Blake Lively’s attorneys have just lately claimed that Justin Baldoni’s authorized crew plans to launch “extra assaults” in opposition to the actress.
On January 6, the It Ends With Us star’s authorized crew spoke to PEOPLE in an announcement that her “critical claims of sexual harassment and retaliation are backed by concrete information”.
Blake’s crew famous that that is “not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘inventive variations’ or a ‘he mentioned/she mentioned’ scenario”.
“As alleged in Blake’s criticism, and as we are going to show in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing in opposition to Ms. Lively for merely attempting to guard herself and others on a film set,” learn the assertion.
Blake’s lawyer shared that the “response to the lawsuit has been to launch extra assaults” in opposition to the actress after her submitting.
The assertion additional learn, “Sexual harassment and retaliation are unlawful in each office and each trade.”
Blake’s crew wrote in an announcement that the “traditional tactic to distract from allegations of this sort of misconduct is responsible the sufferer by suggesting that they invited the conduct, introduced it on themselves, misunderstood the intentions, and even lied”.
Sharing one other traditional tactic within the assertion is “to reverse the sufferer and offender, and counsel that the offender is the sufferer. These ideas normalise and trivialise allegations of great misconduct”.
“Most importantly, media statements usually are not a protection to Blake’s authorized claims,” acknowledged the Green Lantern actress’ authorized crew.
It added, “We will proceed to prosecute her claims in federal courtroom, the place the rule of regulation determines who prevails, not hyperbole and threats.”
For the unversed, Blake first filed a criticism in opposition to Justin and others, together with companions and publicists, accusing sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear marketing campaign to damage the actress’ picture in public.
Meanwhile, Justin’s attorneys denied the allegations and on December 31, 2024, the actor-director additionally filed a $250 million lawsuit in opposition to The New York Times over the newspaper’s article about Blake’s criticism.
