, and now Baldoni is saying they twisted the facts. He’s not alone in this; he’s got nine other plaintiffs with him, and they’re going after the paper for a whopping $250 million!
In the lawsuit, they argue that the Times took things out of context and only shared Lively’s side of the story. Baldoni’s team is really pushing back, saying the reporting was misleading.
And guess what? Baldoni is also thinking about counter-suing Lively. His lawyer hinted that this counter-suit is going to be explosive, claiming Lively’s PR team was the one spreading the rumors, not him.
His lawyer, Bryan Freedman, is pretty fired up about this. He’s been in the game for over 30 years and says he’s never seen anything like this level of media manipulation. Sounds intense!
Meanwhile, Lively’s publicist is denying any claims that they tried to smear Baldoni. She says they were just responding to press inquiries about the allegations. It’s a real he-said-she-said situation.
In her lawsuit, Lively mentioned some pretty specific requests she made to the studio after raising concerns about Baldoni’s behavior. She wanted things like no more nude videos shown around her and no discussions about his past. Seems like she was really trying to set some boundaries.
After all this went down, Baldoni reportedly got dropped by his management agency. It’s a lot to unpack, and it looks like this legal battle is just getting started!
