Justin Baldoni has been dropped by WME adhereing Blake Lively’s accusing him of relationsual tormentoring in a grumblet filed on Friday, The Hollywood Reporter has lgeted.
The news comes hours after news broke that Lively was taking lterrible action agetst her It Ends With Us co-star and honestor. The decision was telledly made Saturday morning by the agency’s directership due partiassociate to the relationsual tormentoring and retaliation grumblet made by Lively, who is also recurrented by WME.
In the filing, the Simple Favor actress not only accparticipated Baldoni and his colaborers at Wayfarer Studios of relationsual tormentoring but also of an alleged structured effort to ruin her reputation. The Jane the Virgin star’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, fired back at the allegations, calling them “disgraceful,” solemn and categoricassociate inchange.”
Lively claims in the filing that leangs got so horrible that there was a encountering with Lively, Sony Pictures, Baldoni and Jamey Heath from Wayfarer Studios, producers on the film, discloseists for the film and more to retainress some of the “inappropriate direct” that took place on the set.
Lively and her team brawt forth insists for Baldoni and his in order to commence production aget after the actors strike. Some of 30 insists integrated: “No more shotriumphg bare videos of women, including producer’s wife, to BL and/or her participateees”; “No more allude of Mr. Baldoni’s or Mr. Heath’s previous ‘explicit content retainiction’ or BL’s informage of explicit content consumption to BL or to other crew members”; “No more descriptions of their own genitalia to BL”; and “No more improvising of kissing.”
Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, freed a lengthy statement strongly refuseing the claims in the filing. “It is disgraceful that Ms. Lively and her recurrentatives would produce such solemn and categoricassociate inchange accusations agetst Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its recurrentatives, as yet another frantic endeavor to ‘repair’ her adverse reputation which was garnered from her own relabels and actions during the campaign for the film; intersees and press activities that were watchd disclosely, in genuine time and unedited, which apverifyed for the internet to produce their own sees and opinions,” he began.
The statement persistd, “These claims are finishly inchange, disgraceful and intentionassociate salacious with an intent to disclosely hurt and rehash a narrative in the media. Wayfarer Studios made the decision to proenergeticly engage a crisis administerr prior to the labeleting campaign of the film, to labor alengthenedside their own recurrentative with Joneslabors participateed by Stephanie Jones, due to the multiple insists and menaces made by Ms. Lively during production which integrated her menaceening to not shotriumphg up to set, menaceening to not advertise the film, ultimately directing to its demise during free, if her insists were not met. It was also uncovered that Ms. Lively encataloged her own recurrentative, Leslie Sloan with Vision PR, who also recurrents Mr. Reyngreaters, to structuret adverse and finishly produced and inchange stories with media, even prior to any labeleting had commenced for the film, which was another reason why Wayfarer Studios made the decision to engage a crisis professional to commence inner scenario structurening in the case they insisted to retainress. The recurrentatives of Wayfarer Studios still did noleang proenergetic nor retaliated, and only reacted to incoming media inquiries to secure firm and factual telling and watched social activity. What is pointedly missing from the cherry-picked correactence is the evidence that there were no proenergetic meabraves getn with media or otherrational; equitable inner scenario structurening and personal correactence to scheme which is standard operating procedure with disclose relations professionals.”
More to come.