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Justin Baldoni is seeking at least $400 million in damages in the lawsuit filed against It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds. Previously, Lively filed her own lawsuit against Baldoni and others 10 days after lodging a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, in which she claimed her It Ends With Us co-star orchestrated a malicious smear campaign to ruin her reputation as retaliation for her complaints about Baldoni's sexual harassment on set.
According to Variety, Baldoni and his publicists accuse Lively and Reynolds of civil extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy in the lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, January 16, 2025, which seeks $400 million in damages. The lawsuit, which contains a 179-page complaint, alleged the couple deployed "their enormous power to steal an entire film" and "bend the truth" with sexual harassment allegations. Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freeman, has given an official statement alongside the lawsuit. Check out what he said below:
This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media. It is clear based on our own all out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret.
Blake Lively was either severely misled by her team or intentionally and knowingly misrepresented the truth. Ms. Lively will never again be allowed to continue to exploit actual victims of real harassment solely for her personal reputation gain at the expense of those without power. Let’s not forget, Ms. Lively and her team attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons through their own dangerous manipulation of the media before even taking any actual legal action. We know the truth, and now the public does too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide, documents do not lie.
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Source: Variety
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