Blake Lively officially appealed to the court Justin Baldonithe lead role and director of the film It ends with us.
Lively, 37, filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, December 31. We Weekly can confirm. Apart from Baldoni, the actress is also suing publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer AbelIn association with Wayfarer Studios.
A lawsuit made an allegation of sexual harassmentretaliation, breach of contract, emotional distress, privacy and lost wages. The allegations parallel those made in Lively's complaint filed last week with the California Department of Civil Rights.
“Earlier today, Ms. Lively filed a federal complaint against Wayfarer Studios and other companies in the Southern District of New York,” he said. Us. “Mrs. Lively previously filed a Complaint with the California Department of Civil Rights in response to Wayfarer's retaliation campaign against her for reporting sexual harassment and workplace safety issues. “Unfortunately, Ms. Lively's decision to speak out resulted in further retaliation and attacks.”
The statement continued: “As alleged in Ms. Lively's federal Complaint, Wayfarer and its affiliates violated federal and California state laws by retaliating against Ms. Lively for reporting sexual harassment and workplace safety concerns. The defendants will now be held accountable in federal court for their conduct. Ms. Lively brought this proceeding in New York, where most of the related activities described in the Complaint occurred, but we reserve the right to take additional action in other locations and jurisdictions as required by law.”
Lively spoke about her legal actions in a statement on Saturday, December 21 We Weekly.
“I hope that my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these nasty retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about bad behavior and protect others who may be targeted,” he said.
The case comes the same day Baldoni He filed a lawsuit for 250 million dollars against The New York Times For reporting on Blake Lively's sexual harassment allegations.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
(Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)Baldoni was among 10 bidders, including publicists Natan and Abel Finish with us manufacturers James Heath and Steve Saraowitzin claim Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, December 31.
Plaintiffs sue for defamation and for fraudulent misrepresentation and claim that The New York Times “We Can Bury Anyone: Inside the Hollywood Smear Machine” 'cherry-picked' communications and omitted context to confuse readers.
piece written by Megan Twohey, Mike McIntire and Julie Tate Lively was allegedly sexually harassed by Baldoni for months and was published on Saturday, December 21.
The lawsuit alleges that Lively conducted a “strategic and manipulative” smear campaign against Baldoni (not the other way around), using false “sexual harassment allegations to gain unilateral control over every aspect of the production.”
After the lawsuit was filed, Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman The accusations published by Lively were named New York Times “Smear campaign”.
Blake Lively has sued Justin Baldoni, the lead actor and director of the movie Break Up, for sexual harassment. According to the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ and The New York Times, Baldoni's alleged behavior caused Lively, 37, “severe emotional distress.” The suit alleges that a meeting was held to address Lively's allegations of “hostility.” […]
“This evil smear campaign was completely orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team New York Times Fearing the whims and caprices of two powerful 'untouchable' Hollywood elites, ignoring journalistic practices and ethics befitting a once-respectable outlet, using falsified and manipulated texts and deliberately omitting texts that challenge their preferred PR narrative,” he said. Us On Tuesday, December 31. “In doing so, they pre-determined the outcome of their story and aided their own destructive PR smear campaign designed to revive Lively's self-inflicted public image and counter the organic basis of criticism. online public. The irony is rich.”
He continued, “But make no mistake, for we are all bound together to fall NY Times we will continue this campaign of authenticity by no longer allowing the public to be deceived, but also by suing those who abuse their power to destroy my clients' lives. While their side accepts partial truths, we accept the whole truth – and we have all the communications to back it up. The public will decide how it decided when it first started.”
Baldoni emphatically did before He denied all of Lively's allegations Through Freedman, he called the accusations “absolutely false, outrageous and intentionally demeaning.” Us. The statement also claimed that Lively filed the lawsuit to “redress her negative reputation” and “reinvigorate the narrative” surrounding the film's production.
