Justin Baldoni sues Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds for $400M after actress accused him of sexual harassment
Justin Baldoni sued Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400,000,000 following the actress' sexual harassment lawsuit. Baldoni and Lively seemingly had issues filming "It Ends With Us."
Justin Baldoni sued Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for civil extortion, defamation and other actions in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Baldoni accused Lively of tormenting him, his family and colleagues in a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York and obtained by Fox News Digital. The actor requested a jury trial and a judgment of $400,000,000.
Lively sued Baldoni first for sexual harassment after the two starred together in the Colleen Hoover-adapted film, "It Ends With Us." Since the premiere of the movie in August, Lively has also accused Baldoni of participating in a deliberate smear campaign to ruin her reputation.
However, Baldoni â along with Wayfarer Studios, Jamey Heath and others â paint a different story in the actor's own lawsuit.
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"Plaintiffs now have no choice but to fight back armed only with the truth â and the mountain of concrete evidence disproving Livelyâs allegations," the court docs read.
"Heartbreakingly, a film that Baldoni envisioned years ago would honor the survivors of domestic violence by telling their story, with the lofty goal of making a positive impact in the world, has now been overshadowed beyond recognition solely as a result of Livelyâs actions and cruelty."
Baldoni's legal team claimed Lively has no evidence of a deliberate smear campaign and instead worked to repair her reputation by accusing the actor and others of sexual harassment.
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"But Lively could not tolerate her publicly tainted image for even a moment, and further could not accept that it was entirely of her own making," the lawsuit read. "She needed a scapegoat. And rather than admit and take accountability for her own mishaps, she chose to blame Plaintiffs, in a malicious and unforgivably public manner."
"When she and Reynolds could not force Baldoni and Wayfarer to read a statement she and her representatives prepared, extorting them to âtake accountabilityâ in defense of Livelyâs actions, she lay in wait for months, preparing to publicly attack Baldoni by falsely claiming that he had sexually harassed her."
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Baldoni's legal team included text messages, emails and more as "untampered evidence" backing up the "Jane the Virgin" star's claims.
"This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her teamâs duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media," Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "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," the statement continued. "Letâs 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."
A representative for Lively and Reynolds did not return Fox News Digital's immediate request for comment.
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Lively detailed allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation, intentional affliction of emotional distress, negligence and more made by Baldoni and film producer Jamey Heath in a complaint first filed with the California Civil Rights department and later in federal court.
According to the complaint, obtained by Fox News Digital, the actress convened an "all hands" meeting on Jan. 4, 2024, regarding the alleged behavior of Baldoni and Heath, a meeting which her husband, Reynolds, attended.
"Ms. Lively was forced to address concerns about Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath's misconduct with them directly, and began doing so months before filming began," the complaint reads. "The concerns she raised were not only for herself, but for the other female cast and crew, some of whom had also spoken up."
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Following Lively's lawsuit, Baldoni also sued The New York Times for defamation.
However, Lively's team noted her allegations are "backed by concrete facts."
"This is not a âfeudâ arising from âcreative differencesâ or a âhe said/she saidâ situation," her lawyers told Fox News Digital. "As alleged in Ms. Livelyâs complaint, and as we will prove in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms. Lively for simply trying to protect herself and others on a film set. And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch more attacks against Ms. Lively since her filing."
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