Blake Lively‘s legal team is responding to Justin Baldoni‘s lawsuit against The New York Times.
All of the drama surrounding the It Ends With Us hit a peak last week when Blake filed a legal complaint against Justin, citing sexual harassment and a smear campaign, which he has denied through his legal team.
Justin then filed a $250 million libel lawsuit against the Times on New Year’s Eve, claiming the paper “‘cherry-picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.”
Justin‘s lawyer told Variety that the Times “cowered to the wants and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, disregarding journalistic practices and ethics once befitting of the revered publication by using doctored and manipulated texts and intentionally omitting texts which dispute their chosen PR narrative.”
On the same day, Blake formally filed a lawsuit against Justin that was based on the claims made in her previous complaint.
Now, Blake‘s team has issued a response to Justin‘s claims in his lawsuit.
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“Nothing in this lawsuit changes anything about the claims advanced in Ms. Lively’s California Civil Rights Department Complaint, nor her federal complaint, filed earlier today,” Blake‘s legal team told Deadline.
“This lawsuit is based on the obviously false premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaint against Wayfarer and others was a ruse based on a choice ‘not to file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer,’ and that ‘litigation was never her ultimate goal,” the statement continued. “As demonstrated by the federal complaint filed by Ms. Lively earlier today, that frame of reference for the Wayfarer lawsuit is false. While we will not litigate this matter in the press, we do encourage people to read Ms. Lively’s complaint in its entirety. We look forward to addressing each and every one of Wayfarer’s allegations in court.”
Look back at the 10 biggest allegations mentioned in Blake‘s legal documents and see a recap all of the celebs that are named in her suit.
