In a shocking twist, actor and director Justin Baldoni has lately filed a lawsuit towards his It Ends with Us co-stars Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, looking for hefty £320 million in damages.
The ongoing authorized battle, which despatched shockwaves by way of Hollywood, centered round claims that Baldoni wronged his co-star Lively in the course of the manufacturing of their movie.
A Simple Favor star kicked issues off by submitting a lawsuit towards the director in December 2024, as she accused him of sexual harassment and operating marketing campaign to spoil her popularity.
Baldoni has now taken authorized motion towards Lively, Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane, and her PR agency, Vision PR, making it clear that the gloves are off.
Baldoni is now suing Lively, Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and her PR agency, Vision PR—speak about throwing a authorized wrench into the works.
The actor’s attorneys filed the lawsuit in the present day (16 January) within the Southern District of New York on behalf of the 40-year-old actor, together with producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel, and disaster PR specialist Melissa Nathan.
His lawyer mentioned to LADbible group: “This lawsuit is a authorized motion based mostly on an awesome quantity of untampered proof detailing Blake Lively and her crew’s duplicitous try to destroy Justin Baldoni, his crew and their respective corporations by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored info to the media.”
“It is evident based mostly on our personal all out willingness to offer all full textual content messages, emails, video footage and different documentary proof that was shared between the events in actual time, that this can be a battle she won’t win and will definitely remorse,” he added.
He went on explaining: “Blake Lively was both severely misled by her crew or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality. Ms. Lively won’t ever once more be allowed to proceed to use precise victims of actual harassment solely for her private popularity acquire on the expense of these with out energy.”
“Let’s not overlook, Ms. Lively and her crew tried to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously egocentric causes by way of their very own harmful manipulation of the media earlier than even taking any precise authorized motion. We know the reality, and now the general public does too. Justin and his crew don’t have anything to cover, paperwork don’t lie.”
