Blake Lively has responded by way of her authorized crew to Justin Baldoni’s studio submitting a brand new lawsuit in opposition to her, her publicist Leslie Sloan and her husband Ryan Reynolds.
The submitting, obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, January 16, seeks damages of $400 million and accuses Vigorous, 37, of being “decided to make Baldoni the real-life villain in her story” to avert from her alleged “tone-deaf” promotion of It Ends With Us, the movie which Baldoni, 40, and Vigorous labored on collectively. The lawsuit additionally accommodates accusations of civil extortion, defamation, false gentle invasion of privateness among other claims.
Vigorous’s authorized crew hit again on the Baldoni camp’s “determined” technique, sharing a press release with Us Weekly on Thursday, January 16 in response.
“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is one other chapter within the abuser playbook. That is an age-old story: A lady speaks up with concrete proof of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser makes an attempt to show the tables on the sufferer. That is what consultants name DARVO. Deny. Assault. Reverse Sufferer Offender,” the assertion learn. “Wayfarer has opted to make use of the sources of its billionaire co-founder to situation media statements, launch meritless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the general public’s capacity to grasp that what they’re doing is retaliation in opposition to sexual harassment allegations.”
Justin Baldoni‘s studio filed a brand new lawsuit in opposition to his It Ends With Us costar Blake Vigorous and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, searching for damages of $400 million. In line with the submitting obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, January 16, Vigorous, 37, was “decided to make Baldoni the real-life villain in her story” to avert from her […]
Vigorous’s authorized crew accused Baldoni’s crew of attempting to “shift” the main target to Vigorous and away from Baldoni himself.
“They’re attempting to shift the narrative to Ms. Vigorous by falsely claiming that she seized inventive management and alienated the solid from Mr. Baldoni. The proof will present that the solid and others had their very own damaging experiences with Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer. The proof will even present that Sony requested Ms. Vigorous to supervise Sony’s minimize of the movie, which they then chosen for distribution and was a powerful success,” the assertion learn.
The assertion continued: “Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she needed it, it’s her fault. Their justification for why this occurred to her: look what she was sporting. In brief, whereas the sufferer focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the sufferer. The technique of attacking the lady is determined, it doesn’t refute the proof in Ms. Vigorous’s grievance, and it’ll fail.”
Justin Baldoni and Blake Vigorous. (Photograph by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Photographs)
Baldoni alleged that the feud between him and Vigorous started in Might 2023 when the movie began. He claimed Vigorous created a “takeover technique” whereas they battled for inventive management.
The paperwork embrace emails between Baldoni and Vigorous earlier than filming started, with Baldoni claiming Vigorous “expressed heat gratitude” for the preparation however believed she would try to realize management.
Baldoni alleged that Vigorous hadn’t read It Ends With Us. The lawsuit reads, “she even tried to Google the colour of her character’s hair slightly than decide up the e-book.”
Following the lawsuit, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, shared in a press release to Us, “This lawsuit is a authorized motion primarily based on an awesome quantity of untampered proof detailing Blake Vigorous and her crew’s duplicitous try and destroy Justin Baldoni, his crew and their respective firms by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored data to the media.”
Justin Baldoni, Blake Vigorous Cowl Photographs (2)
UPDATE 1/16/25 at 12:43 p.m. ET: Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios filed a $400 million lawsuit in opposition to It Ends With Us costar Blake Vigorous and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Thursday, January 16. Within the 179-page submitting obtained by Us Weekly, Baldoni claimed that Vigorous was “decided” to make him a “real-life villain in her story.” […]
The assertion continued, “It’s clear primarily based on our personal all out willingness to supply 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 is not going to win and will definitely remorse. Blake Vigorous was both severely misled by her crew or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality.”
“Ms. Vigorous won’t ever once more be allowed to proceed to use precise victims of actual harassment solely for her private fame achieve on the expense of these with out energy,” the assertion learn. “Let’s not neglect, Ms. Vigorous and her crew tried to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously egocentric causes by means of their very own harmful manipulation of the media earlier than even taking any precise authorized motion. We all know the reality, and now the general public does too. Justin and his crew don’t have anything to cover, paperwork don’t lie.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni for remark.
Blake Lively has responded by way of her authorized crew to Justin Baldoni’s studio submitting a brand new lawsuit in opposition to her, her publicist Leslie Sloan and her husband Ryan Reynolds.
The submitting, obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, January 16, seeks damages of $400 million and accuses Vigorous, 37, of being “decided to make Baldoni the real-life villain in her story” to avert from her alleged “tone-deaf” promotion of It Ends With Us, the movie which Baldoni, 40, and Vigorous labored on collectively. The lawsuit additionally accommodates accusations of civil extortion, defamation, false gentle invasion of privateness among other claims.
Vigorous’s authorized crew hit again on the Baldoni camp’s “determined” technique, sharing a press release with Us Weekly on Thursday, January 16 in response.
“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is one other chapter within the abuser playbook. That is an age-old story: A lady speaks up with concrete proof of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser makes an attempt to show the tables on the sufferer. That is what consultants name DARVO. Deny. Assault. Reverse Sufferer Offender,” the assertion learn. “Wayfarer has opted to make use of the sources of its billionaire co-founder to situation media statements, launch meritless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the general public’s capacity to grasp that what they’re doing is retaliation in opposition to sexual harassment allegations.”
Justin Baldoni‘s studio filed a brand new lawsuit in opposition to his It Ends With Us costar Blake Vigorous and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, searching for damages of $400 million. In line with the submitting obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, January 16, Vigorous, 37, was “decided to make Baldoni the real-life villain in her story” to avert from her […]
Vigorous’s authorized crew accused Baldoni’s crew of attempting to “shift” the main target to Vigorous and away from Baldoni himself.
“They’re attempting to shift the narrative to Ms. Vigorous by falsely claiming that she seized inventive management and alienated the solid from Mr. Baldoni. The proof will present that the solid and others had their very own damaging experiences with Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer. The proof will even present that Sony requested Ms. Vigorous to supervise Sony’s minimize of the movie, which they then chosen for distribution and was a powerful success,” the assertion learn.
The assertion continued: “Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she needed it, it’s her fault. Their justification for why this occurred to her: look what she was sporting. In brief, whereas the sufferer focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the sufferer. The technique of attacking the lady is determined, it doesn’t refute the proof in Ms. Vigorous’s grievance, and it’ll fail.”
Justin Baldoni and Blake Vigorous. (Photograph by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Photographs)
Baldoni alleged that the feud between him and Vigorous started in Might 2023 when the movie began. He claimed Vigorous created a “takeover technique” whereas they battled for inventive management.
The paperwork embrace emails between Baldoni and Vigorous earlier than filming started, with Baldoni claiming Vigorous “expressed heat gratitude” for the preparation however believed she would try to realize management.
Baldoni alleged that Vigorous hadn’t read It Ends With Us. The lawsuit reads, “she even tried to Google the colour of her character’s hair slightly than decide up the e-book.”
Following the lawsuit, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, shared in a press release to Us, “This lawsuit is a authorized motion primarily based on an awesome quantity of untampered proof detailing Blake Vigorous and her crew’s duplicitous try and destroy Justin Baldoni, his crew and their respective firms by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored data to the media.”
Justin Baldoni, Blake Vigorous Cowl Photographs (2)
UPDATE 1/16/25 at 12:43 p.m. ET: Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios filed a $400 million lawsuit in opposition to It Ends With Us costar Blake Vigorous and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Thursday, January 16. Within the 179-page submitting obtained by Us Weekly, Baldoni claimed that Vigorous was “decided” to make him a “real-life villain in her story.” […]
The assertion continued, “It’s clear primarily based on our personal all out willingness to supply 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 is not going to win and will definitely remorse. Blake Vigorous was both severely misled by her crew or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality.”
“Ms. Vigorous won’t ever once more be allowed to proceed to use precise victims of actual harassment solely for her private fame achieve on the expense of these with out energy,” the assertion learn. “Let’s not neglect, Ms. Vigorous and her crew tried to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously egocentric causes by means of their very own harmful manipulation of the media earlier than even taking any precise authorized motion. We all know the reality, and now the general public does too. Justin and his crew don’t have anything to cover, paperwork don’t lie.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni for remark.
