Actress Blake Lively filed a federal lawsuit against director Justin Baldoni, alleging sexual harassment and a campaign to damage her reputation. Lively claims Baldoni and the film's production company engaged in a coordinated scheme to silence her after she and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, raised concerns about Baldoni's and another producer's behavior on set.
director Justin Baldoni and several others tied to the romantic drama on Tuesday, alleging harassment and a coordinated campaign to attack her reputation forThe federal lawsuit was filed in New York just hours after Baldoni and many of the other defendants in Lively's suit suedfor libel for its story on her allegations, saying the newspaper and the star were the ones conducting a coordinated smear campaign.
The plan, the suit said, included a proposal to plant theories on online message boards, engineer a social media campaign and place news stories critical of Lively. Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Lively's lawsuit.But he previously called the same allegations “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious.”
“It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article. To date, Wayfarer Studios, Mr Baldoni, the other subjects of the article and their representatives have not pointed to a single error," the statement said.
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