In a move straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, Justin Baldoni and his publicists have sued the New York Times for millions because of the paper’s explosive story on his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively’s claims of sexual harassment and a smear campaign from the Jane the Virgin alum and his flacks.
The over 80-page libel complaint filed in LA Superior Court just hours before 2024 ends accuses the Grey Lady and its journalists of being in league with Lively with a lengthy article that “cherry-picked and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.”
Written in the usual hyperbolic tones that lawyer Bryan Freedman is well known for, the suit tries to taint Livley’s own publicist Leslies Sloane for her past associations with Harvey Weinstein and clutches its pearls over Ryan Reynolds’ stern words to Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios team during an all-hands January 4th meeting.
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