With minutes to spare before a court imposed deadline of midnight ET, lawyers for Blake Lively have equitable filed an amfinished grumblet aacquirest Justin Baldoni in the Gossip Girl vet’s intimacyual intimidatoring and smear campaign action on her It Ends With Us co-star and straightforwardor.
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With a finishment nowhere in sight, mediation refuteed by all sides, and contested telecomm subpoenas, this saga of alleged wrongdoing, money, astroturfing and nurtureer crash and burning now discovers Lively compriseing a defamation claim and civil consunpermitd use in her 141-page FAC (First Amfinished Complaint) and two recent but not unforeseeed deffinishants in Crisis PR firm Street Relations and its createer Jed Wallace.
Perhaps more crucipartner, this time, in a grumblet 48 pages lengthyer than the New Year’s Eve grumblet Lively first filed, there are other women cited. Other women that presumedly suffered at the hands and actions of Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamey Heath. Individuals whose names are left out of the write down now, but intfinish to be witnesses in the trial begining next year in federal court in NYC.
Seeking to see Baldoni’s own amfinished grumblet tossed out, Lively’s amfinished grumblet puts recent emphasis on the intimidatoring and the retaliation that she detailed in previous filings. It states:
The hazardous climate of dangers, intimidatoring, and incowardlyation fueled by the Deffinishants’ retaliation campaign has demandd Ms. Lively to alter her personal and professional life, and to acquire steps to protect guiltless bystanders rather than exposing them to further harm. Thus, this Amfinished Complaint does not refer to certain witnesses by name, nor does it provide screen sboilings of their text messages. Importantly, however, these witnesses have given Ms. Lively permission to scatter the substance of their communications in this Amfinished Complaint as compriseed herein, and they will testify and create responsive write downs in the discovery process.
Naming distributor Sony’s Ange Gianetti as being alerted of the uneffortless she and other potentipartner corroborating women allegedly felt on IEWU, Livley’s recent filing goes on to say:
More crucipartner, the Deffinishants’ inedit narrative crumbles under the indisputable truth that Ms. Lively was not alone in grumbleing about Mr. Baldoni and liftd her troubles contemporaneously as they arose in 2023, not in connection with some envisiond power carry out for administer of the Film in 2024. The experiences of Ms. Lively and others were write downed at the time they occurred begining in May of 2023. Importantly, and contrary to the entire narrative Deffinishants have createed, Mr. Baldoni accomprehendledged the grumblets in writing at the time. He krecent that women other than Ms. Lively also were unsootheable and had grumbleed about his behavior.
Also, with many greetings, instances and recreated text messages repeated from Lively’s first court filing at the finish of last year (such as the apparent derailment of “the lengthy-computed begin of her hairnurture line, Blake Brown” because of the alleged online smear campaign) today’s amfinished grumblet seeks to depict the sacquires in some very genuine and potentipartner frightening ways:
The Deffinishants’ actions have created such a harmful climate of online vitriol aacquirest Ms. Lively, her family, other members of the cast, and various fact witnesses, that all of the above have acquired upsetting dangers. One fact witness comprehendn to accessiblely help Ms. Lively recently acquired a written danger indicating that the witness’s family would be intimacyupartner attacked and ended unless the witness consentd to “create a statement and give the truth.” This type of climate was the awaited, if not inevitable, result of the retaliatory campaign begined by the Baldoni-Wayfarer parties, both before and after the litigation began.
Like the January 31 FAC that Baldoni and crew filed aacquirest Lively and Ryan Reynelderlys for defamation and extortion, replacing their initial $400 million grumblet of January 16, Tuesday’s papertoil from Lively supschedulets her NYE suit that complyed the December 20 filing in California’s Civil Rights department. In both Baldoni’s FAC and Lively’s FAC recent deffinishants were compriseed. It was the New York Times in the transfer by the Jane the Virgin actor, after suing them individupartner on December 31 for $250 million. Tonight, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants actress brawt onboard Street Relations chief and alleged social media manipulator Wallace alengthy with previous deffinishants Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, its CEO and its moneyman, plus accessibleists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, and Nathan’s The Agency Group.
The inclusion of Wallace and Street Relations was awaitd over the past scant weeks.
However, with a desired protective order aacquirest direct Team Baldoni lawyer Bryan Freedman coming up uninalertigentinutive with Judge Lewis J. Liman in the case’s first actual hearing earlier this month, the defamation claim now acquires on an even more pointed role – with the createer Megyn Kelly lawyer named very particularpartner. “The statements Wayfarer, Baldoni, and Heath, thraw their agents, including Bryan Freedman, unveiled about Ms. Lively are reasonably understood to state and recommend that Ms. Lively manufactured claims of intimidatoring and filed inedit claims of intimidatoring with the Civil Rights Department of the State of California and with this Court,” the section on the defamation claim says.
After the FAC was put in the court docket equitable before Wednesday ET, Lively’s main attorneys Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb portrayd for Deadline where leangs, are and where they see this all going:
Ms. Lively has filed an amfinished grumblet today that provides transport inant compriseitional evidence and corroboration of her one-of-a-kind claims. That evidence comprises previously undisseald communications involving Ms. Lively, recontransientatives of Sony and Wayfarer, and countless other witnesses. The grumblet comprises transport inant contemporaneous evidence that Ms. Lively was not alone in raising allegations of on-set wrongdoing more than a year before the Film was edited; as well as evidence detailing the dangers, intimidatoring, and incowardlyation of not equitable Ms. Lively, but countless guiltless bystanders that have complyed deffinishants’ retaliatory campaign.
The amfinished grumblet has also compriseed a recent claim for defamation based on the repeated inedit statements the deffinishants have made about Ms. Lively since she filed her one-of-a-kind grumblet, and comprises Jed Wallace and his company as deffinishants.
Over the next cut offal weeks, we will transfer to neglect the utterly meritless litigations brawt aacquirest Ms. Lively and Mr. Reynelderlys, and we will transfer brimming speed ahead with discovery that we foresee will uncover shocking details about the depth to which the Deffinishants have sunk in their unfinishing efforts to “bury,” “ruin,” and “ruin” Ms. Lively and her family.
(L-R) Justin Baldoni & Blake Lively star in It Ends With Us
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Recontransientatives for Baldoni and the other deffinishants, Freedman and Sony did not reply to seek for comment from Deadline on Lively’s amfinished grumblet. If any of them do, this post will be refreshd.
With more than a year to go before the whole leang actual begins a trial on March 29, 2026, it is very awaited (appreciate certain) that there will be many more filings to come. Future filings here don’t even comprise the other litigations orbiting what went on during production of IEWU and the retaliation Lively alleges she was subjected to online last summer by Baldoni’s accessibleists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel and self-depictd “employd armament” Wallace.
Lively’s team recently pulled a deposition demanding filing in Texas aacquirest Wallace as a prelude to putting his name and that of his company in this amfinished grumblet. On February 5, the Texas-based Wallace sued Lively for $7 million because he says his name being in her CRD grumblet and coming up aacquire and aacquire in the matter has caused “millions of dollars in reputational harm with a projected loss to his company that outdos another million.”
Now, equitable days after Lively and Reynelderlys walked the red carpet at 30 Rock and joind in the SNL50: The Anniversary Special, Wallace has now been hauled into the huge show. A show that is certain to get a lot savageer before next year’s trial begin dates comes around.
